I know that some of you, fellow developers, are enjoying the hot summer days and took well-deserved vacations during this period of the year - spending them by the beach with an icy cocktail in hand and getting bronze tan. And I envy you a little for that :) But here, in the Telerik HQ, the working cycle constantly spins no matter what the odds and the weather are, and the time has come to share with you our AJAX and MVC Q3 2011 plans. AJAX Roadmap (View) Quick highlights Two new controls: Social Share and Org Chart New Metro skin (preview can...

  Back in the days when the first WP7 developer devices were distributed to all enthusiastic developers it became clear that the out-of-the-box scrolling performance delivered by the ListBox control from the toolbox is not satisfying at all. In fact, having some richer data templates and UI virtualization all in one made the control almost unusable which forced many developers to either give up UI virtualization or simply reduce the contents of their templates to boost the scrolling performance and thus improve the end-user experience. Although the Performance Team @ Microsoft have released some nice and helpful hints on how to...

  Back in the days when the first WP7 developer devices were distributed to all enthusiastic developers it became clear that the out-of-the-box scrolling performance delivered by the ListBox control from the toolbox is not satisfying at all. In fact, having some richer data templates and UI virtualization all in one made the control almost unusable which forced many developers to either give up UI virtualization or simply reduce the contents of their templates to boost the scrolling performance and thus improve the end-user experience. Although the Performance Team @ Microsoft have released some nice and helpful hints on how to...

You’ll see Telerik’s Evangelist Carl Bergenhem build an ENTIRE e-commerce application in real time showcasing the capabilities of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX You’ll see how easy it is to take advantage of modern technologies, like jQuery, OData, Azure, HTML5/CSS3 when you use Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX controls You’ll get advanced tips and tricks on how to optimize the performance of your applications Did I say only 3 reasons? In case you give me 30 more seconds of your time, here’s the rest of the deal: At the end of the series not only will the attendees get the sample application’s source code in case they’d like to play...

I’m pretty excited about an upcoming event I’m taking part in  - it’s actually going to be a Q&A panel where myself, Steve Porter, and Phil Japikse will be discussing some of the most difficult aspects of Agile adoption.