**Update - To get Lino's slides from the Sitefinity and Beyond performance session go here.

Today, Falafel Software CEO Lino Tadros is speaking at the Sitefinity and Beyond Conference in Boston, but that is only a part of our big Sitefinity news.

Customers tend to approach Falafel for the hard stuff. Performance problems, integrations, custom modules, often much more than just a pretty user interface. Having consulted on over 100 of these complex Sitefinity solutions, Lino is well suited to deliver the talk on “Deploying High Performing and Scalable Web Solutions”, but it’s his energy and comedic style that ...

Every year, October kicks off a very busy season at Falafel : “Conference Season”. Multiple members of the team travel across the country and around world to share their expertise on a number of technologies. All Falafel Software team members spend their days, and often their nights, helping design and build cutting edge solutions for our customers. Their technical presentations draw from these real world experiences and are assembled, practiced, and presented in what little spare time they have. That’s why we call them “Rock Stars”.

This weekend at Silicon Valley Code Camp, Falafel’s entire team from around the ...

It is with great pleasure that we, at Falafel Software, introduce to you the Falafel Dashboard. 

With the latest release of Sitefinity 5.1, we were all treated to a great feature and a major change in the ability of the framework by introducing MVC in Sitefinity.

It was a clean and robust implementation that Falafel Software jumped on the opportunity and started to think about add-ons and plug-ins that will add value and benefit all Sitefinity content shareholders everywhere.

The current Dashboard in Sitefinity 4, 5 and 5.1 is pretty much a placeholder in our opinion.  It can show a ...

Capitola, CA - Aug. 1st, 2012 - Falafel Software is pleased to announce the addition of its third Microsoft MVP to the team, Tiberiu Covaci. With over 20 years of experience as a developer, trainer and speaker, Covaci will add depth to both the training and consulting divisions of Falafel Software. 

“We are very excited about the valuable addition of Tibi to the Falafel family”, said Lino Tadros, Falafel Chairman & CEO. “Tibi brings a significant level of expertise, experience and talent to our company. I have had the pleasure to speak with Tibi at major software conferences all around ...

Another teaser to show where we are going with all the possibilities with the new Falafel Dashboard for Sitefinity 5.1

Please feel free to comment here to request more features, input, must haves, etc…

 

We continue to be very excited about the new release of 5.1 and the world of possibilities it opened to build robust widgets and modules in MVC with the razor syntax

 

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 ...

On Saturday June 16, John Waters will be teaching the Window Phone Unleashed event in Mountain View, CA. This is an all day, bring your own laptop, instructor led hand on programming day, culminating in a contest with chances of winning a $500 gift card. The event will be at the Hacker Dojo.

 

Update!

Slides can be found here: Power_Point_Slides


Congratulations Anushree, proud winner of the event with her UV index app. The app does a reverse lookup of your current location to get the ZIP code, then retrieves the UV index from another web service. That service was ...

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 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 ...

Falafel Software is pleased to announce that renowned software architect and industry speaker Lance Bullock has been promoted to V.P. of Mobile Solutions at Falafel Software. Bullock has been essential to the growth of Falafel’s mobile business over the past two years, delivering mobile solutions to Falafel’s customers on time and on budget, drawing large crowds as a speaker at industry events such as Silicon Valley Code Camp and the Sprint Open Solutions Conference, and producing several mobile applications for iPhone and Android, including Falafel’s flagship mobile product, EventBoard.

“I am truly honored to have Lance Bullock lead our mobile ...

The long-awaited Mango update is finally hitting the streets. If you can’t wait for it to roll out to your phone you can always try this.

For me, one of the most eagerly awaited features was custom ringtones. The omission of that feature in the first version of WP7 was almost a deal breaker for me, but I hung in there. After you get your Mango update, use the directions here to get your custom ringtones installed on your phone. For me, that can only mean one ringtone!

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 ...

