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Web ASP.NET AJAX
How to load 1M+ records in Telerik’s ASP.NET Grid without Compromising Performance
The latest release of Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX controls (Q3 2013) shipped the so famous virtualization feature in our almighty ASP.NET DataGrid allowing you to load hundreds of thousands of records without compromising performance. Another goal for this functionality was to replace the previous Virtual Scrolling and Paging features which were a great example but did not deliver the full user experience that a virtualization mechanism could deliver. -
Mobile
First Everlive-powered game released
With Everlive being officially released just three weeks ago, we are happy to announce that the first game powered by our BaaS solution is on the market. Jigsaw Puzzles HD is a picture puzzle game for Windows 8 PCs and tablets. Using Everlive, the developers from Enless Soft were able to dramatically reduce their time-to-market and also facilitate their ongoing game-related tasks.November 12, 2013 9 min read -
Web
How To Do JavaScript Alerts Without Being A Jerk
Alerts can be dangerous if overused. Additionally, they are not going to win you any design awards. However, they do have a place. In this article, we take a look at how to create sexier JavaScript alerts that are not so jarring to the user experience. -
Release
Weekly Dose of Telerik Support Resources 11/12/2013
Weekly Dose of Telerik Support ResourcesNovember 12, 2013 3 min read -
Productivity Testing
30 Days of TDD – Day 20 – Refactoring Revisited Pt. 3
In the previous post we started refactoring our code to make sure we were complying with the SRP. Using our tests we are able to optimize our code for readability and maintainability. We’ll continue in the post by examining how the interactions between the code we want to extract to methods needs to be taken into account when refactoring. -
Productivity
Personas- Who Are You Building Those Features For?
All people are different. In bazillion ways. Some are young, some – old. Highly educated or just in pre-school. Some like cats, others like dogs. Some have an iPhone, others use an Android phone. When we build software we most often build it for someone else to use. And the people that use that software are different from us. They know different things, they expect different things, and they like different things. So you cannot possibly expect that when you build a feature, everyone will know how or why to use it. If you bet on a wrong design people ...November 12, 2013 4 min read -
Productivity Testing
30 Days of TDD – Day 19 – Refactoring Revisited Pt. 2
In the previous post we started refactoring our code to make sure we were complying with the SRP. Using our tests we are able to optimize our code for readability and maintainability. We’ll continue in the post by examining how the concept of abstractions can inform our refactoring efforts. -
Mobile
Developing for Windows Phone? How about a Hackathon? Or four?
On November 16, Nokia is launching a series of Nokia DVLUP days reaching developers in four different US cities - Boston, Tampa, Sunnyvale, and Vancouver. Learn to make amazing Windows Phone apps and win big prizes just for participating. -
Productivity Testing
Cloudy with a Chance of Testing
Greetings, Testers. Over the past several weeks, we've been talking about four technology trends that have been identified as disruptive, and Peter & I discussed them in our recent webinar. For example, there's the cloud, "a colloquial expression used to describe a variety of different types of computing concepts that involve a large number of computers connected through a real-time communication network such as the Internet." [wikipedia's description] In real terms, for us that means one or more virtual systems that we can use to host our data or applications without adding IT staff or hardware in ...November 08, 2013 2 min read -
Web
Know When To CDN
There’s no doubt that JavaScript, CSS, images and other resources are becoming larger and larger and HUGELY McHUGENATOR sized these days (just take a look at any popular website you visit!). To make matters worse, though, we also have more people accessing these monstrous websites with 50megs of animated jiffs (pronounced “gif”), 10megs of JavaScript and more CSS than an MS-Word document’s “export to HTML”. Things are a bit of a mess, quite frankly. But there’s hope, even with the monstrously sized sites and ever-increasing number of mobile users. Content-Delivery Networks (CDNs), while not a silver bullet by any means, can help you to reduce the amount of time that it takes to deliver your website assets around the world.