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, ...

The Problem

I wanted to be able to add items to a IList<T> but not at the beginning or end of the list—in order based on a sorting function I specified.  I could have used List<T>’s Sort() method that takes an IComparer<T> as a parameter, but then I would have to define a new comparer class for every class I wanted to store in the list (not to mention every time I wanted to sort one those types off of a different property). 

The Solution

Instead of this potentially bulky solution, I created a generic extension method that will ...

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!

Currently, Microsoft is live streaming the Silverlight Firestarter event, http://www.silverlight.net/news/events/firestarter/.

First off, the mandatory damage control (the Fire Extinguisher) : lots of statements saying emphatically that Silverlight has a bright future…

Scott also demoed a cool new application from our friends at Telerik, FaceDeck, a very slick Silverlight Facebook client, see http://www.telerik.com/products/facedeck.aspx. Congratulations Telerik team!

Scott Guthrie is now presenting what will be in Silverlight 5:

- Richer Media Support: hardware GPU acceleration, trick play (variable speed playback), low latency live streaming, other smooth streaming enhancements, remote control support, power management improvements. They did a 3 minute ...

See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=7a1089b6-4050-4307-86c4-9dadaa5ed018&displaylang=en

The new portal is a completely revamped Silverlight application, just log into your portal as normal and you will be given the option to go to the new portal.

I blogged from PDC about the new items in the SDK, including more of an Infrastructure as a Service approach, allowing you to remote desktop into instance, run installs in elevated permissions mode, use your own VMs, and much more.

This is a huge upgrade and we are very excited to start leveraging this for our Event Board and other Cloud Based solutions!

UPDATE: It took all of 30 ...