Are you a Falafel or a Telerik fan? We need you…
 
If you are a Falafel or a Telerik fan, then do us a favor. Vote for Telerik in this year’s DevProConnections Awards: http://svy.mk/nDygA2
 
We are very proud to see that our partners from Telerik have been nominated in a staggering 20 categories in this year’s DevProConnections Community Awards, a testament to how comprehensive Telerik's approach to software development solutions has become. From Visual Studio add-ins like JustCode to our CMS of choice, Sitefintiy, Telerik’s  best-of-breed solutions have helped Falafel's team deliver better software, faster.
 
Here's what ...

Falafel Software promotes Mike Dugan to Director of Marketing

Falafel Software is happy to announce that software industry veteran and MBA graduate Mike Dugan will now take the reins as Director of Marketing at Falafel Software. Dugan has been instrumental in the growth of Falafel over the past 6 years. His experience as both an engineer and a manager has given him a unique understanding of Falafel Software’s business. In his new position, Dugan will be responsible for guiding product development, promoting services, and seeking out new markets.

“I am very excited to see Mike in that new role at ...

As we welcome the New Year, we also welcome Sitefinity 4.0 to the scene. This is a real treat for the Internet. With a web service architecture (WCF), a built-in ORM, and integrated RAD controls, Sitefinity 4 is probably the most flexible content management system known to man. Just check out their API if you don’t believe me.

I am not the only one celebrating Sitefinity 4.0's arrival... Falafel Software threw their own welcome party and I was invited! This was going to be exciting… the largest Sitefinity Marketplace contributor in the same room with the leading Sitefinity partner.

The ...

Falafel Software is very excited to announce the addition of Basem Emara, widely acclaimed Sitefinity Guru, to the team!
Basem brings with him not only a well-known name and a unique track record in the Sitefinity community and consulting business, but also a very successful set of commercially available Sitefinity modules. Falafel Software is pleased to announce that these modules are now Falafel Software modules, available on the Telerik Marketplace and the Falafel store.
“With this acquisition, Falafel is firmly positioning itself as the leading Sitefinity vendor for consulting, training and off the shelf modules.” said Lino Tadros, ...

Today is a very special day for Falafel Software . All the employees flew in from all 5 states yesterday and in the next 2 hours, The Today In America crew will be filming all day, at our headquarters in Capitola, a segment on Falafel Software and its success in the Software Industry for the last decade.  The segment will be presented by NFL Hall Of Famer “Terry Bradshaw” and syndicated on CNN Headline News and FOX Business News!

 

Congratulations to our friends at Telerik for their strong presence in this year’s 2010 DevProConnections Community Choice Awards.  Telerik won several Gold and several Silver awards throughout the entire spectrum of development areas.  One of the Gold this year again was Telerik Training, we, at Falafel, are especially proud of that one as we conduct the majority of the training on Telerik products worldwide for the last 5 years.  In 2010, Falafel taught over 25 classes worldwide online and onsite on all Telerik products with great success!  We taught on the RAD ASP.NET AJAX Suite, Winforms Suite, Silverlight Suite, ...

The week of November 8th 2010, Telerik conducted a great Webinar presented by my dear friend Gabe Sumner, Sitefinity’s Chief evangelist at Telerik.

During the webinar, Gabe showed many features of the upcoming Release Candidate and also shared with the community, almost 1000 webinar attendees, the new pricing model, the new partners model and their new tiered approach.

I have to admit, I have been working with Telerik for the last 6 years on all their products as a partner, consultant, trainer and most of all a friend of the company and a close friend to their management and lots ...

We are proud to announce that the EventBoard and Falafel 2 Go applications have been approved and released on the Microsoft Marketplace for Windows Phone 7.  EventBoard is a conference productivity application for attendees utilizing ODATA and the Azure Cloud to provide users with live information about any specific conference regarding speakers, sessions, news, agenda, rooms, times, tweets, facebook, maps, etc…

Falafel 2 Go is a simple application that allows users to follow Falafel Software training agendas, blogs and Tweets on the Windows Phone 7 device on the go.

Hope you enjoy both FREE applications and we can’t wait to ...