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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...
    July 07, 2012 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 ...
    June 29, 2012 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...
    June 29, 2012 1 min read
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    Are you in Amsterdam? Stop by booth #30 for a chance to win a license for our new Windows 8 suite

    If you are a developer who uses Microsoft technologies then you probably know that TechEd Europe 2012 is happening right now in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Telerik is there and we are giving away the greatest prize for any .NET developer – a FREE license for our new Windows 8 suite. Currently more than 900 people have visited our booth and there have been some really interesting discussions about Telerik, Win8, XAML, HTML5, and Microsoft’s latest technologies. The feedback for Telerik’s latest product lines has been tremendously positive so far, which really motivates us to continue to provide you guys with...
    June 29, 2012 1 min read
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    Quality Software Development Webinar 19 July

    Have you had problems building the software your customer expects, with a level of quality you’re all proud of? Join me, Phil Japikse, and Chris Eargle on 19 July at 12:00pm EDT for a three hour webinar to help you learn how to avoid wasting time writing things that aren’t needed or wanted, to shorten the feedback loop, improve your project and increase your transparency. You’ll see how to use TeamPulse to start capturing customer ideas and bring them in to your project as great, clear requirements (or stories!). You’ll discover how Test Driven Development, especially with Telerik’s great toolset, ...
    June 28, 2012 1 min read