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What Every Developer Should Learn as Soon as Possible in Their Personal Life

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Hear Jim Holmes talk Testing with Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty, one of Telerik’s great evangelists, had me on his Yet Another Podcast show to talk about, wait for it, testing. Jesse and I cover a lot of things about testing at all levels. It’s a wandering conversation that I think you’ll find entertaining and useful, too. Yet Another Podcast Episode 70: Jim Holmes & Automated Testing. About the author Jim Holmes Jim Holmes has around 25 years IT experience. He is co-author of "Windows Developer Power Tools" and Chief Cat Herder of the CodeMash Conference. He's a blogger and evangelist for Telerik’s Test Studio, an awesome set ...

July 20, 2012 1 min read Share
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[Podcast] Transitioning to Agile with Ted Neward, Jessica Kerr, and Glenn Block

In this episode we continue the discussion with Ted, Jessica, and Glenn while at the CodeMash conference in Sandusky, Ohio, and it’s all about transitioning to agile. How do you get organizational buy in? What are the agile anti-patterns that make agile projects fail? How does an individual get started with agile, including agile software engineering? Additional resources: Bug Tracking in TeamPulse Listen to our previous talk on TDD, BDD, And All of the other DD’s About the guests: Ted Neward Ted is an Architectural Consultant with Neudesic, LLC. He lives out of a suitcase, travels with four laptops, ...

by Phil Japikse
July 18, 2012 2 min read Share
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Wake up call: How to Beat Entrenched, Dominant Competition

This post has little to do with Kendo UI, but after reading another story about Microsoft’s inability to unseat Google’s search dominance, it has me thinking about a very core question that many companies face: how do you beat an entrenched, dominant competitor?This is a very specific...

by Todd Anglin
July 18, 2012 4 min read Share
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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...

by Ina Tontcheva
July 17, 2012 2 min read Share
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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...

by Steve Forte
July 13, 2012 4 min read Share