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 ...

Now that Internet Explorer 9 has cooled off the press, we can alas rejoice that all new PC's and mobile devices are supporting HTML5! This brings a new era that aims to refactor the web in a whole new way. As you will see, HTML5 provides us code slimming techniques that make our HTML source code much more easier and functional.

New Structural Tags

The HTML5 specification has added several useful tags for structuring markup. These tags will replace many of the typical div entries from our code.

• <header>

  The header element contains introductory information to a section or page. ...

While it seems like it should be a fairly straightforward task to set up application-wide themes in Silverlight, the ideal solution is a bit elusive. Most of the common solutions have their shortcomings:

1. Use a separate ResourceDictionary for each theme and Add/Remove them from the Application.Resources.MergedDictionaries, but this is not very usable when you want the user to be able to switch themes with a click of the button. All of the controls that have Styles set need to go through the Measure/Arrange process to be styled correctly. This can be a challenge to do application-wide.
2. Use the Silverlight Toolkit ...

That title was a mouthful, I know! Here’s the problem/annoyance I wanted to solve: I often need to copy files to a remote share that requires authentication. The remote share is often accessed through a VPN. Mapping the drive in Windows Explorer takes several steps including re-entering your credentials, and you have to unmap it again later, or else once the VPN is disconnected, Windows Explorer will hang while the mapped drive times out. None of these things make the task impossible, but they do make it fiddly and annoying. In response, I have concocted the following batch script:

setlocal ...

On June 30th, the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Marketplace accepted Falafel’s latest mobile application, “SiteBoard”, a simple and valuable WP7 application for Administrators of the award winning Sitefinity 4 CMS systems.

The application uses the REST API layer in Sitefinity 4 to communicate from WP7 Silverlight app via a data connection.

In this first release, Administrators will be able to:

• Add as many hosts as they would like to manage multiple Sitefinity 4 web applications in different locations.
• Force Logout on users to remedy the maximum user allowed for all versions below Enterprise.
• Publish and unpublish pages from ...