I'm just wrapping up my first project using Icenium, Telerik's cloud-based IDE for creating Android and iOS apps using HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript. I must say that it's been a very enjoyable experience and I've been very impressed with the product that our friends at Telerik have created.

It's a bit unfair to do a full review of this product yet, since it's so new and still in v1. ...

If you happen to be experienced in development using Visual Studio, but a bit new to working in XCode for iOS development (like me), you are probably used to your application breaking on exceptions during debugging.  But by default, your iOS application may not act as you expect when it comes to debugging crash exceptions.  You may instead see something like this:

With an error message that says: 

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception

What?  Why was my exception uncaught while I am debugging?  I, for one, would rather be taken to the point at which the exception ...

We were very excited last week with the release of Sitefinity 5.  It has been running fast and solid on several machines (servers) here at Falafel Software.

One blemish though was the major breaking change to the authentication of the REST APIs.  If you are upgrading from a 4.x site to 5.0, no worry that change will not affect you (not right away at least), but if you are setting up a brand new Sitefinity 5 Web Application, the default authentication has changed from FORMS authentication to CLAIMS authentication which will break any code previously written using the REST API ...

Apple does a lot of neat things with images in iOS, and many times we get the benefits of shiny, chrome-like effects on our images without really doing anything.

If you create a new tabbed application in XCode, the default setup will give you two tabs, with square and round images in the tab bar for the tabs.

Note the shiny blue appearance of the selected tab.  So, what do the original images look like?  Pretty boring, actually:  just a plain black circle and square.

Wow, that's a quite a difference.  Pretty cool, right?  I thought so too.  But then ...

Falafel Software's Director of Mobile Development recently spoke at the Sprint Open Solutions Conference in Santa Clara, CA.  It was the 2nd straight year he has been invited to take the stage at this event. What makes this achievement even more impressive is that each talk focused on a completely different technology. Last year, Lance explained the in's and out's of Android development. This year, Sprint's hot new product is the iPhone and this year's talk focused on just that. Lance happily shared his experience building Falafel's flagship mobile product, EventBoard, for the iPhone and demonstrated the versatility that ...

Going to Silicon Valley Code Camp this weekend? Chances are, you will run into a Falafel. Our entire team travels from all over the country to Foothills College this weekend, to attend the biggest (and best) code camp in the country.

We love being a part of this fantastic event. This year, Falafel is a platinum sponsor, picked up the tab for Saturday’s pizza lunch, built the mobile track, supplied 7 speakers with 11 informative sessions and donated our mobile application, EventBoard, to be used as the official conference app.

Our 7 speakers have been having a friendly competition to see who can get the greatest number ...

On October 8th and 9th 2011, Falafel software will have the privilege and great honor of sponsoring this great event yet again as a  Platinum Sponsor and also offer seven speakers to present on multiple topics (Mobile, iPhone, Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, Silverlight, Windows 8, WinRT, XAML and many others…

Falafel this year is in charge of the Mobile track and we look forward to presenting great session to the community.

We want to thank Peter Kellner and all the great people at SVCC that allow us to share our knowledge and experience with the the community and also learn ...

	You can now DOWNLOAD the DevReach Viewer for iPhone from the AppStore.  The app will allow you to view all sessions, speakers, schedule, agenda, tracks and also view the latest NEWS about the conference as well as as mark sessions as favorites for off line viewing. Hope you enjoy the application and find it useful while attending next week’s DevReach Conference in Sofia Bulgaria.

Our final release of Silicon Valley Code Camp app for the Android platform is now available on the Android Marketplace.  Falafel now has all major platforms covered (iPhone, Android and WP7)

If you are an Android user please head to the market place and get your Free app today to manage your sessions, speakers, favorites,  and others made for ease features to make this fun and simple for everyone under all platforms.

If you have an Android phone you can scan the QR barcode below and it will download the app automatically.

Hope you enjoy!  See you on Saturday!

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Falafel Software is very excited to be sponsoring the Silicon Valley  Code Camp for the 3rd year as a Platinum Sponsor. This excellent Code Camp at the heart of the Silicon Valley, in Los Altos CA, at the beautiful Foothills College has always been a well organized event full of great sessions and great speakers.

This year Falafel Software is showing up in force :) by having 5 speakers present 12 technical sessions during the 2 day event:

Lino Tadros

• Mobile Development with iPhone, Android and Phone 7
• How to Test Silverlight apps the right way
• Silverlight 4 Out ...

 The Falafel Mobile Team is pleased to announce that Falafel 2 Go is now available in the App Store for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.  This application joins its’ Android cousin (already available in the Android Market) as a solution which allows our customers to view our upcoming training schedule, quickly view our Twitter Tweets, or read our excellent technical blogs – all very easily from their mobile devices.

 

http://itunes.com/apps/falafelsoftwareinc

 

Falafel 2 Go is a “universal application” where the same binary runs on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad in native resolution.  This is a preferred ...

A very common UI paradigm in mobile development is the scrolling list of items.  You have all seen it: flick your finger up and down and the data scrolls by, touch an item and drill down into the details for the touched item.  Here are a couple of examples from our Falafel 2 Go app:

                                                  

You can probably imagine this is a critical performance area for a resource constrained mobile device: there could be many ...

 

 

Today is an exciting day for me:  My first blog as a member of the excellent team at Falafel Software, a Falafel Mobile application hits the Android Market, and Steve Jobs even further solidifies my belief that mobile devices are now ready to handle the feature-rich, demanding business applications that Falafel Software will be delivering to our Enterprise Customers.

 

 

Falafel 2 Go

 

 

 

Falafel Software is pleased to announce that the Falafel 2 Go mobile application is now available in the Android Market.  Falafel 2 Go begins its’ life as a simple mobile application ...