Building The Wisconsin Gameday Mobile Application
Being a web application developer in higher education brings with it numerous challenges, not the least of which is the sheer diversity of projects. Case in point: In January 2012 the Athletic...
View ArticleUsing The Docs To Bend Kendo UI To Your Will
Sometimes you have business requirements that are not (gasp) straightforward. In the real world we don't all have a perfectly normalized Northwind databases and simplistic requirements that fit nicely...
View ArticleKnockout.js and Kendo UI - a Potent Duo
Knockout.js is a popular JavaScript framework for building dynamic user interfaces using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. Knockout allows for easy one or two-way synchronization between your...
View ArticleMerry Christmas And Happy Holidays From Kendo UI
You know they don't call it the "most wonderful time of the year" for nothing! We hope that this week brings happiness and peace to you and your families. May you get a break from the blur that life...
View Article[Screencast] Debugging Kendo UI Applications
JavaScript is a beautifully simple and elegant language. It puts virtually no restrictions on what you can do; and since it’s a dynamic language, you can modify it on the fly and debug it right in the...
View ArticleCommon Errors In Kendo UI Applications
As I was putting together the screencast last week for debugging with Kendo UI, I was thinking about all of the common mistakes that I routinely make. Some of them are simple silly errors that come...
View ArticleHTML5 adoption survey 2013 – your opinion matters
Building on the success and warm reception of the HTML5 adoption survey we did last year, the Kendo UI team is now ready for the second edition. We’d love to get your opinions and feedback about the...
View ArticleUsing Kendo UI templates with Backbone
Backbone and Kendo make a beautiful combination as we've already seen. But this dynamic duo doesn't stop with the use of the Kendo control suite. Backbone's flexibility and defining characteristic of...
View ArticleChrome apps accelerated events
Do you know what's better than building a Windows Application? Building a single application that not only runs on Windows, but also runs on Mac. And Linux. AND Chrome OS.Chrome Packaged Apps run...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Kendo UI Q3 2012 Service Pack
Over the last few months, we’ve been working hard to deliver you an awesome Q1 2013 release (which you can read more about, here). Along the way, we figured today was time to drop a Service Pack for Q3...
View ArticleEasy application layout with Twitter Bootstrap
You have probably seen all these nifty Twitter Bootstrap style applications popping up. You know, the ones with the black header menus and blue buttons? If you haven't seen or heard of Twitter...
View ArticleResponsive Design with Twitter Bootstrap
Last week we looked at how Twitter Bootstrap is the perfect compliment to Kendo UI in that it helps you easily lay out your application while taking care of all the tricky CSS that may be happening...
View ArticleLearning kendo.data.DataSource
As a new member of the Kendo UI team, I have a lot to learn. There are more controls, options, framework bits and other features found in Kendo than I had ever dreamed of while using Kendo UI in my...
View ArticleAdding And Removing Items In kendo.data.DataSource
In my previous post I walked through the basic steps to use a kendo.data.DataSource to build a very simple "to do" list. That version of the app was mostly read-only, with the exception of being able...
View ArticleKendo UI at HTML5tx
Looking for a chance to spend your Saturday learning from some amazing HTML5 experts, like Christopher Schmitt, Mike Taylor (Opera), Brian Rinaldi (Adobe), our own Burke Holland, and many more? Then...
View ArticleHead first into Kendo UI For Java Developers
Last quarter we announced the beta release of our JSP wrappers for Kendo UI. These wrappers are JSP and while our demos are built on Spring MVC, you can use the wrappers with any JSP page.They provide...
View ArticleWrapping A Backbone.Collection In A kendo.data.DataSource
In my first post about learning kendo.data.DataSource , a commenter asked me about the differences between this and a Backbone.Collection. He also wondered if there would be any value in creating an...
View ArticleBuilding a better UI – JSP Wrappers part 2
Last week we dove headfirst into Java, Servlets and the Kendo UI JSP Wrappers. This week we'll expand on that experience and explore the most popular and feature rich control in the Kendo UI arsenal -...
View ArticlePHP and Kendo UI
If you've been following me on Twitter you've probably watched a few of my trials and successes in getting PHP up and running on my computer. It's been fun digging in to something that I haven't used...
View ArticleCustom editing in JSP with the Kendo UI Grid
In the last two weeks we have gone from zero to HTML5 hero with the Kendo UI JSP Wrappers. That was corny I know, but lets take a look at what we did in each of the previous two parts...Part 1 (Read...
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