Last week was our second week at AcceleratorHK and things are starting to fall into a good cadence. On Monday, we had our first of the weekly 1:1 meetings and Paul and I worked directly with the teams on the issues that they face. We also had two amazing mentors come in:

First was Salim Virani, the creator of Leancamp. He talked to us about Customer Development and took a lot of time out of his vacation time in HK to spend with the teams on how to ask the right Customer Discovery and Customer Validation questions.

Later in the week we had Mikaal Abdulla, co-founder of 8 Securities, a Hong...

Introduction

Hello everyone! I’m sure by now you’ve heard the news from //Build/ that Telerik has released its Windows Phone 8 controls and this release includes several new components:

• Speech Recognition – Allows your end-users to navigate and interact with your app using their voice.
• MultiResolutionImage – Windows Phone 8 supports new display resolutions up to 1280x768 and Telerik RadControls make it easy for developers to display the appropriate images in their apps, according to the device resolution through this control.
• DataForms – This new component allows you to automatically generate the UI for your input forms, with support for validation and...

I have been frustrated by Intellisense acting up when working on WinJS Windows Store applications.  Figure 1 is just an example of the quirky behavior that I’ve been experiencing:

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Fortunately, the fix is extremely easy, and I picked it up from Adam Freeman’s book on Apress “Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with HTML5 and Javascript”

Add references in your JavaScript files to ui.js and base.js.  You can do this by dragging the files from your solution explorer.  They are located by expanding Windows Library for JavaScript 1.0, and then the “js”  folder.  Make sure you include the triple swack at...

The Telerik Control Panel introduced a new and efficient way to install and update Telerik products. The Q3 2012 release makes it easier than ever to keep your Telerik products up-to-date with notifications and more customization.

If you are unfamiliar with the Telerik Control Panel, you can learn more about its standard features and how it enhances the Telerik Experience in Introducing the Telerik Control Panel.

When you open the Control Panel to update your products for the Q3 release, this screen appears.

The updater updates itself, and it brings features to make your Telerik experience that much better.

Options Abound

After installing the update,...

In our previous blog posts on the JustCode Formatter, we’ve showed you what it is and how it works. If you haven’t read those yet, please see our post on "Introducing the Formatter" and "Comparing the JustCode Formatter to the Visual Studio Formatter".

One of our design goals was to make sure the Formatter is much more customizable than Visual Studio’s, and in this post, we will show you how easy it is to customize it.

What are the Code Style settings?

When you utilize JustCode’s refactorings, expand code templates, format and/or clean your code, or make other changes to your code, JustCode...

I am happy to be part of the organizing committee for the Agile Tour in Hong Kong on December 1st. I also convinced Telerik to send me 30kg of Tee-shirts for attendees of the event. Details are below, register today, space is limited (only about 30 seats left)!

EventBrite Link to register: http://agiletour2012hongkong.eventbrite.com

AGILE TOUR 2012 COMING TO HONG KONG DECEMBER 1, 2012

Welcome all,

Agile Tour is finally coming to Hong Kong! We organize a full day with international and local expert speakers on a variety of Agile topics:

Title : How to suck less with distributed teams
Speaker : Emerson Mills
Abstract:

We all know that distributed teams suck. (...

Introduction

My good friend Michael Crump showed how to create an Appointment Tracking app with the RadDatePicker and RadTimePicker in this excellent post. I’m going to start where Michael left off, adding additional business rules and logic by interacting with controls.

If you haven’t read his post, you can download the project from here. I will start from this project to add in the additional functionality.

Design Goals

Imagine that the business has approached the development team and is complaining that users are selecting departure dates that are prior to the arrival date, and there is a desire to make the scheduler more “user...

This past weekend was the 3rd Startup Weekend in Hong Kong and I was lucky enough to return again as a judge. This year it was huge with 14 teams competing!

As usual, I was very impressed by the ideas, hard work, and execution. They stared on Friday night with lots of pitches and team formation. The group worked all day Saturday and Sunday at the CoCoon co-working space in Hong Kong (the same co-work space AcceleratorHK is using). A few AcceleratorHK cohort members as well as program director Paul Orlando were helping out as mentors.

On Sunday night we all gathered to a different venue where we heard all of...

Phil Japikse, Michael Crump and I set out to create three related applications from scratch.  That is, a Windows 8 version written in XAML with C# (me), a Windows 8 version written in JavaScript (Phil) and a Windows 8 Phone version (Michael). 

The idea behind the application was summed up in an email by Phil, paraphrased here:

• The main goal of the application is to show off our controls
• The business purpose of the application is to allow Telerik Evangelists to gather information from conference attendees

The design will allow us to:

• Enter demographic information for raffle registration
• Enter demographic information for...

Introduction

Hello everyone!

As you may have read in the latest issue of the Telerik Newsletter, we are proud to announce a brand new XAMLFlix episode on RadPivotGrid. In case you haven’t heard, XAMLFlix is a video series devoted to getting you up to speed quickly with our Telerik controls for WPF and Silverlight. In this episode, we will take a look at what RadPivotGrid Beta for WPF has to offer, with three short videos. So grab some coffee and let’s get started!

What Is RadPivotGrid?

RadPivotGrid is a control used to aggregate millions of records in a concise tabular format. The data can be easily...