Falafel Software, Inc. is proud to sponsor Juleah Nusz, a fencer with the United States Fencing Association (USFA). Juleah currently ranks fifth nationally in under-16 women’s epee and 18th in under-19 women’s epee.

Juleah, 16, is from Amarillo, TX. She finished second in the 2006 under-16 women’s epee event at a North American Cup in Albuquerque, NM, and ended the 2006-2007 season ranked first in youth-14 women’s epee. She twice has represented the United States in Germany. For the 2008-2009 season, Juleah is preparing to earn a slot on the U.S. under-16 women’s epee world cup team.

Juleah plans to ...

SAN JOSE, CA— Falafel Software has released its quarterly update of its popular ActiveFocus product management and team collaboration tool.

The new version is called ActiveFocus 2008 Q2 and includes a host of new features: Auto summation of effort and cost fields in grid views, more grid and layout settings now remembered in user profile, improved keyboard support, performance enhancements, additional report customization capabilities, multi edit improvements, new powerful requirements category tree filtering features, sub item counts on all sub item tabs, bolding of unread items similar to Outlook 2007, and a remember me function for logging in automatically.

"I ...

Santa Cruz, CA — Today Telerik Inc released its Telerik Trainer tool to the general public. Falafel Software's WPF team spent the last year working hard to create this software for Telerik, and we are extremely proud of the end result.

In the words of Telerik's Chief Evangelist Todd Anglin: "This WPF training tool is easily the most advanced self-paced developer training tool I've ever seen and I think it is going to set a new standard in learning tools.".

The Telerik Trainer is an advanced multimedia player, that plays videos describing how to use Telerik's products. Each session is about ...

More information is to follow, for now see Telerik's announcement at http://blogs.telerik.com/Blogs.aspx

The company has been doing some Webinars, with materials distributed in a PDF format. I got tasked the other day with developing the materials for an upcoming session - but I didn't really have a way to create PDF output, just Microsoft Word. "Just", I say, until I googled some phrase like "Microsoft Word PDF".

Ain't technology grand - the first entry that came up was this link to the Microsoft download center, where there's a download for an Office 2007 add-in which allows eight different office programs to save files to the PDF format. It also lets you send ...

I recently had some trouble getting the "Remember me" check box that comes built into the ASP.NET Login control to work as advertised. A quick Google search revealed that this is a pretty common occurrence with multiple possible causes, but the one that probably gets people the most is neglecting to set the cookie timeout. If you don't, the default is a cookie that lasts for only 30 minutes. Below is a sample that will create a cookie that lasts for 30 days from the most recent login and automatically renews itself.

<authentication  mode="Forms">  <forms  cookieless...

My colleague Steve emailed me today and asked "why are there 214 indices on the table SA_OrderHeader?"

I laughed, and told him don't be silly. SQL Server Enterprise Studio showed 'only' 22. But Steve was using SQL Manager 2008 for SQL Server and saw the strangely named indices below:

Intrigued, I did an sp_help SA_OrderHeader and now I could see them...hypothetical indices!

So, I did some reading about this, and it turns out these are created by the Index Tuning Wizard, and are normally removed when it runs to completion, but I guess sometimes not... see here for instance....

OK, so I'm a little late to the party. I've been using it for a few days now, and I'm very pleased. Browsing is even faster, and there are new features like the Quick Find address bar that performs full-text searches on every page in your browsing history. Give it a try at www.opera.com/download.

Lately I've needed to compare the schemas of two or more databases and highlight the differences. Based on internet research, I settled on two contenders: AdeptSQL Diff and Red Gate SQL Compare. Both are reasonably fast. AdeptSQL's UI looks very 16-bit and has limited reporting options. Red Gate's UI is very attractive and offers more reporting options. However, Red Gate's product currently has a bug that considers quoted and unquoted trigger identifiers to be different, even if the identifier itself is the same. This resulted in a large number of false differences, forcing me to go with AdeptSQL for now. ...

Orlando, FL — Microsoft Corp just announced that Lino Tadros, President and CEO of Falafel Software, has been voted MVP in C# for the fourth year in a row.

"Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community's best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others", according to Microsoft.

Mr Lino Tadros is currently attending  the ...

We enjoyed meeting the TechSmith team at TechED this year. We are big fans of Snagit and Camtesia Studio and all of us here at Falafel use their products for several years now.  SnagIt 9 was released this week at TechED with awesome new features.

Picture below is for Betsy Weber, Chief Evangelist of TechSmith, and Lino Tadros from Falafel Software at the show.  Stay tuned for great new announcements coming up from both companies partnering to bring the latest and greatest in technology to customers worldwide :)

The Falafellites are having fun at TechED 2008 at our Bronze Sponsor booth.  Rocking on RockBand for XBOX 360 till late last night with attendees for several hours.  Too much booooooze! We don't remember anything!

I had the pleasure to be invited to participate on the "LINQ in the UI" panel at TechED 2008 this week with some of the brightest minds at Microsoft in regards to that topic.  I shared the stage with Amanda Silver, VB Program Manager, Erick Thompson, MS Program Manager and Charlie Calvert, C# community Program Manager.

At Falafel, John Waters and Bary Nusz have been working very hard on releasing the new Telerik Trainer product for Telerik Corp. when they have used LINQ to XML and LINQ to Objects to simplify the UI code and make it readable and maintainable ...

It has been wonderful to spend some time with the AutomatedQA team here in Orlando this week, during the TechED 2008 Developers Conference.  Falafel and AQA have build a solid and successful partnership, offering high quality consulting and training worldwide on TestComplete, AQTime and Automated Build studio.

Last night, we celebrated a great quarter for both our companies at Texas De Brazil in Orlando.  It was a pleasure to spend some fun time with them all.

In the picture from right to left, Jordan Halls (Falafel), Lino Tadros (Falafel), Nick Olivo (AQA), Ashley Steenbruggen (AQA) and Adam Seeley (AQA)

Orlando, FL — Falafel Software Inc, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner providing consulting, training, and custom software development for enterprise and small business customers, is proud to announce the release of the Telerik Trainer product.
The Telerik Trainer is a state of the art learning tool, leveraging the latest technologies to combine video training with hands on coding. The tool was custom built for Telerik Corporation, as part of their effort to provide the best online support for their award winning RadControls and Reporting product suites.

The Telerik Trainer, depicted below, is an advanced video player that uses powerful new Microsoft ...

Anybody familiar with WPF's storyboard knows that animating with the various UI elements is not a problem at all, but what happens when you want the storyboard to call some code behind? The most important thing to remember about the storyboard is that it can only affect dependency properties. So how do we use this to help us call some code behind? We first need to create our own custom dependency property in the form where the storyboard exists.

Define the static DP.

Implement a non-static wrapper property that will be called by the storyboard.

  Looking for a good time? Join Falafel Software, Inc. at Microsoft Tech•Ed North America 2008 during the IT Professionals Conference June 10–13, booth #308.
We will showcase ActiveFocus, a web-based project management and team collaboration tool enabling teams to quickly share information, track progress, and deliver projects on time. Group and one-on-one demos will be available.
We'll be giving away three Zune® media players and a complete Xbox 360™ gaming system including Rock Band™. Rock Band will be set up at the booth and available for your enjoyment!
Microsoft Tech•Ed North America 2008 IT Professionals is the Microsoft ...