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 Thursday, February 04, 2010

Lino Tadros, CEO of Falafel Software, recently participated in an SD Times interview, see the full text here. The interview focuses on the ever increasing pace of software and component evolution, and how component vendors like Telerik and software consultants like Falafel can harness that to bring value to their customers.

posted on February 4, 2010  #    by John Waters  Comments [0]
 Sunday, January 31, 2010

Ok, it looks good, hey it is black :) fancy touches and demos well in Steve Jobs’ hands.  But do I want one of these?

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The answer is NO, for so many reasons.  I have to say I am disappointed.  I expected Apple to continue being on a roll and bring something that will change the Tablet market forever after the failure of Microsoft and others before it in the pursuit of consumer happiness :)

  • No camera? What were you thinking?  I was expecting TWO of them in the front and the back.
  • No multitasking? Really? this is not a phone, so that is not ok.
  • Is this the Kindle killer, NO WAY, it is much better and easier on the eye to read on the Kindle.  Remember, FANCY and COLORS does not mean better.
  • AT&T, really??? AGAIN???  you never learned from the IPhone deal that AT&T was your weakest link.
  • “Excellent for surfing the web” Really? with no Flash or Silverlight support?  Which web are you surfing?
  • No USB?  Really??? COMMMMEEEE ONNNN
  • No HDMI or any other video output?  COMMEEEE ONNNN
  • No 16:9 aspect ratio for watching movies?

This device is the “most important device of Steve Jobs’ career” as he said on stage two days ago in San Francisco while announcing the device.  No Steve, it is not, you have done very well, don’t sell yourself cheap with a statement like that.

The impressive part about the IPAD really is that Monotouch within 24 hours released an update to their product that will allow you to target the IPAD while continuing to build applications in C#.  I guess the good thing is that the binary format for apps is the same as IPhone while including some new namespaces for the new UI dimensions and layouts.  Kudos to the Monotouch team!

Is it just me or you agree with my opinion? Let me know here by posting a comment

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posted on January 31, 2010  #    by Lino Tadros  Comments [1]
 Friday, January 29, 2010

I came across an interesting technique earlier this week. Did you know that you can return an anonymous type from a method and still have strongly typed access to its members? I got this technique from Tomas Petricek’s blog. Here is a quick example of how it works; for details of why it works please see the original article.

        private static object ReturnAnon()
        {
            return new { FirstName = "Captain", MiddleName = "Jack", LastName = "Sparrow" };
        }

        private static T Cast<T>(object o, T type)
        {
            return (T)o;
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var anon = Cast(ReturnAnon(), new { FirstName = "", MiddleName = "", LastName = "" });
            Console.WriteLine(String.Format("FirstName: {0}", anon.FirstName));
            Console.WriteLine(String.Format("MiddleName: {0}", anon.MiddleName));
            Console.WriteLine(String.Format("LastName: {0}", anon.LastName));
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

Of course, just because you can return an anonymous type doesn’t mean that you should. As a general rule, I would say that if you are using the method’s return value in only one place, then it is OK to use this technique. However, the moment that the method is used from a second place, that anonymous type should be explicitly declared instead.

posted on January 29, 2010  #    by Adam Anderson  Comments [0]
 Friday, January 22, 2010

Falafel software is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new Telerik RadControls Silverlight book and all its source code from the Telerik web site for FREE to customers and potential customers.

The book has been a huge effort in the making of creating a comprehensive step by step courseware in order to bring productivity and real life use of the Telerik RadControls for Silverlight suite.

Falafel is very proud of this 1100 page book and we hope that the Telerik community will find it valuable and will help shorten the learning curve of Silverlight, Expression Blend,  RadControls for Silverlight, WCF, RIA Services and so many other topics that come together in this comprehensive book.

A huge thank you! goes to Noel Rice, Falafel VP of Services, for his great accomplishment and the quality of his work.  This book is Noel 9th book authored for Telerik in the last 3.5 years.

Thanks as well to the Telerik team for their confidence in us over the last 4 years and their continuous help and collaboration in order to offer their customers the best products combined with the best service possible.

Let us know what you think about the book and what would you like to see authored next :)

imageNoel Rice
posted on January 22, 2010  #    by Lino Tadros  Comments [0]

This is a very important placement. The Global 100 is Red Herring’s roll of the top 100 privately held global tech companies; sort of "the Fortune 500 list but for tech", according to Stephen Forte's blog. Our industry looks to this list to see who the next mover and shakers are.

Previous winners inclue Skype, YouTube, Salesforce and of course Google.

Finalists are selected from the regional recipients or finalists of the Red Herring 100 awards in 2007, 2008, or 2009 from Asia, Europe, and North America. The award is based on their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health.

Congratulations Telerik!

FALAFEL is proud to serve as Telerik's consulting and training arm.

For very interesting info on Telerik, see Stephen's blog at: http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,9f76e8ed-67fe-4730-8754-f2144c0cb546.aspx

posted on January 22, 2010  #    by Anneke Leigh  Comments [0]
 Tuesday, January 12, 2010
If you aren’t aware of the unique qualities of Falafel Software, here’s one for the archives. Falafelites are located across 4 time zones in California, Colorado, Texas, and Michigan, and through each other we get to experience lives beyond our own. And they aren't always what you might expect (includes cute baby animal pictures!)
posted on January 12, 2010  #    by Rachel Hagerman  Comments [0]
 Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Two recent events lead me to believe that this may indeed be the case...
posted on January 6, 2010  #    by John Waters  Comments [0]
 Monday, January 04, 2010
I've always been a fan of Commands way back when they were called Actions in the old Delphi days. With .NET, WPF, and Silverlight we have so many new tools available to us. One I’ve been having fun with is behaviors.
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posted on January 4, 2010  #    by Bary Nusz  Comments [0]
 Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Falafel Software is offering an online webinar for Telerik’s Sitefinity CMS on January 11-12 from 9AM to 12PM PST. The cost is $399/person, click here to register.

Learn the Telerik Sitefinity Content Management System from the ground up. This online, instructor-led course provides students with knowledge and skills to develop a viable web site in two days (4 hour sessions each day). The course features real-world based training on Sitefinity installation and deployment, features and concepts, the Sitefinity Workspace, web site projects, page templates, page themes, web pages, controls, file manager, modules, services, users/roles/permissions, multilingual content management, caching, medium trust support, the project database, working with the application web.config file and configuring IIS. Learn troubleshooting techniques, tips and tricks.

Register now!

posted on December 23, 2009  #    by Steve Trefethen  Comments [0]