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Rethinking Agile Methodologies Part I: How I started to use Scrum
In the beginning I used waterfall. There I said it. Looking back at the mid to late 1990s, I can’t believe how I ever got software developed at all! ;) I was first introduced to Agile methodologies ten years ago. When I was the CTO of Zagat, one of our board members gave me a copy of Kent Beck’s original Extreme Programming Explained. At the time Zagat was doing a modified version of waterfall that was more “agile”, meaning we were doing things quickly and responding to the needs of the business (this was the .COM boom you know!), however, we were not Aglie insofar as... -
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The Australian SharePoint Conference Kicks off Tomorrow. With Telerik on Board!
Telerik is heading to Australia to sponsor and take part in its first event there – Australia’s biggest SharePoint conference of the year, which is to take place March 8-9 in Hilton Hotel, Sydney. Excitement has seized the Telerik camp as we are to introduce our newly-launched SharePoint Acceleration Kit (read a blog post here) which leverages Telerik’s world-famous ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight components to offer stress-free SharePoint 2010 web parts ready to plug and play. If you are attending the show, make sure to stop by Telerik’s booth # 10 for an exclusive demo of the latest addition to the Telerik... -
Desktop WinForms
(Re)Mixed Hierarchy Mode in RadGridView for WinForms
In addition to the fact that our next release focuses mostly on our accessibility and automated testing as described in this blog post, in our upcoming version we will include many bug fixes in all RadControls for WinForms, including a highly optimized version of RadTreeView. In this article however, we want to present a new interesting feature in RadGridView that you will surely find useful. A customer of ours requested a mixed hierarchy mode where he wanted to use a self-reference hierarchy AND the classic hierarchy mode together. The scenario that he described used a file explorer where the main level... -
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Q1’11 Pre-Release Series: A Sneak Peek at What’s Coming to the ASP.NET AJAX and MVC Suites with Q1
In case you missed the news about the recently introduced beta releases of the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC component suites, this blog post is coming just at the right time to set your expectations about the upcoming first major release for 2011. IE9 RC compliance and enhanced mobile devices support are the two major themes overarching the releases of the Telerik ASP.NET suites. RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, for example, will ship an upgraded TouchScrollExtender and support for touch-and-drag gestures for all controls. Q3 2010 introduced Level A accessibility compliance for all Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC and now the... -
Mobile
Gauges design-time gallery for Windows Phone
The Beta 2 release of our Windows Phone controls is here, it brings a bag of improvements to the existing controls and one of these improvements is a design-time gallery for the gauges. The need for a design-time gallery arose when we were creating the examples in our QSF application. It turned out that creating a full gauge design was more tedious than it looked at first. The gauges have a lot of functionality to tweak and this directly translates to a lot of XAML. After the first two or three implemented designs we thought "Oh my, we have to do something about writing... -
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Speaking in Sydney next week
I’ll be speaking in Sydney on Tuesday March 15th on building your own Agile methodology. As usual, Joel will be joining me. The Agile Buffet Table: Implementing your own Agile Process with Microsoft ALM Tools New to Agile? Having challenges implementing an agile process in your organization? Have you been using Scrum, but need to bend the rules to make it work in your organization? Can’t get the business to “buy-in”? Come and learn about implementing an agile process in your organization. You'll look at the “buffet table” of agile processes and procedures and learn how to properly decide “what to eat.” We’ll start by defining XP, Scrum, Kanban... -
Release
Welcome the Telerik SharePoint Acceleration Kit
It is our pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the new product line that joins the broad Telerik portfolio - Telerik SharePoint Acceleration Kit (SAK). + = Leveraging the industry-leading Telerik AJAX and Silverlight components and hassle-free SharePoint 2010 web parts which expose codeless point-and-click configuration, implementing high-performing and interactive SharePoint applications is no-brainer with Telerik SAK either for developers, business users or managers. Connecting to your SharePoint data (either SP Lists, SQL or Excel files) and visualizing it using standards compliant, semantically rendered and accessible UI has never been easier using the ready-to-deploy web parts stacked in the Telerik... -
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Telerik AJAX controls .NET 2.0 support discontinued as of Q1 2011
Following the Telerik AJAX Product Support Lifecycle model (which closely resembles the Microsoft one), the time has come to retire the .NET 2.0 support for our AJAX controls. This will happen officially with the Q1 2011 release of the suite, slated in a couple of weeks, meaning that you will no longer receive .NET 2.0 versions of the Telerik AJAX assemblies, projects or VS 2005 integration as part of the installation packs. With this step the .NET 2 versions of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX available in previous releases will enter their extended (paid) support phase as shown in the diagram from... -
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RadRibbonBar for ASP.NET AJAX arrives in Q1 2011
As some of you may have already seen in our roadmap, we are about to release a brand new AJAX RadRibbonBar control with Q1 2011. In fact, we released a Q1 2011 beta with a preview of this control and live demos almost a week ago. I will describe here what the control looks like, does and will do in the final release. Some forewords,or the importance of the KISS principle We all know that Microsoft's Ribbon control is quite complex and requires its rendering to be flexible to allow execution of its resizing features and overall presentation. This is the reason... -
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Q1’11 Pre-Release Series: OpenAccess ORM Brings Design-time improvements, Updated Fluent Mapping API, and more
Q1 2011 will be a major milestone release for Telerik Open Access ORM, your .NET data programming and SQL expert. The new release will bring serious design-time improvements which will help you to work with data in an easier and more intuitive manner. A new fully featured project upgrade tool will allow you to upgrade even more classic projects to the new OpenAccess context API. The code-only developers will embrace the updated Fluent Mapping API, which exposes over 90% of OpenAccess' functionality. Finally, a project converter from Entity Framework will allow you to switch to Telerik OpenAccess in a few...
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