In my last blog post about Q3 I forgot to mention two VERY VERY important benefits for customers: firstly, we changed the license agreement and secondly, we started to ship the source of the r.a.d.controls with every purchase of a Subscription license (the one that costs $999 per developer).

Over the last few months many customers contacted us with questions about our redistribution policies as our license agreement wasn't very clear cut about what is acceptable and what isn't. If you remember, I blogged about this not long ago in an attempt to clarify our policies: Demystifying the telerik r.a.d.controls...

It's a late Sunday afternoon (actually, it's Monday as I started the post yesterday). The weather is great, everyone's out as its unusually hot and people are having a great time. I myself am in the office since early morning with part of our team but I love it! It's always really invigorating around releases as everything you've worked on for months stitches together and you can see it in its full beauty. And, for this release, we've got plenty of things coming. I haven't been so excited in a long time and I decided not to be selfish and...

A prospective customer recently commented on our distribution policies and it prompted me to write a blog post and try to explain things in not-so-legal terms.

Possibly because of improper wording on our part many ISVs do not feel comfortable with our terms and conditions when it comes to using our products in a commercial product.

Here's what our agreement says:
"You are not allowed to integrate and distribute the SOFTWARE as part of branded commercial products meant for mass distribution. This is subject to a redistributable license. For more information and inquiries, please contact sales@telerik.com."

I've been re-reading this paragraph over and over while...

It is that time of the year when the summer heat begins to remind us it is the right moment to take off on a road trip for the weekend.  That’s how two colleagues and I decided to visit the cool town of Ohrid in neighboring Macedonia.

It all started on Friday evening with nothing more than our backpacks and a couple of beers to maintain high spirit during the somewhat tedious travel :). We arrived very early on Saturday and were welcomed by the refreshing scent of the Ohrid lake. The lake, the old houses, the monasteries turn the town into...

It's so nice to be back in the office after being nearly a month away. It's hard to catch up as many things happened, however, it was well worth it. It was a very intense and emotional time (at least for me).

TechEd was great and our team had lots of fun. For those of you who were not at TechEd 2006, you can check out some pics in the online Gallery: http://www.telerik.com/Default.aspx?PageId=2833. I would like to use the opportunity to say a BIG "Thank you" to everyone who paid us a visit at the booth. I hope to see many...

I just tried the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor and found out that I'll need to upgrade my graphics adapter in order to enjoy the Windows® Aero™ user interface. The advices which this tool gives are a little bit questionable but you may still find them useful. At least now I have an incentive to upgrade my computer...

I’ve been having this nightmare recently that we’re off track with what customers are looking for in terms of interface design, and I guess the best way to find out how we’re doing is to ask you guys. So I’ve set up a short online survey for all willing to help us feel where the industry is heading and provide feedback for what they need. Your feedback so far is truly encouraging and will be instrumental in crafting our future plans for skin development, interface design and visual presentation of all telerik components. I would strongly encourage all of you...

As some people may already know, we will be releasing a Windows Forms UI suite in Q3 2006. Apart from the semi-official announcement and the magazine ads, we haven't gone into much detail what's so special about our upcoming products.  I'll try to explain the benefits of our WinForms controls in details in several blog posts.

As an introduction, I'd like to mention the key points which the marketing guys found attractive and which formed the marketing message of the winforms suite. I thought you might want to know some of the technical details behind the marketing message:

1. Unique architecture which follows...

I am yet to grasp the marketing behind Microsoft naming conventions - usually a beta program would jump start with a great name, the official launch would kill it in a dull title, and things would finally settle down with an abbreviation that is actually pronounceable. Naming conventions aside, the upcoming Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), formerly known as Avalon, holds promise to become the next buzzword of the industry - even if someone adds to it another sentence before the official roll-out with Windows Vista in early 2007.

From a designer's point of view, the next-generation interface for Windows is all...

It's really sad that Mini-Microsoft is going to stop blogging:
http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/05/all-good-things.html

His/her blog and the user comments were, at least for me, really inspirational and have given me food for thought on numerous topics - from team reviews, to team organization and delivery of software. It was also  a great way to understand what's happening behind the scenes at Microsoft. Knowing part of the problems that plague the Redmond colossus helped me understand how and why Microsoft does things in a certain way.

Mini vNext, where areth thou? We need...