Today, we’re starting a new, monthly series that highlights notable activity in the Kendo UI Labs, including new projects, updates and key contributors.

If you haven't yet heard about Bower, it is essentially a node module built by Twitter and is billed as a "package manager for the web". It's dead simple, and that's the reason you are going to love it.

With the Q1 2013 release of Kendo UI, there were several new components added to better facilitate Single Page Application (SPA) development. Since the release, I've been building sample applications, writing blog posts and creating screencasts to cover these new framework pieces. Find the best places to learn and get your SPA on, with these links.

This week, some of us at Telerik are attending Google I/O in San Francisco. We're not just attending though, we've been invited into the Sandbox for the second year in a row to show off some of the really amazing things that the engineering team has been doing both with HTML5, and Mobile. This includes not just Kendo UI, which has become a world class framework for HTML5 web and mobile development, but also the brand new Icenium platform for seamlessly building cross-platform mobile applications built on Cordova.

Over the last few months, we’ve been working hard to deliver you an awesome Q2 2013 release (which you can read more about, here. Along the way, we figured today was good time to drop a Service Pack for Q1 2013, which includes a bunch of new features and a boatload of fixes. In this blog post, I’ll highlight a few of things we’ve added in this release.

This luxurious SPA life can be difficult. It can lead to some #FirstWorldProblems. What if I want to get started with my treatments and therapy, but I have to stop in the middle and come back later? I don't want to re-start the procedure that I've already started. I would rather return to the same therapist and pick up where I left off.

If you have been following JavaScript development, you might have seen a lot of posts on modules. It's a hot topic in JavaScript and it's easy to jump on a bandwagon. The truth is that the problem that needs to be solved is very fundamental to the success of your code.

On my last visit to the SPA, I introduced the new kendo.View and showed some of the use cases and API calls for it. This second visit will include a weekend package with a room, and a relaxation session with DOM replacement therapy. I'll introduce the kendo.Layout and show how it enhances the massage techniques of the kendo.View.

Custom MVVM binders are a powerful part of the Kendo UI MVVM framework. Making basic custom binders isn’t too difficult.

Rich user experiences with HTML5 applications can cause some difficulties for teams trying to get solid user interface (UI) testing around their apps. Interacting with video or audio elements is often troublesome, and the manipulations of a web page’s document object model (DOM) on the fly via asynchronous alterations causes automation frameworks (and automaters!) endless grief in the attempt to get subtle timing issues stabilized.