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Month: January 2015

Building Mobile Apps Native VS Hybrid

Hello, I am Justin Tindle a Senior Consultant at KiZAN Technologies and I will be providing a guest entry on “Building Mobile Apps Native VS Hybrid.”  This post builds on top of Mike Branstein’s “5 Ways to Get Started with Mobile Apps Today” post.  There is a lot of confusion around building mobile apps and what path to take for development. In this post, you will…

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MVC Validation Extensions 1.1.2 Released

I’m pleased to release another update to my MVC Validation Extensions.  This update is once again focused on adding more functionality to the package via the following validation attribute: RequiredIfAnyValue This attribute builds upon the previous update where we created required fields based on another field’s value.  Now we are able to require a field if another field is on…

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Franken Apps

I recently finished a video about Franken Apps. The video is a follow-up to my previous post on Technical Debt, but with a “creepy” feel. What the Heck are Franken Apps? Franken Apps are typically older applications that either run everything in your business or applications that touch every other system and department. Franken Apps start as new applications, designed and developed to…

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5 Ways to Get Started with Mobile Apps Today

A lot of businesses have trouble getting started with mobile app development because it’s typically considered an “IT” initiative – everyone is looking to IT for guidance and recommendations on what we can do with “mobile”, because they feel it’s technical. Here’s an insiders secret: mobile apps aren’t about the technology, instead they’re really about ideas and creativity. In this post, I’ll…

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MVC Validation Extensions 1.1 Released

Tonight I’ve released a small update the MVC Validation Extensions.  In this updated I’ve added a new validation attribute: RequiredIfValue This attribute will cause the property to be required only if the value of the other property is equal to the specified value. Example Usage [RequiredIfValue(“RequiredIntControl”, “15”)] public int? SomeRequiredIfValue { get; set; } In this example SomeRequiredIfValue will be…

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