You are a business analyst charged with understanding the retail market. You’ve decided to create an application that will display the relative revenues for the key stores in your district.  Obtaining the data is easy, but you’d like a graphic representation of the revenue volume for each of the key stores.  Start by storyboarding your application.  It will be a single page for now, just a prompt and a graph, In examining this storyboard you notice that you have a linear scale on the y axis and a categorical scale on the x axis.  This will be important when  you are...

With this post I will show you how to consume Visual Studio 2012 LightSwitch OData services to enable server sorting, filtering, paging, etc. for your custom LightSwitch component.

There are many misconceptions among developers and development managers about refactoring. Perhaps a consultant used refactoring as an excuse to spend needless cycles reading blogs, or maybe a “refactoring” was blamed for a large swath of bugs found in a release. Regardless of the source, there are development shops that cower in fear or scream in terror when the word “refactoring” is uttered aloud. The problem is they were frightened by something other than refactoring. I hang out with developers around the globe at conferences, user groups, and sometimes just to grab a bite to eat. I enjoy discussing code and long...

Are you in the Nashville, TN area the morning of 21 September? Please consider joining me, Phil Japikse, and Burke Holland for a Breakfast at Telerik event! You’ll get a free light breakfast (and coffee!), then be able to sit in on three sessions covering writing great requirements, building solid web UI automation tests, and determining whether or not to chose HTML 5 or Silverlight for your next project. The point of these morning breakfast events is to get in, have a bite to eat (and coffee!), learn something useful, then get out and back to your office in time ...