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  • Productivity

    The TeamPulse TFS Process Template – Why Does It Matter?

    Hey, I’m Joel Poiron and I’ve been a developer on the TeamPulse project from the beginning. I am one of the guys behind our Team Foundation Server synchronization engine and also played a sizeable role in developing the TFS Work Item Manager. We’ve received a few questions regarding TFS process templates and how they affect synchronizing with TeamPulse so with this post I will try to clarify their importance and how to deal with issues that can arise. If you still haven't used the TFS Synchronization feature, I encourage you to: Check out this short how to video  ...
    August 31, 2011
  • People Humanity

    Making the world a better place. One task at a time.

    Yesterday I read an excellent blog post by Chris Dixon: http://cdixon.org/2011/08/28/do-you-want-to-sell-sugar-water-or-do-you-want-to-change-the-world/   It reminded me of something I am seeing too often when I talk to people, especially younger guys who want to be entrepreneurs. I get the feeling that they put a value only on big ideas, big discoveries, big success stories. Everyone wants to change the world and if they can’t, it is seen as a massive failure. People want to be like Steve Jobs – wake up, imagine something, make it a smashing success and change the lives of billions of people. I might be wrong, but I don’t think...
    August 31, 2011
  • Web

    IE7 is the new IE6

    A couple of weeks ago we asked you to help us decide how to handle IE6 support in Kendo UI. As we set-out to build the premiere toolset for professional JavaScript and HTML5 development, we want to make sure we avoid introducing any unnecessary "hacks" in the...
    August 31, 2011
  • Productivity Testing

    Testing AJAX Dynamically Loaded Elements

    I’ve posted up two short videos covering a typical AJAX testing scenario: the elements you need to interact with haven’t yet been created – they’re waiting on some other action on the page before they populate from a call back to the server. AJAX: Working With Dynamically Loaded Elements is the first of the two and shows how to write a simple test to deal with this situation. AJAX: Data Driving Dynamically Loaded Elements is the second. This video expands on the first and shows you how to alter the first test to use data pulled in from an Excel ...
    August 30, 2011
  • People

    Behind the Scenes with the TeamPulse Team - Part 3

    (This is a continuation of Behind the Scenes with the TeamPulse Team Part 1 and Part 2) Wow.. lots to talk about… here is the 3rd post in the series describing some of the things we do on the TeamPulse team.   Sprint Reviews At the end of each 2 week iteration the teams host a number of sprint reviews. In reality, there were two sprint reviews each sprint – one in Bulgaria and one in Winnipeg. The teams invited everyone they could to these meetings. It is really important for us to directly engage other product teams within ...
    August 30, 2011
  • People

    St. Louis Day of .NET Another Major Success

    [Cross posted from http://www.skimedic.com/blog] The 4th annual St. Louis Day(s) of .NET built on the previous years successes and once again delivered an amazing show.  Held at the beautiful Ameristar Casino and Resort in St. Charles, Missouri.  This year, the conference maxed out the capacity of the conference center (over 800 people attended the show!) Hats off to Jeff Fattic, Scott Spradlin, and Kevin Grossnicklaus and the scores (yes I mean scores) of other volunteers that made this event possible. I also have to give props to their spouses, children, friends, and co-workers, since the time commitment to run such a large event is...
    August 30, 2011
  • Productivity

    Backlog Management in TeamPulse

    Hi, I’m Yordan Dimitrov and I’m the Team Lead of the Sofia Team (you can check Joel’s blog about the TeamPulse Team structure). In my blogs I will discuss some of the great TeamPulse features as well as give you useful tips on how to use them to improve your development processes. So let’s start. In the new TeamPulse R2 release we’ve included a new feature we call backlog management. What is backlog management? I’ll start with the more narrow term, Product Backlog. A Product Backlog is one of the artifacts of the Scrum methodology and in Agile in general. ...
    August 30, 2011
  • Productivity

    Keep your code tidy with JustCode

    For the 2011 Q1 release Telerik JustCode brought to its users the ability to easily reorganize code - solution, project or folder wise. One major release later - 2011 Q2, taking into account your feedback, the JustCode Cleaner has now grown even more. With only few clicks you can change thousands of lines of code to match your requirements. Just right-mouse-click in the Solution Explorer on your solution and select Just Clean All... from the menu or you can do it folder by folder and project by project. You will see a window with available options. Two default profiles are provided (Basic and Full), but custom...
    August 29, 2011
  • Web

    Kendo UI Templates: Faster than a speeding Resig

    One of the key components included in Kendo UI is a very high-performance JavaScript "micro-templating" implementation. Almost every JavaScript front-end development project needs templating, so consistent with Kendo UI's goal of providing everything you need for JavaScript development in a seamless, compact package, we've included a...
    August 26, 2011
  • Release

    Introducing Telerik Metro Blue theme for RadControls for WinForms

    It has been more than a month since the Silverlight and WinForms teams added Metro themes to their suites and it seems that the interest in their light and clean design is constantly rising. Our reply to this enthusiasm is a new fresh metro skin for RadControls for WinForms flavoured in white and blue. The theme file is already available under the WinForms category in the Skin Sharing Portal and it will be included our next major release Q3 2011. Don’t forget that sharing your custom theme in the Skin Sharing Portal can win you a $200 ThinkGeek Gift Card....
    August 26, 2011