telerik

I have recently spent some time with Telerik's new product offering for cross mobile development called Icenium and I have to say it is quite nice.  Paired with KendoUI Mobile you can't go wrong with a great set of tools for cross mobile platform development if you are an HTML + CSS + JavaScript developer. IceniumIcenium is a cloud based IDE, there is also a Windows WPF Click-Once app, that allows you as a developer to leverage your existing HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills to develop hybrid cross mobile platform applications.  Assistance of publishing your applications to the Google Play and Apple Store, integrated debugging and development environment, source control integration (including Git) and much more.  See http://www....

From February 1 through June 2013, publish a new Windows 8 or Windows Phone app and enter my sweepstakes page to win up to $1000 in cash prizes.  WHAT?!?!   Pretty cool right.  Get extra $$ for what you are already doing.  Publish you app in the store the go to http://spboyer.me/appsforcash and submit your app. 3 Winners each month! $1000 $500 $250 Follow me on twitter @spboyer and let me know when you submit it and I'll personally look at the app and give it a review and let all my friends to give it a look as well for extra exposure. See official rules here BONUS POINTS AND AWARDS FREE NOKIA PHONE If this is your FIRST...

I will be giving two talks this Saturday at Tampa Code Camp, being held at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fl.  For directions and more information visit http://www.tampacodecamp.com. Schedule for other sessions here.   My Sessions Introduction to ASP.NET Web API - Why you should be using it. 9:50 AM in Room 1102This is an introduction to ASP.NET WebAPI and how easy it is to get started and use it in your application development when building RESTful services. Building Windows 8 Apps w/ MVVM Light 2:20 PM in Room 1301 MVVM Light is a great toolkit for building Window Phone applications and has been updated for building...

Introduction Telerik recently released their Windows 8 UI Controls to RC on September 18th (see post here), and this is probably on the first in a series of posts I will put out showing them off. The first control here is the RadCustomHubTile.  I chose this because I am in the process of porting my Find Amber app from Windows Phone to Windows 8 and I wanted to transition the app without drifting too far from the spirit of the original app.  [](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OoJxg94Y9sg/UFtzIhwbmQI/AAAAAAAAAU8/_9KJDXTNF2g/s1600/promoimage.png)RadControls from Telerik used here for Current List and Search...

Find Amber Available for Windows Phone Find Amber has finally been approved and is now available in the Windows Phone Store! This project is close to me, and not in a "I have lost a child" way thank God. But I do have children and if something were to happen to any of them I can't imagine what it would be like. There are ways to get this information but generally it is slow to deliver. Television, Radio, etc. but these delivery mechanisms are allow but allow for detail. In contrast, there is a text message service and/or the road signs that are available which solves the speed of delivery but the content is lacking. My solution was to...