Agile is just a series of waterfalls There’s a lot more to being agile than just shortening the cycle. The waterfall process is defined by stages (or tollgates) that happen in serial - Requirements, Design, Construction, Verification, and then Maintenance. Agile incorporates all of these tasks in parallel, with a focus on collaboration, rapid feedback loops and the embracing of change. Each story (or item of value) moving through an agile queue can be labeled with similar states from waterfall. This does not make the sprint mini-waterfalls. Since the transitions are at the feature/story level (and not at the project ...

The Q3 2013 release introduces a major improvement in the Telerik Data Storage for Windows 8 Javascript SDK - schema support. The schema enforces data constraints, validates input data and enables the creation of SQL indices for improved query performance. This blog post gives an overview of the new schema support in Telerik Data Storage, which, we believe, should be your preferred local data provider for your Windows 8 applications.

Yesterday we had our 3rd quarterly release for Kendo UI’s 2013 year, and was it ever a good one! We nailed down a huge update to nearly every part of Kendo UI this round, all along our theme of 3 pillars: Pillar 1: Responsive (Kendo UI Widgets). Pillar 2: Adaptive (Grid and Scheduler). Pillar 3: Modern (UI Dimensions). There’s a lot of great updates to an already amazing suite of resources, including the introduction of our new feline overlord, the GeoKitteh!

Express is a lightweight and minimalistic framework for building web applications on Node. But how does it hold up under some very basic user authentication and security requirements? in this article, we'll take a look at how to implement a registration and login flow using Express and Everlive.

Quick feedback is paramount in the implementation of any UI. Studies have shown that 100ms is the maximum delay for an interface to feel instantaneous to the user. Despite this, the mobile web is plagued by a sweeping feedback problem - a 300ms delay after you touch anything. This delay is one of the most prominent reasons that HTML based web apps are considered "sluggish" by many users. In this article we'll discuss why the delay exists, what browser vendors are working on to make the problem go away, and what you can do to workaround the issue right now.