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    Join RadControls for Metro online launch. Win a Windows 8 Surface tablet or a Telerik license.

    Windows 8 brings up new opportunities for businesses and opens up new horizons for developers. Targeting enterprise and consumer apps, driving convergence between the tablet and PC market, Windows 8 is an opportunity to greatly extend the reach of your apps. Whether you are planning to build line of business apps or apps for the Windows store you surely need tools to make you more productive and to help you achieve more with less.   Join RadControls for Metro online launch to get to know the first 3rd party UI suite for building Windows 8 apps. What’s more, you’ll get a chance to...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
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    Hardware is the New Software

    I’m a software guy. While I am more than comfortable rooting and flashing a custom ROM onto my wife’s Galaxy S III, I need help setting up a printer. Lucky for me, my career’s arc also coincided with the rise of software. Back when I graduated university oh so many moons ago, software was literally rocket science. I entered the industry at the cusp of the transition from the mainframe/minicomputer eras to the client/server era. When I started coding at a Wall Street firm in the early 1990s, software was controlled by “men in white coats” in the mainframe room. I use to send jobs to CICS via...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
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    Ten Years of the Imagine Cup

    The Imagine Cup is a worldwide software design student competition sponsored by Microsoft. Students are given a theme at the beginning of the school year and form teams in their university to build a project that is they can bring to market. The competition is about business viability as much as using the latest super cool technology. So students have to be the right blend of entrepreneur and geek. The competition has students compete in regional competitions and then have to win the right to represent their country in the worldwide finals. Last year the winner was “Team Hermes” from Ireland and they went on to start a business...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
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    Congrats to Jim Holmes for Being One of the Best @TechEd’s Speaker Idol

    Every year TechEd’s Speaker Idol gives entrants a chance to win a highly coveted speaking slot at Microsoft's TechEd conference. Contestants have to create a five minute presentation which they deliver on stage in front of four judges and large crowds in the main expo hall. The judges provide feedback and determine a winner and runner up in each of three heats. The winners and top runner up all advance to the finals. The winner of the contest gets a speaking slot at the following year's conference. Our Test Studio Evangelist Jim Holmes spoke on something near and dear to ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
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    Tweet to Win a Ten Year Anniversary SWAG Pack and Ultimate Collection License

    In honor of celebrating Telerik’s ten year anniversary, the community team is giving out one ten year anniversary SWAG Pack and Ultimate Collection license every Friday during the month of July! Want in on this celebration? All you have to do is answer our Friday morning twitter question asked between 9-10am EST in July using hash tag #telerik10year to be entered each week. The winner will be randomly selected on each Friday in July at 3pm EST. Be sure to follow @Telerik so you don’t miss it! Wondering what a ten year anniversary SWAG Pack includes?  Well, it includes all sorts of cool limited...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read