DesignHammer is proud to announce that the Durham Bulls have extended their contract with the company for the 2010 season.

Recently, a mom in the UK received a huge shock when she discovered her 12 year-old son used his savings and her credit card to spend a total of $1,400 playing the Facebook application game Farmville. Here is some advice to parents who want their children to enjoy themselves, but seeking to avoid a surprise smack to the wallet.

Appearing this Tuesday, March 23rd, George Thorogood & the Destroyers will be performing at the Carolina Theatre in Durham.

A competition between Durham's creative finest called the Bull City Blowout begins this year on April 16th.  DesignHammer is one of nine competing agencies to raise money for local nonprofit organization SeeSaw Studios.

The Wall Street Journal posted an interesting article on Changing Face of Social Networks earlier this week, suggesting “five years is a lifetime for the average teenager’s habits,” citing the rise of MySpace, until its eclipse by Facebook two years later as an example. Current research indicates that the trend continues, with facebook usage by 18–24 year-olds diminishing over the last three months.

We recently finished up development on a new Drupal website for Proteus Networks, a Juniper and Cisco network training and consulting company. The main challenge for the new site was to integrate Salesforce (a popular customer relationship management system used by over two million subscribers) with Drupal, the open-source content management system used for the website redesign.