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  • Web

    IE6 Moving Closer to the Browser Graveyard

    As we say hello to a new year, we get to start with this piece of bright news coming today from Microsoft: IE6 usage in the United States (and Czech Republic, Portugal, Philippines, Ukraine, and Mexico) is now less than 1%. This is a major step towards reaching...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • People

    I’m on .NET Rocks Talking Testing!

    The guys at .NET Rocks were kind enough to have me on their show to talk about testing. It’s always fun to chat with Carl and Richard and I think we had a pretty good discussion around a number of topics I’m particularly passionate about. Check out DNR Show #729 if you’re interested. I hope you find it useful! 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 ...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Web

    Ascendency of HTML5: 2011 Year in Review

    As we count down the final hours of 2011 and prepare to celebrate with family, food, and fun, it's time to look over our shoulder and remember what made the last year important. What events defined 2011? Sure, there are political and sports and entertainment stories...
    May 27, 2021 11 min read
  • People

    Wishing you great health in 2012. For everything else, there is … Telerik

    It gets quiet around the office over the holidays. I like to use this time to reflect on the year behind us, both from the industry perspective, as well as from the Telerik perspective. It's the only 5 days out of the 365 in the year when we are not in a turbulent whirlwind of activity. From an industry perspective, 2011 was pretty dynamic and we saw some really powerful trends pick up steam: Cloud The proliferation of cloud computing. Every solution needs to have a cloud back-end. More and more of our information is starting to live...
    May 27, 2021 6 min read
  • Mobile

    Setup Your PhoneGap Development Environment On Mac

    Over the holiday weekend I had the opportunity to take a project that I have been working on for the web and see if I could port it directly to a native app on iOS.  Now your first thought is probably, “Don’t you have better things...
    May 27, 2021 6 min read
  • Productivity

    Need to have a Cross Project Perspective?

    Our customers have been asking us for some way to have visibility across a number of projects at the same time. We also think this is a great idea!!! For that reason, we’ve dedicated our next release (targeted toward the end of January 2012) to providing cross-project views to our customers. Before we started development, we really wanted to understand “who” would want such views – overwhelmingly, customers have told us that cross project views would be great for team members as well as roles such as the development manager, whose responsibility is to govern many projects at the same ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity

    5 Agile Project Management Techniques You Can Start Using Today

    “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain Mark Twain wasn’t a Software Development manager in any way; however, his words still resonate very accurately when it comes to how you can get started adopting Agile project management techniques. Here are the top 5 practices you can use TODAY regardless of your situation or environment. 1.Don’t call it “Agile” – The term Agile seems to have become fatigued or simply over/misused. In some organizations it ...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Release

    What’s New And Improved In JustCode Q3 2011 SP1

    Hot on the heels of the eagerly anticipated 2011 Q3 release of Telerik JustCode we publish its Service Pack. Our main goal was to improve performance and memory consumption but without forgetting about adding new functionalities and fixing the pending issues, as for example improving the existing code templates. If you want to be up to date with all that is added to JustCode, please visit our What’s New page. Test Runner With this release we introduce support for NUnit data driven tests. Now you can enhance your unit tests by using these attributes: TestCaseSource Combinatorial Sequential Pairwise Repeat Also you will see that we have made changes to the...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    RadControls for Silverlight 5 + SP1 Officially Released!

    Hello everyone, Santa came early this week with RadControls for Silverlight 5 and the Q3 2011 Service Pack 1! Just last week I blogged that we will be releasing our Silverlight 5 build of RadControls shortly. I am pleased to announce that it is currently available to download right now by heading to your client account and selecting RadControls for Silverlight. This is built against Silverlight 5 and has passed all our Q/A checks for use in production applications.  We have however, noticed some quirks that made it through to the SL5 runtime from Microsoft (including the RadRichTextBox  wizard for SL...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Adding the “Pinch-to-zoom” feature to your pictures with RadSlideView for Windows Phone

    We are most excited to announce the immediate availability of our Q3 2011 Service Pack 1 release of RadControls for Windows Phone. Together with all the bug fixes and improvements, we also managed to add several cool new features in our controls. LiveTileHelper, Date/Time pickers Step property, Radar charts and financial indicators as well as the much requested pinch-to-zoom functionality for RadSlideView showing pictures. The pinch-to-zoom gesture is well known and most of the users are familiar with it. More, people will expect it from any application that displays pictures in a gallery. Well, no need to implement your own gesture handling; it is all...
    December 22, 2011 2 min read