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    Why I am Starting a Hybrid Development Accelerator

    I often get the question, “why the focus on hybrid development for your accelerator?” This question has come up more and more as Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook’s focus on HTML5/hybrid development was a mistake. As I argued over a year ago on this blog, it is mistake to bet exclusively on native or hybrid since some Apps will call for a native approach and some will call for a hybrid approach. Projects that need maximum performance and hardware interaction will require a native approach (medical scanning/rendering apps and some games come to mind) and projects that require larger reach and very fast time to market require a hybrid...
    September 25, 2012 2 min read
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    Bad code exposed! Do you really know when your code smells?

    I’ve seen really bad code in my day. I have seen it in legacy code bases, code reviews on greenfield projects, and worse: I’ve even seen it in my own code. In fact, I can open up just about any open source project and immediately detect the existence of potentially bad code. I am not bragging… it is not as though I am incredibly gifted or that I have superhuman powers. I’ve experienced enough issues from bad code to intuitively pick up on much of it, and the rest of my knowledge comes from reading books on the subject of writing...
    September 25, 2012 5 min read
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    Smashing Conference Mixes Art History and the Art of Web Development

       Telerik was  proud to be a Gold Sponsor at the very first Smashing Conference this week, held by our friends from Smashing Magazine. The Conference was located in Freiburg, Germany September 17th-19th. According to Wikipedia, the name Freiburg means "fortified town of free citizens". The town was found in 1120  by Konrad and Duke Bertold III of Zähringen as a free market town. Today Freiburg is known as an eco-city, and successfully manages to mix the medieval atmosphere of the region with the modern eco-friendly lifestyle.  The Freiburg Minster gothic cathedral dominates the central square of the city. Right next to it is...
    September 19, 2012 2 min read
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    Five Tips for Accessible Charts with Kendo UI DataViz

    Summary: In this post, I’ll share five practical tips (with code samples and illustrative videos) for making Kendo UI DataViz charts and graphs more accessible. These are things you can quickly and easily do in your own apps today to make it easier for disabled users to...
    September 19, 2012 7 min read
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    Official BASTA! 2012 Windows Phone App Built with Telerik Controls

    If you are in Germany right now, you are probably attending BASTA! 2012 - the largest independent developer conference for Microsoft technologies in the country. With more than 120 exciting lectures, workshops, and sessions, it is an experience to remember. If you are enthusiastic about the conference and you don’t want to miss on any interesting lectures or workshops, then you need to get your hands on the official Windows Phone app of BASTA! 2012 built with Telerik UI controls for Windows Phone development. The app provides you with an overview of all the keynotes and presentations plus a floor plan with...
    September 18, 2012 1 min read