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Productivity
Rethinking Agile Methodologies Part IV: Kanban defined
See also: · Part I: How I started to use Scrum · Part II: Scrum, but · Part III: Moving away from Scrum In Part I we looked at how I got into Agile and Scrum. In Part II we explored how Scrum failed to be flexible enough to fit into my unique process. In Part III we took a look at how I got introduced to Kanban, without even knowing it. Today we’ll take a quick look at what Kanban is. Kanban is a Japanese word that loosely translated means “signal card.” Kanban’s underlying thesis is that by using signal cards at various points in the production process to indicate the amount of work...April 01, 2011
by Steve Forte
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People
Need a break? JustCode Autopilot Mode Comes to the Rescue.
Ever dreamed of being able to step away from your desk for a while without negatively impacting your capacity? What if you could answer the phone without interrupting your coding flow? Well, now you can. True to our commitment to facilitate effortless software development, we are pleased to announce the launch of an Autopilot Mode for Telerik’s Visual Studio productivity add-in, JustCode. This new mode enables you to deliver unmatched efficiency gains, while helping you identify flawed coding logic on the spot. By relying on complex pattern-matching algorithms and semantic analysis, Telerik JustCode can derive an understanding from your unique coding...April 01, 2011 -
Productivity
Agile is not Scrum, but Scrum is Agile
Sounds simple enough right? Unfortunately, I missed that lesson after being introduced to SCRUM, which I thought was actually called “Agile”. Why unfortunately? Well, this lesson in Agile 101 was taught to me by a potential client. Here’s how the conversation went: Client: “So, what sort of development methodologies does your team use?” Me: “Agile methodologies. They really work well for us.” Client: “Oh really? Which methodology?” Me: “Uh…Agile?” Client: “I know that, but I mean what type of agile development you do?” Me: “The one with Scrum meeting, I suppose.” Client: “You mean Scrum?” Me: “Yeah. Scrum…that makes sense.” ...March 31, 2011 -
Mobile
RadControls for Windows Phone 7 Are Here - So Now What?
Now that the official release of RadControls for Windows Phone 7 has shipped, we have been seeing a few questions from both current and potential customers around what is coming next and what to expect from the suite now that it is official. Luckily, I’ve got some answers for you! First up, now that the suite is official, the official “free lunch” with the RadControls for Windows Phone 7 is officially over. What does that mean, you might ask? As it turns out, during both the CTP and both Betas of the WP7 suite we had tons of developer interest, so much so...March 30, 2011
by Evan Hutnick
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Mobile
Using SterlingDB with Telerik RadJumpList to achieve maximum performance in LOB scenarios
This is the last part of the series on building WP7 ToDo application with Telerik WP7 Control toolkit. Please refer to the "master" blog post for more details and links for the other part of the series. In this article I will show you how to implement a real life LOB scenario for WP7. In our latest Telerik WP7 ToDo application we have a lot of tasks which should be persisted on the device. We are using SterlingDB to persist and retrieve the data to/from the IsolatedStorage and RadJumpList to group and display the data. SterlingDB is an open source, well documented and high performance database – it is available on...March 30, 2011 -
Mobile
Implementing WP7 ToDo application part3 - adding richness and device features
Add/Edit Task This is part 3 of the series on building WP7 ToDo application with Telerik WP7 Control toolkit. Please refer to the "master" blog post for more details and links for the other part of the series. The add/edit task screen is a standard form for adding and editing tasks. The more interesting things here are how the rich (voice, photo, location) fields for the tasks are specified. But first let’s see how to populate the “standard” fields. The design of the add/edit screen is specified below: We basically have a form field for each of the Task class properties. For the string properties we have...March 30, 2011 -
Mobile
Implementing WP7 ToDo application part2 - building the home screen
Building the Home Screen Panorama This is part 2 of the series on building WP7 ToDo application with Telerik WP7 Control toolkit. Please refer to the "master" blog post for more details about the application and links to the other part of the series. The home screen of the application consists from the following major components: Home Panorama Tasks List Projects List Let’s first examine the Panorama control. The requirements were that that the logo of the application and the “New Task” button should be always visible regardless to which item of the panorama the user has scrolled. To accomplish this we are using the Title property of the Panorama control...March 30, 2011 -
Web
ListView style for your Silverlight and WPF DataGrid
Have you ever wondered how to create a grid with sorting, filtering, etc. however present items in similar to Windows Explorer ListView way? With Telerik components for Silverlight and WPF this can be achieved very easily in just three steps: 1. Edit RadGridView style with Blend and remove GridViewScrollViewer from the template: 2. Insert RadTileView in the grid template, bind it to the RadGridView Items and define desired tile content: 3. Run the application to check the...March 30, 2011 -
Mobile
Implementing WP7 ToDo application part1 - Getting started
Getting Started This is part 1 of the series on building WP7 ToDo application with Telerik WP7 Control toolkit. Please refer to the "master" blog post for more details and links for the other part of the series. The first step for us when starting to work on the application was to create the wireframes. Our wireframes basically consisted of the app screens and the flow diagrams for all the actions that users can do in the application. Download a PDF file with all wireframes of the application. The benefit for having these wireframes (still no graphic design available) at this early stage helped both developers and designers to get...March 30, 2011 -
Mobile
Implementing WP7 ToDo application from A to Z
[download the application complete source code from your Telerik account ] Introduction As part of our support service in Telerik we are implementing integration examples for our customers. The aim of these examples is mainly to show how to use the controls in real-life scenarios. In the case of WP7 (Windows Phone 7) it is a little bit different. The platform is still quite new and there is high demand for examples that not only show the usage of the Telerik controls, but the usage of the platform too. Also there is a marketplace where we can show our applications to the end users...March 30, 2011
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