Hybrid applications are unique because they run in a "browser" but without a server component. They also aren't expected to look and behave like a web application. The unique constraints on hybrid applications require a good code structure in order to be able to productively build maintainable mobile applications.

The Kendo UI Q1 2014 release is here. Powerful, extensible and open; Kendo UI takes another giant leap forward. Check out what's new in Kendo UI Web, Mobile, DataViz and more.

Telerik was at Fluent Conf this week and it was awesome. Here is your conference rundown with pictures, tweets and selfies.

I've often said that as a developer, I get this suspicious feeing that I'm mostly solving the same problem over and over again. We innovate, create new and wonderful technology, and then piece together a new solution for an old problem that has just morphed into a different kind of problem but is really the same problem underneath. At this point, some developer alarm should go off in your head screaming "Burke! If you fix the root of the problem, then it WILL go away!" And you are right - it will. The reason why we can't fix the root, is that the root is what keeps changing.

Interested in getting started with using Kendo UI Mobile with AppBuilder? In this post, Jim Cowart helps you hit the ground running, covering the basics of Kendo UI Mobile like views, transitions, data binding and themes.