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  • Productivity Testing

    A Tester’s Place in an Agile World

    Agile, agile, agile. In the software development world, the word’s becoming impossible to ignore. Every day sees another dev team decide to "go Agile," and technology research and advisory companies are placing "agile development practices" as one of the four key components in their analysis.  Often, this leaves testers and managers in a traditional "QA" department looking around wondering just what their new role will be. Right after "Agile means no documentation," one of the next most-frequently seen myths is that Agile teams only need to include a product owner and some developers — no testers required — the developers ...
    September 06, 2013 3 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    No Excel? No Problem with RadSpreadsheet for WPF and Silverlight

    Most businesses require Excel in order to operate. They use excel for a variety of reasons, but the most common is organizing and manipulating data. Most businesses are also faced with increased license cost or the inability to install Excel on a machine. RadSpreadsheet handles all of these issues as it is a control that allows editing tabular data utilizing a variety of cell formatting options, styles and themes. In today’s post, we will explore RadSpreadsheet from scratch and walk you through step-by-step how to use it in your next line-of-business application.
    September 05, 2013 5 min read
  • Web

    Binding Kendo UI Widgets In A Backbone.View

    It's not terribly difficult to get a Kendo UI control in to a Backbone.View. I've written about this before, and I do it a lot. Sure, there are a few little things you need to know about - like when to initialize the control - but for the most part, getting the widgets in place is easy. Once you have the Kendo UI Widgets in place, though, things get to be a little more ... interesting. If you want to respond to standard DOM events within a Backbone.View, you can just use the events configuration. But if you want to handle events that comes from the Kendo UI widgets directly, you would be in for writing some extra code in your view to manually wire this up. Until now.
    September 05, 2013 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Creating A Mobile Site For Your SQL Server Data

    Mobile sites are a fantastic way to expose your enterprise data to mobile users within your organization. They are fast and are built with technology you already know. Using MVC 4, we can leverage server-side code to build static pages that result in fast and secure enterprise mobile applications.
    September 05, 2013 18 min read
  • Mobile

    Using the ChildBrowser Plugin in Icenium

    In this post Rob Lauer discusses how to use the ChildBrowser plugin when developing hybrid mobile apps with Icenium.
    September 04, 2013 5 min read
  • Release

    RadControls for WPF and Pluralsight Team Up

    Learn how to build slick apps fast with Telerik RadControls for WPF and Pluralsight. Download and install a trial of RadControls for WPF and receive unlimited free access to the whole Pluralsight catalogue for 14 days.
    September 03, 2013 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Project Scope, Schedule, Resources – Pick Two

    In a perfect world we could have anything we want. And that goes with our professional perfect world as well. And in terms of project management, that would mean we could pick what we manage, when we manage, who we manage, what customers we manage projects for, how we manage, what processes we follow and to whom we report project information. Total freedom. As an independent consultant, you get some of those freedoms, but you are still accountable and if you think otherwise, then you’ll soon find yourself with lots of time on your hands and no clients to perform ...
    September 03, 2013 4 min read
  • Productivity

    Improve Agile Project Planning by Involving the Whole Team

    Unlike traditionally run projects which are planned by an “expert,” Agile planning should be done with the entire team participating. Agile encourages group participation in all forms of planning and estimation. Instead of one person following a linear process of assessing requirements and project constraints, then producing a plan designed to drive schedule, budget, and resources to deliver the end project, the whole team is engaged.
    August 31, 2013 2 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    Take full control of your projects with RadGanttView for WinForms

    An introduction to using RadGanttView for WinForms. Learn how to track and manipulate a simple project.
    August 30, 2013 4 min read