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  • People

    Interview with Jim on STP Radio Live

    Tuesday, March 19th, I had the pleasure of appearing on STP Radio Live hosted by Rich Hand. This live blogtalk radio show centers around talking with people who are presenting sessions at upcoming Software Test Professionals conferences. (By the way, that’s a picture of Rich, not me!) Rich invited me to talk about test automation in general, plus we covered what my “Automation Isn’t All Shiny Toys” presentation’s about. We also chatted on the main points of my article at STPCon "3 Common Pitfalls when Functional Testing a Web Application.” Our chat on the show covered ...
    March 22, 2012
  • Release

    Announcing RadControls for Windows Phone Q1 2012 SP1

    Now that Q1 2012 has been out for a while we have managed to gather some very useful feedback from you on the new stuff that we released with it and with Q1 2012 SP1 it’s time to bring it officially to you. Besides the fine tuning of existing functionality, we are really proud to announce one pretty important and powerful new component that can easily make your application shine: RadHubTile:          This component brings the Windows Phone home screen experience directly to your app without much complexity. It not only covers all native Tile behaviors (animations, layouts etc.) but delivers even new...
    March 21, 2012
  • Web

    MVVM / Declarative Initialization And HTML5 Data Attributes

    Since the introduction of Custom Data Attributes in the HTML5 spec, developers have discovered a whole new world of possibilities.  When you combine the ability to store arbitrary information in an HTML element with the power of JavaScript, you get some very interesting alternative development experiences. One of...
    March 21, 2012
  • Release

    RadDiagram Q2.2012 Roadmap

    It was just a month ago when we released the first version of the RadDiagram control/framework and now is time to share with you some plans about the future. We (and our partner and friend - The Orbifold) are very committed to the RadDiagram success and becoming one of the top diagramming frameworks for WPF and Silverlight out there. We will be pushing new features and possibilities as much as possible as well as trying to reach different platforms. Official for Q2 As you already know it is currently in beta state (even we think it is more than a beta) but with the upcoming...
  • People

    Speaking at TechED India this week

    After a successful TechDays Hong Kong the week before last, I am off to Bengaluru today to speak at Tech Ed India 2012! Besides the usual running around and talking with customers, partners, attendees, and MVPs, I’ll be doing three breakout sessions: Wednesday @ 12:15 : Beyond Scrum: Kanban and Software Kaizen This is a slight modification of my Introduction to Kanban talk, here are the slides for that one: Kanban View more PowerPoint from Stephen Forte On Wednesday afternoon at 2:15, I’ll be doing a session on Big Data Processing with SQL Server 2012 and Hadoop. I don’t really have any slides for this one besides a few from MS DPE, I plan...
    March 19, 2012
  • People

    Kendo UI At SxSW Interactive 2012

    It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks around here as we get ready for the Q1 Launch of Kendo UI, but that hasn’t stopped us from venturing out into the community to spread the HTML5 and Kendo UI Love. Last week, Brandon and Burke made the...
    March 19, 2012
  • Desktop WinForms

    Printing with RadScheduler for WinForms in a Nutshell

    As you may already know, Q1 2012 RadControls for WinForms brought to you one much requested feature- native printing support for RadGridView and RadScheduler. Utilizing its capabilities it is as easy as pie to send the data from your control to a printer by calling a single method. However, there are also a variety of options that allow you to customize the appearance of your pages. With this post, we will take a closer look at the features and options of printing that RadScheduler provides out-of-the-box. Let’s say we have a RadScheduler populated with appointments and we want to implement...
  • Web

    Creating Visual Feedback with Kendo UI DataViz Gauges

    Last week, Burke checked in with a killer overview of the new MVVM feature and ListView widget, two new Kendo UI features that you can try out in the Q1 Beta bits. Today, I'm going to follow-up with a new DataViz goodie: the new Gauge chart type....
    March 16, 2012
  • Desktop WPF

    XAMLflix Introduces RadBulletGraph

    It's Thursday once again and that means we have a fresh new installment of XAMLflix for you. Today we'll be covering RadBulletGraph, a quick and easy to use data visualization component used for comparing several values as well as for showing projections on data, all at a glance. For a quick recap, XAMLflix = Videos + Projects covering all of the controls in both the RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF control suites. We are revamping the entire video library with fresh new content based on the latest and greatest versions of our controls, complete with projects so you can...
    March 15, 2012
  • Mobile

    Has Apple’s Enterprise Domination Already Begun?

    For many years, your day job is not where you have the best technology.  As developers, we are somewhat of an anomaly here, but for your average knowledge worker, this is true.  They usually have a locked down PC running an old version of Windows and...
    March 14, 2012