Telerik Tools Helped Deliver EventBoard on Time

Posted by: on | Wednesday, February 27, 2013     Comments

Building our EventBoard mobile solution for conferences was no easy task. The solution includes native applications for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Windows 8, Windows Azure cloud services, a web based administration portal, and a separate product website.

Thankfully, we were able to use the tools from Telerik in nearly every facet of development. The tools saved us time and money, and now Telerik has featured our development story in a detailed case study. You can read all about what it took to build EventBoard here.

EventBoard Official App of Microsoft MVP Summit

Posted by: on | Tuesday, February 12, 2013     Comments

Falafel Software’s mobile conference solution EventBoard, has been chosen as the official application of the Microsoft MVP Summit.

The Microsoft MVP Award is given to technical experts who actively participate in the community, sharing both their knowledge and enthusiasm for Microsoft products. For 20 years, it has remained one of the most difficult awards to earn and wearing the badge of an MVP has signified supreme technical excellence with Microsoft technologies.

Each year, every MVP from around the world is invited to Microsoft headquarters for the MVP Summit. This private event gives MVPs early and direct access to ...

Team Foundation Service Adds Git

Posted by: on | Monday, February 04, 2013     Comments

Since late 2012, Microsoft has been offering access to an Windows Azure-hosted Team Foundation Server (TFS) which they branded as "Team Foundation Service". At the beginning of the year, they took (most of) this service out of beta and announced that it would stay free for teams of 5 or less. The pricing for bigger teams hasn't been announced yet, and remains free currently, and is likely to be very affordable going forward.

For a lot of companies, Falafel included, this is a very compelling option. This service already gives you all the benefits of a cloud-hosted source control repository: ...

Falafel Strong Start To An Exciting 2013

Posted by: on | Friday, February 01, 2013     Comments

Wow, I can't believe 2012 is gone already, not only that, but January of 2013 is over.  January has been a tremendous month for the company, the best January ever in the 10 years history of Falafel Software Inc.

We started the year very strong with multiple new accounts in the USA, Europe, Far East and Australia.

FalafelCON2013Sitefinity continues to be a very strong business for Falafel and we continue to assemble the best Engineering team in the industry to meet the consulting and architecture demands for our Sitefinity Business.  Great announcements coming soon!

SmartBear's relationship continues to flourish ...

The Latest Windows Azure MVP

Posted by: on | Wednesday, October 24, 2012     Comments

Microsoft is running out of designations for Falafel’s Tiberiu Covaci. Before becoming a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Tibi had to pass nearly every .NET related Microsoft exam and earned several Microsoft titles in the process. His technical qualifications and contributions to the .NET development community have already won him the prestigious title of Microsoft MVP. Now, his contributions to the growing Windows Azure community have also caught the attention of Microsoft, and it is with great pleasure that we introduce to you the latest Windows Azure MVP, Tiberiu Covaci.

Congrats Tibi!

Two Falafel Employees Receive Microsoft MVP Award

Posted by: on | Monday, July 02, 2012     Comments

Two of Falafel Software's employees have been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award. The award is given to outstanding members of Microsoft's technical communities for contributions made during the previous 12 months.

For our CEO, Lino Tadros, it's a milestone. This is the 10th year in a row that Lino has been named a MVP. For over a decade Lino has actively contributed to the Microsoft community, adapting his expertise to the latest technology. Earlier this year, Lino was recognized at the Microsoft MVP Summit for bringing to market EventBoard for Windows Phone, one of the most trusted ...

Get Ready to "Meet Windows Azure"

Posted by: on | Tuesday, May 29, 2012     Comments

At Falafel Software we are big fans of Microsoft’s cloud platform, Windows Azure. We’ve been consulting and building with Azure for some time, even using it as the service platform for our mobile event application, EventBoard. Thanks to Windows Azure, EventBoard easily scales to support events of any size, anywhere in the world. We’ve hosted nearly 100 events over the past year and can testify to the “Always Up. Always On.” mantra.

If you’ve been considering moving your system to the cloud, Microsoft is hosting a free online event that you might be interested in.  June 7th at 1PM PDT ...

Microsoft TechEd Europe Chooses EventBoard

Posted by: on | Monday, May 14, 2012     Comments

Microsoft TechEd Europe 2012 has chosen Falafel Software’s flagship mobile application, “EventBoard”, as the official conference companion for the event in June. 

Spanning 5 days and packed with over 1000 educational opportunities, TechEd is the premier European Microsoft technology education event, and this year navigating the event will be a breeze with EventBoard. Thousands of attendees will abandon the paper program and use EventBoard to plan out their day, navigate the show floor and stay connected. 

We like to think that TechEd Europe’s selection of EventBoard was an easy decision to make. EventBoard utilizes some of Microsoft’s latest and greatest ...