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Upcoming XAML Talks
Here are the upcoming XAML Talks that I have scheduled. If you are attending any of them then feel free to stop by and say Hello. All About Xaml – 10/27/2011 @ 6PM – WinRT XAML/C# and what this means for SL Developers. Desert Code Camp – 11/5/2011 in Chandler, Arizona. Title: Getting started with Silverlight 5 Abstract: This session is designed for people who want to quickly understand the key features in Silverlight 5. We will walk you through downloading the bits to finally starting your first project starting from File->New Projects. We will also take a look at several key features such as XAML... -
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Telerik MVC Q3 2011 Beta preview: New charting and grid features, and better mobile support
Two days after the Telerik AJAX Q3 2011 Beta launch we are presenting you the MVC Q3'11 Beta preview bits. Among the highlights are the new Metro skin for all Telerik MVC Extensions, improved mobile support, new Pie chart series type, keyboard support for the editor and a bunch of new features for the grid extension. The compressed packages for the Open Source and Commercial distributions are ready and steady for download. Enhanced Mobile Support | Metro skin With this early preview we are conveying improved mobile support for our MVC extensions in terms of drag & drop and touch support for the grid,... -
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Introducing the New TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal
We are excited to announce the release of one of the most requested TeamPulse features – the Ideas & Feedback Portal. The portal is a web-based solution for managing customer ideas and feedback and comes as a TeamPulse extension. The main benefit of the TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal is that it helps you connect your product team with your external stakeholders so that you can focus on what matters most - building the right features in the right priority and increase customer value. This first version will allow users to: Capture feedback and problem reports from customers Publish project ...October 27, 2011 1 min read -
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The LOB Chronicles Episode 12 : Looking at a (Rad)GridView
During the previous episode we explored some of the controls that are being used within the CRM demo, including RadDomainDataSource, RadSparklines, RadUniformGrid, and RadCoverFlow, but don’t think we stopped there with uses for the RadControls for Silverlight suite. All of those were found within a single view of a single module, helping to better streamline development and provide the performance and functionality we are looking for, but that leaves quite a few other modules to cover. Since we’ll be seeing it pop up more than a few times, I thought it would be best to take a look... -
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Introducing Item Animation support for RadDataBoundListBox for WP7
I bet that everyone using a Windows Phone have noticed the slick animations that are applied to a single item when it is removed or added to the viewport in the native mail client. That happens when you sync and the recent mail is added on top of the other items. Inspired by this, we decided to extend our RadDataBoundListBox and provide out-of-the-box support for per-item animations. Moreover, we made sure to allow customizations like defining your own animations, performing batch animations when resetting the source collection and defining a time interval between each separate animation when performing a batch operation. So... -
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Telerik Windows Phone controls Q3 2011 Beta - New Context Menu, Chart Financial Series plus more
It has been a really dynamic quarter – the new Mango update of the OS is officially out introducing plenty of awesome new features, Nokia World has just started and the first Nokia Windows Phone device has been announced. No argument exciting moments for the entire Windows Phone ecosystem and much more to come. In the meantime we are working hard to continue enriching our suite and to make a developer's life easier, especially when the whole new Nokia realm is now alive – we are happy to announce the Q3 2011 BETA release of RadControls for Windows Phone. An important thing... -
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Kendo UI Theme Builder
This past week I had the opportunity to attend the DevReach conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. Coincidentally, the team working on Kendo UI is also in Sofia. I spent a few days at the office talking with the team and sneaking glances at what they are currently working... -
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Welcome Nokia Lumia WP7 Emulator Skin
Our team got so excited about the new addition to the Windows Phone family and all the new development opportunities opening up that we created a Nokia Lumia skin for our WP7 emulator just for fun. And then we thought that you might have fun skinning your emulator in the smoking hot black or white Nokia Lumia skin too. Download for free our Nokia Lumia WP7 Emulator Skin and dress up your WP7 emulator. The zip file contains a Readme.txt file which explains in several simple steps what you need to do to skin your emulator. If you are already a Telerik customer... -
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Audiocast on Developer + Tester Collaboration
The Test Studio team is sponsoring EuroSTAR 2011 in Manchester, England from 21-24 November. Part of the run up to EuroSTAR includes a series of audiocasts from various people in the testing industry. I’ve got one episode in that series: “Devs + Testers == Awesome” [1] I talk for about ten minutes on something I’m particularly passionate about: tight collaboration between testers and developers. I’ve long believed (through practical hard knocks!) that closer collaboration gets our customers better software. You’ll have to register on the site to listen to the audiocast (sorry!), but I think it’s worth it!...October 26, 2011 1 min read -
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Know Thy Customer
Sounds simple. Why is it so hard then? First, what do I mean when I say “Know Thy Customer?” Ultimately I mean that the best teams have customer value at the heart of their software development processes – they truly “Know Thy Customer”. I’m not saying anything new – however, I do want to talk about how to take this beyond simply “proclaiming” you know your customer or that you have a prioritized backlog down to some ways you can execute and engage. I’ve made many mistakes in my almost 20 years of developing software. Lots and lots of technical ...
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