It gets quiet around the office over the holidays. I like to use this time to reflect on the year behind us, both from the industry perspective, as well as from the Telerik perspective. It's the only 5 days out of the 365 in the year when we are not in a turbulent whirlwind of activity. From an industry perspective, 2011 was pretty dynamic and we saw some really powerful trends pick up steam: Cloud The proliferation of cloud computing. Every solution needs to have a cloud back-end. More and more of our information is starting to live...

Over the holiday weekend I had the opportunity to take a project that I have been working on for the web and see if I could port it directly to a native app on iOS.  Now your first thought is probably, “Don’t you have better things...

Our customers have been asking us for some way to have visibility across a number of projects at the same time. We also think this is a great idea!!! For that reason, we’ve dedicated our next release (targeted toward the end of January 2012) to providing cross-project views to our customers. Before we started development, we really wanted to understand “who” would want such views – overwhelmingly, customers have told us that cross project views would be great for team members as well as roles such as the development manager, whose responsibility is to govern many projects at the same ...

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain Mark Twain wasn’t a Software Development manager in any way; however, his words still resonate very accurately when it comes to how you can get started adopting Agile project management techniques. Here are the top 5 practices you can use TODAY regardless of your situation or environment. 1.Don’t call it “Agile” – The term Agile seems to have become fatigued or simply over/misused. In some organizations it ...

Hot on the heels of the eagerly anticipated 2011 Q3 release of Telerik JustCode we publish its Service Pack. Our main goal was to improve performance and memory consumption but without forgetting about adding new functionalities and fixing the pending issues, as for example improving the existing code templates. If you want to be up to date with all that is added to JustCode, please visit our What’s New page. Test Runner With this release we introduce support for NUnit data driven tests. Now you can enhance your unit tests by using these attributes: TestCaseSource Combinatorial Sequential Pairwise Repeat Also you will see that we have made changes to the...