Nine years ago (On May 15th 2003), I had the pleasure and honor of starting Falafel Software from my garage in San Jose, CA.  It has been an amazing and blessed ride so far.  Happy Birthday Falafel! and Congratulations to all Falafel Team Members all around the globe.  I also would like to thank our partners Telerik and SmartBear for our important relationships and most of all our valued friendship.

It is amazing to see how many projects have been completed over the years in so many verticals (medical, military, hospitality, financial, educational and many others) with great success!  I ...

On April 25th 2012, Telerik announced the acquisition of their first Enterprise level Service company, NimblePros.  The press release can be read here.

We are very excited for our friends at NimblePros and Telerik and wish to congratulate them and wish them well on

this initiative to increase the level of in-house support for Telerik’s enterprise level customers.

With the tremendous success Telerik has been enjoying worldwide and phenomenal growth, selling the products was not enough for major Fortune 500 companies everywhere that require a solid commitment and hand holding for architecture advice as well as implementation ...

Today, Falafel Software, the premier Consulting & Training company for Sitefinity worldwide, released a new version of its book “Sitefinity 5 Nuts & Bolts”.

Today, we are proud to announce that the final bits of the conversion of blog.falafel.com are finally in place and the blog site is better and faster than ever.  The final issue that stumped us for the last 10 days was the inability to use LiveWriter to publish blog posts to Sitefinity 5.  After serious GUID debugging, Fiddler and Wireshark sessions, we were able to pin point that the conversion from Sitefinity 3.7 to 5.0 caused a problem regarding the assignment of ONE of the Blogs (MINE ) as far as owner assignment between the OpenAccess37MembershipProvider and the Default one ...

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 ...

It has been over a year now that our team has been working with Sitefinity 4.x, from the first release of 4.0 through the other 9 releases and patches through 2011.

To say the least it has been a very painful year for Falafel to work with Sitefinity 4 and I can add that it has been equally or even more painful for the Sitefinity team at Telerik to go through this painful year with numerous punches from customers, media and experts all the over the place, but most painful probably from their own partners.

From the pricing change ...

In this video, I wish to demonstrate the ability of changing the default workflow in Sitefinity using Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0.  The video is based on the code provided by the Sitefinity SDK here

In the following video, I will demonstrate the ability to do the same from a class library referenced from outside of the Sitefinity Project file system as well.

Please let us know if this video was useful to you and if you would like to see more information and demos on Custom Workflows in the future.

So disappointed in this web site www.amplicate.com.  They are dishonest and falsely represent people’s opinion without their permission or approval.

Few days ago after the release of Sitefinity 4.3, I shared my opinion on twitter about a feature that is still not implemented in 4.3  while using the hashtags #sitefinity and #fail to represent my opinion that it is a shame that these minimal features are still not fixed or implemented in 4.3.

I am a big supporter of Sitefinity, love the product and their team and have nothing but respect and appreciation for Telerik as a company and ...

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.
 
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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 ...

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 ...

Celebrating the ONE year anniversary of our beloved Visual Studio 2010.  Through the years, it is amazing how far Visual Studio has gone with all its anomalies, weaknesses and frustrating points, it is still an extremely powerful IDE and in my humble opinion the best and most productive IDE out there.  Read the details here

Happy Birthday Visual Studio 2010! Can’t wait to start working with Visual Studio 2012

In this video, building a new Template in Sitefinity 4.0 SP1 is demonstrated using a sample template from FreeCssTemplates.org, using Visual Studio 2010.

I demonstrated the reason behind the new location of “WebSiteTemplates” under App_Data and the easiest way to perform the transfer of an existing non-Sitefinity template to Sitefinity 4.0

 Hope you enjoy!

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!

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 ...