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  • Productivity Testing

    Top 13 Reasons to Love Automated Testing as We Leave 2013

    As 2013 is closed out and we move into the new year, it’s worthwhile going back a year and taking a look at some of the advances we’ve made in automated testing with Test Studio.  Here are  thirteen things that were noteworthy about Test Studio in 2013: We let you capture HTTP traffic directly with Fiddler, and bring that into Test Studio as an important part of your test scripts.  We continue to develop Fiddler to provide testers and other IT professionals with the best tools for capturing, analyzing, and using HTTP traffic. Colleague Jim Holmes presents five things ...
    January 03, 2014 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Adding Icons and Splash Screens To Your PhoneGap / Icenium Projects

    Adding icons and splash screens to a PhoneGap/Cordova project has always been a bit tricky for developers. Each platform has its own file formats, image dimensions, and conventions - such as how the files are named. In this article I'll attempt to demystify how to create and add images to your projects. We'll look both at how to add images to PhoneGap applications created through its CLI, as well as how to add images to Icenium projects.
    January 03, 2014 7 min read
  • Mobile

    PhoneGap/Apache Cordova Lifecycle Events

    As you begin writing hybrid mobile apps using Icenium, one of the things you should know about early on are the "lifecycle events" that are a core part of PhoneGap/Apache Cordova. These events are emitted on the document and provide critical hooks ("deviceready", for example) for when your application behavior should execute. In this post we'll take a brief look at the most important/often-used lifecycle events.
    January 01, 2014 5 min read
  • People

    What are your predictions for 2014 – See what the Telerik has to say!

    It is that time of year again when the media and analyst community start putting out a plethora of resolutions and predictions for the coming year. Whether it’s the typical "diet" resolution or something a bit far-fetched, people love to know what others are thinking, planning and the like. That is why we’ve asked Telerik leaders to voice their opinions for 2014. Some talked personally, some talked professionally, but all offered some good food for thought.
    January 01, 2014 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Store and Share Settings in Windows 8 HTML/WinJS Apps

    Storing as well as sharing app settings between devices is just a few steps away.
    December 30, 2013 7 min read
  • Web

    Creating Custom Application Events in WinJS

    Create custom application events for Windows 8 HTML applications.
    December 29, 2013 5 min read
  • Desktop

    Setting HTML Styles with Binding in Windows 8 WinJS Apps

    This post show how to use data binding on styles and other non text elements in WinJS
    December 27, 2013 7 min read
  • Mobile

    Cross Window Communication With Cordova's InAppBrowser

    Cordova's InAppBrowser plugin does as its name implies: opens a new browser window within the current app. This gives you the powerful ability to access web content without needing to embed it within the app itself. While Cordova provides plenty of options to configure how this browser works, there are no built in APIs that let you directly pass data back and forth between the app and the InAppBrowser window. In this article we'll take a look at a workaround to make this possible.
    December 24, 2013 5 min read
  • Web

    Building a Full Stack AutoComplete Widget with Java and Kendo UI

    Anyone that has ever done a web search is familiar with autocomplete behavior. But actually developing these controls has a number of non-trivial technical challenges. Where do you get the options from? Do you specify those options on the client or load them server-side? Do you load all options at once or as the user types? Kendo UI's AutoComplete widget gives you the hooks to make all these implementations possible. In this article we'll build a few Java-backed AutoComplete widgets to explore the best way to structure the autocomplete controls you need to build. We'll start with a small hardcoded list, and scale all the way up a server filtered list with a million options.
    December 20, 2013 9 min read