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    Easy application layout with Twitter Bootstrap

    You have probably seen all these nifty Twitter Bootstrap style applications popping up. You know, the ones with the black header menus and blue buttons? If you haven't seen or heard of Twitter Bootstrap, it's a base CSS / UI framework that makes laying out your...
    January 19, 2013
  • Productivity Debugging

    Fiddler ImageView Enhancements

    The latest Fiddler beta v2.4.2.5 (targeting .NET2 or .NET4) includes several improvements to the ImageView Response Inspector. While its appearance remains mostly unchanged, the new version provides much more insight into the metadata often included with image files. Read on for more details.
    January 18, 2013
  • Mobile

    Adding and Editing Records with AppBar Flyouts

    In my last post, I showed how to simple it is to remove commands from the user interface and place them into the AppBar. The commands for editing records and adding new records are both hardcoded to which record gets edited and what data gets added. That is not a very user friendly way to edit/add records. Windows 8 applications can take advantage of Flyouts for tasks such as getting data into an application, presenting a screen for editing a record, and any other interaction with the user. A Flyout is essentially a mini-form or user control (neither term is technically correct, but you get the point, I believe). Instead of swapping the currently displayed content with another screen for editing records and another screen for adding records, using Flyouts can help keep your users focused on their data and the task at hand.
    January 18, 2013
  • Mobile

    Windows 8–Conference Buddy. Reading JSON From A File

    I’d like to have a page in Conference Buddy that lists all the customer contacts. We’re currently writing these contacts to file in JSON format. My goal for today is to read that file and populate a ListView with the contents, using data binding.
    January 18, 2013
  • Mobile

    Windows 8 AppBars in WinJS

    Microsoft’s guidance for Windows 8 applications is based on content over chrome. Development styles for prior versions of Windows often included navigation controls, buttons, tabs, and other non-content related items intermixed with the data, often obscuring the information that the application was trying to convey. This isn’t to say that we were all doing it wrong all of these years, as there wasn’t a mechanism (or even guidance) in place to provide an alternative.
    January 18, 2013
  • Mobile

    Windows 8 GridView, ListView and SnapView

    Every Windows 8 application must also support SnapView, in which your application is allocated 320x768 pixels – that is, your application is squeezed into a relatively thin sliver on the left or right of the screen. GridView leaves much to be desired in SnapView and the common solution is to hide your GridView and to display the same data in a ListView, which works well in those dimensions as it scrolls vertically.
    January 17, 2013
  • Productivity Debugging

    Fiddler ImageView GeoLocation

    In my previous post, I discussed the recent enhancements to Fiddler’s ImageView extension that expose metadata about image files under inspection. My initial goal in exposing metadata was to help you optimize the size of images in order to build faster websites. However, in some cases the privacy implications of such metadata can be of far greater concern.
    January 17, 2013
  • Mobile

    Deploying Applications to iOS Devices Without Provisioning First

    One of the capabilities of Icenium that makes testing your mobile apps simpler is the ability to deploy applications in development to iOS devices without the need to provision them thought Apple’s developer portal, which requires a $99/year developer account. While getting a device provisioned...
    January 17, 2013
  • Release

    Latest Online Support Resources (01/16/2013)

    Latest Online Support Resources (01/16/2013)
    January 17, 2013
  • Release

    Announcing the Kendo UI Q3 2012 Service Pack

    Over the last few months, we’ve been working hard to deliver you an awesome Q1 2013 release (which you can read more about, here). Along the way, we figured today was time to drop a Service Pack for Q3 2012, which includes a bunch of new...
    January 16, 2013