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Announcing the Kendo UI Q2 2013 Service Pack
Over the last few months, we’ve been working hard to deliver you an awesome Q3 2013 release (which you can read more about, here). Along the way, we figured today was good time to drop a Service Pack for Q2 2013, which includes a bunch of new features and a boatload of fixes. In this blog post, I’ll highlight a few of things we’ve added in this release.May 27, 2021 3 min read -
Productivity Testing
No, Grumpy Testers Don’t Have Cooties (Or, Why Devs Should Talk to Testers)
Yesterday I wrote about things testers can learn from developers. Today I’d like to cover the flipside of that picture: what developers can learn from testers. Yes, there’s a significant amount of knowledge that can flow the other way, too! Developers can learn many things from testers that will help the team be more productive and ship better value to the customers. Unfortunately, devs will have to get past some stereotypes about testers. Too often testers get viewed as the angry, overly critical people who lose sight of important aspects of a project. Like focusing on shipping versus endless ...May 27, 2021 5 min read -
Productivity Testing
30 Days of TDD: Day Five – Make Your Code SOLID
In the previous two posts we started our practice of TDD with a simple example of a requirement, a couple of test cases and tests to match. We implemented the code necessary to make those tests pass. Along the way we discussed some of the tools we’ll be using going forward, including NUnit and JustCode. In this post I’ll be discussing the SOLID principals and how they can help with your practice of TDD and help you write better software in general. -
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Productivity
The Importance of Prioritizing and Sizing Your Backlog for Agile Planning
Prioritized and Sized Backlog For agile planning to work, you must have a prioritized and sized (estimated) backlog. A prioritized backlog is simply a list of work that needs to get done that is ordered by priority. Essentially, the work at the top of the list is the most important and should be done first. In many cases, customers have a difficult time prioritizing lists of features, however, this makes the prioritized backlog even more important to produce. Another requirement of this backlog is that each of the items must be sized, which is another way of saying that the ...May 27, 2021 4 min read -
Mobile
Easy Custom Kendo UI Mobile Icons With Font Awesome
Kendo UI Mobile ships with a great selection of icons. However, you are probably going to want to add your own. It's easy, and Font Awesome gives you over 361 additional icons to add to your arsenal. Here's how to integrate Font Awesome icons with Kendo UI Mobile.May 27, 2021 9 min read -
Mobile
Source Control Options With Icenium
In this post Steve Tsokev discusses how you can use various git providers with Icenium, and hints at some big news we have coming very soon on Icenium and Visual Studio working together... -
People
You Want Me To Talk To Whom? DEVELOPERS?
In a word, yes. It won’t be easy. You’ll need to learn new terminology. You’ll need to be patient. You’ll likely have to get a bunch of figures on your monitor. Why Collaborate? Why should testers and developers collaborate? It’s a perfectly legitimate question, particularly to those who’ve been in the software industry for a number of years and have seen the coming and going of any number of buzzword fads. Collaboration among members of a team producing software isn’t just a fad. The IT industry is finally moving away from stove piped, separated groups to a much healthier, more ...May 27, 2021 8 min read -
Productivity
3 plus 1 Awesome Features in TeamPulse You Probably Don’t Know About
In the last release we made some major improvements in TeamPulse so it can provide smoother experience on mobile devices. Now it’s even easier to track your work from your iPad or your smartphone. TeamPulse on your tablet We have done a lot of performance and UX improvements for mobile device. As a result you now got a faster board and list view, better search, quick add and activity stream, and more. While you would experience those for yourself, we wanted to share with you some tips and tricks on how to make your life easier when working with TeamPulse ...May 27, 2021 2 min read
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