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  • Mobile

    Analytics: a turnkey solution for development teams

    Application analytics are one of the most valuable sources of information to a development team because they help measure an application’s usage and runtime performance in a real-world setting. And yet, far too often, development teams choose not to instrument their applications to gather this information.
    October 25, 2013 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Real-Time Reporting with SignalR, Kendo UI DataViz, and Icenium Part 2

    In the first part of this series, we created our SignalR hub and added a simple web form that allowed us to push data to our client apps in real-time. With our server-side code and hub complete, we now need to get into Icenium and create the most important part of our project - the hybrid mobile app. For this exercise we are going to stay inside of Visual Studio and use the new Icenium Extension for Visual Studio.
    October 25, 2013 8 min read
  • Release

    Q3 2013 of Telerik OpenAccess ORM: Multiple Models and More

    Find out what benefits you can get by upgrading to the new version of Telerik OpenAccess ORM. Powerful handling of multiple models, the new Command Timeout setting, better Navigational Property names and a new NuGet package are only a small part of the improvements.
    October 24, 2013 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Visualize Your Windows Store Geospatial Data with RadMap for Windows 8 XAML

    We are happy to announce the immediate availability of the RadMap control that is part of our latest RadControls for Windows 8 XAML Q3 2013 release. The solid control foundation is built with ultimate performance and rich user experience in mind so you can implement your demanding business scenarios with ease.
    October 24, 2013 3 min read
  • Web

    Coming Soon - a Richer HTML5 Testing Experience

    Earlier this year we released Test Studio 2013, and our product team has been working hard on the next release ever since. We'll be showing you some of our upcoming features over the next few weeks, and I'm happy to kick things off by showing a little more love for HTML5. Now, before we look at Test Studio's new HTML5 support, I've got to point out that everything depends on the browsers' support. If your team has been developing HTML5 applications, you're probably already aware of sites like The HTML5 Test and Can I Use - be sure to visit ...
    October 24, 2013 2 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    How To Create Business Cards with QR Codes using RadBarcodeQR and RadRichTextBox

    Create custom business cards with QR codes easily using RadBarcodeQR and RadRichTextBox.
    October 24, 2013 5 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    30 Days of TDD – Day 16 – Using Specific Parameters in Stubs

    In a previous post we created a relatively simple stub to stand in for our OrderDataService. Our current stub is setup to return a canned result without worrying too much about what the value of our input parameter is. There are cases where a mock like this acceptable, but in most cases you’ll find that you want to have a specific response for a specific parameter. Luckily that’s not very difficult and today we will create a stub with that exact ability.
    October 23, 2013 12 min read
  • Mobile

    How to Create an App ID for Your iOS App

    In this post, Jim Cowart explains an an iOS App ID is, and how to create one using the iOS developer portal.
    October 23, 2013 2 min read
  • Productivity

    The Truth About Agile | Top 30 Agile Myths- BUSTED

    Agile is not suitable for fixed bid projects Before looking at this myth, it’s important to define “Fixed bid projects”. Does this mean fixed scope, schedule, and cost? History has proven that software projects of any significance in size or complexity cannot be accurately estimated well. What is more, according to CHAOS reports 24% of all projects fail and 44% are significantly challenged2. Regardless of the project management methodology, attempting to fix all three does not have a high probability of success. Something has to give – whether it’s adding resources, cutting scope, or moving the delivery date. As described ...
    October 23, 2013 2 min read
  • Web

    The Difference Between kendo.bind And kendo.init

    Curious as to know when to use kendo.bind vs kendo.init? The answer may surprise you...
    October 23, 2013 6 min read