We are now on to Part 2 of this three part series on ways to increase or protect the profitability of the projects we manage. In Part 1 we examined the obvious area of budget management and ways we can handle the project budget, analysis and forecast to protect and possibly even increase the project’s profitability. In this Part 2, I’m going to discuss resource management and ways we can best manage our resource to keep our projects as profitable as possible. In Part 2 of this three-part series on increasing project profitability, we’ll examine the role of effective resource ...

Using Icenium Everlive for data storage and user authentication is easy. Everlive won't persist your access token for user authentication, between browser refreshes, though. Using a simple combination of Everlive, Kendo UI's MVVM, and a local storage dataSource adapter, you can easily persist the data between refreshes to ensure the user stays logged in.

Through experience I’ve found that project success is usually determined by one or more of three factors – on time delivery, on budget delivery, and overall customer satisfaction (which is often based somewhat on the other two factors and many other things we may or may not be in control of).

Whether your business is producing a healthy profit or is striving to survive, a relevant question will always be: What should we do next with our software products? Should we retire functionality or complete the application? Should we improve usability? Maybe add new functionality? We have the answer.

As a developer it is most likely to find yourself in the need to implement a searching functionality in your application. Most of the available search box controls for WPF and Silverlight have amazing built-in virtualization and a good set of available search modes but what they most likely don't have is an easy to set custom result populating mechanisms. In this blog post I will demonstrate how to create a custom result populating mechanism with the use of the RadAutoCompleteBox control.