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TechEd India Recap

Last week I spoke at TechEd India and the Visual Studio 2010 launch. It was a great event with over 3,000 attendees, far more than attended the Visual Studio launch in Las Vegas! Senior vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, S. Somasegar, did an awesome keynote. I did three sessions: Building applications with OData Building Line of Business Applications with WCF and Silverlight 4.0 Building Silverlight Business Applications with RIA Services Something happened to me that never happened before in my 13+ years of being a professional international speaker: I lost my voice! I was in Indonesia the week before and picked up a small bug and had...

by Steve Forte
April 22, 2010 2 min read Share
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Speaking at the Great Indian Developer Summit this week

This week I will be speaking at the Great Indian Developer Summit in Bengaluru, India for the second year in a row. My sessions are: GIDS.Net (Tuesday) Data Warehousing Made Easy What's New in SQL Server 2008 R2 (PowerPivot is shown here as well!) Sharing Business Logic between Silverlight and .NET GIDS.Web (Wednesday) Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 4.0 (RIA Services) GIDS.Seminar (Friday) Agile Tools and Teams In addition to my talks, Telerik will also staff a booth and have demos of all of our products and some tee shirts to give away. I will also be at the booth all day to answer your questions on my talks. See you at GIDS! Technorati Tags: Telerik,Agile,Silverlight,PowerPivot

by Steve Forte
April 20, 2010 1 min read Share
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Telerik first and great TechEd India experience

Even though that the Icelandic Volcano is now blocking all the EU airports, here in Bengaluru, everyone is preparing for the Great Indian Developer Summit and the things are going to get hectic again for the Telerik crew. We will have our booth ready by the end of the day and tomorrow we will be expecting all of the visitors to drop by and have some talk with us. We will also give away our so famous T-Shirts. Now that Teched India is in the past, we will summarize our experience at the booth. We had a tremendous amount of people stopping by and asking...

by Jim Holmes
April 19, 2010 2 min read Share
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The community chooses the three best projects in the Telerik Reporting Contest

Three months ago we decided it was just the right time to test the creativity of our customers in developing projects with the help of Telerik Reporting. We wanted to see how our solution integrated into their operations and helped them achieve their business goals. This community initiative attracted a lot of interest and we received quite a few submissions, of which only 7 made it to the finals. We would like to take this opportunity and thank all of you who took part in the challenge! We are pleased to present the winners chosen by the community to win the...

by Vassil Petev
April 14, 2010 2 min read Share
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Riding waves

While I typically refer to our journey of the last 8 years or so as a roller-coaster ride, another analogy is better suited: that of surfing. The waves of opportunity keep coming in one after the other and we, as one of the surfers, are enjoying them. Surfing and business, like everything else, starts with many difficult and painful moments. In the beginning, you barely hang yourself on the board, you fall off too often, you hit yourself. After a lot of practice and perseverance, you start riding small waves. And then you constantly go for bigger and bigger ones....

by Vassil Terziev
April 12, 2010 4 min read Share