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    Customer of the month

    We don't have an award for "Customer of the Month", but the guys from PCTS (www.pcts.com) would definitely qualify for the award. Guys, thanks for the commitment and for the "advertising on wheels"! If you are using our products in an interesting fashion, or you would like to join the club of "TELERIK" license plate holders, make a quick comment here or drop us a line using any of the means you find most convenient on telerik.com. We will be glad to come up with a nice way to reward your...
    March 06, 2006 1 min read
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    It's time for MCPD!

    As rumor has it, we have quite a few MCSDs on our team and we like to keep our skills sharp. With the release of .NET 2.0 we anticipated a change in the Microsoft certs. We were anxiously waiting for details about MCSD.NET (2.0?), but alas... Good ole MCSD became "deprecated" and you have to get ready for "The Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Enterprise Applications Developer" (http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcpd/entapp/).Wow.. that definitely sounds as if you are getting a pretty good ROI compared to the plain MCSD. You become a "Professional Developer" and you add the magic "Enterprise" word to your credentials. The only problem is how to...
    February 21, 2006 1 min read
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    John Papa, interviewing tips, and the interviews at telerik

    John Papa's post with interviewing tips is an excellent read: I also share John's belief that the tech skills won't get you the job. At least at telerik they won't. The tech skills are just a prerequisite to get you to an interview. Typically, at the interviews in our company we don't ask a lot of technical questions. We do so only in case we are not 100% certain that what the person has written in his/her resume is true. Once we get past that, we spend most of the time trying to understand the person on the other side...
    February 06, 2006 4 min read
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    Egoless coding

    Earlier today my colleague Rumen posted a link to this great blog post by J Atwood from Vertigo Software: http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/jatwood/archive/2006/01/24/The_Ten_Commandments_of_Egoless_Programming.aspx. I thought I should share it with our community as the ego of people, and especially that of the most knowledgeable and top performing people, is THE biggest problem of any organization. It kills teamwork, it doesn't leave room for self-improvement and it blinds the people, making them unaware of the context in which they are working. That's actually one of the reasons why we have our own commandment - if you are working for telerik, you have to leave your ego outside of the office door....
    January 25, 2006 1 min read
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    www.telerik.com now runs MondoSearch

    Over the last couple of years we've heard quite a few complaints that it's not easy to find your way around www.telerik.com and that information is scattered. I myself have been amazed how much content is there but nobody knows about it. Responding to the growing pressure from customers and our team we have been re-working our corporate site over the last few months. One part of our efforts was (and continues to be) to improve www.telerik.com structure and content. The other part of the solution was to add powerful search capabilities to our web property. Once there was a clear need for...
    January 10, 2006 2 min read