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    Cracking Sudoku

    Tackling problems and coding solutions for them is an essential part of the job of a software engineer like myself. The only problem with this is that sometimes work becomes a little boring and repetitive. With some tasks you can even begin to feel a little like a brainless code monkey that knows how to do its job very well, but lacks the stimulation of problems that appeal to the creative capabilities of the brain. Enter the Sudoku! I have always liked logical puzzles as a kid (and adult too) and when I was first introduced to sudoku I was immediately...
    January 09, 2006 3 min read
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    Go for the Gold - telerik renews Gold Certified Partner status

    Today we finally renewed our Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Program. It was a bigger pain to go through all the steps and complete all requirements than it was last year, but I am very happy that everything is all set again. Now that everything is official we will be able to put the following text on our site:"Microsoft Gold Certified Partners are the elite Microsoft Business Partners who earn the highest customer endorsement. They have the knowledge, skills, and commitment to help implement technology solutions that match your exact business needs." Impressive, huh?:) Don't worry, we won't put it on...
    January 04, 2006 1 min read
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    I am a published author!!!

    It's official now: I am a co-author of a real paper book. The book is titled ???????????? ?? .NET Framework (.NET Framework programming) and it is written in Bulgarian. I am holding it right now -- it is a bit heavy (800+ pages for the first part), but holding it feels good. The first part has been published and we are expecting the second part really soon. The cool thing is that the book is distributed under a free license and you can download the text in DOC or PDF format from the site. The book is an introductory-level text, aimed for the beginner programmers. Most...
    December 16, 2005 2 min read
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    Making ASP.NET XHTML 1.1 compliant

    As you may know, all components from the r.a.d.controls suite render XHTML 1.1 compliant output. We wanted to promote it in a way that all users can click a button in our online examples and see for themselves that everything validates perfectly. W3C provides an online validation service (http://validator.w3.org) so it should not be that hard. Unfortunately ASP.NET 1.x complies with *NO* HTML standard ever approved by W3C. ASP.NET 2.0 was first XHTML 1.1 compliant, but then in the official release Microsoft fell back to XHTML 1.0 transitional which is less restrictive. I made a couple of Google searches and found other people...
    December 09, 2005 3 min read
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    The life and death of r.a.d.designer

    After three years of good service, r.a.d.designer will be discontinued. As of r.a.d.controls Q4 2005 SP1 next week, the product will no longer be part of the ASP.NET suite. Wondering why we decided to do it? A bit of history... r.a.d.designer was telerik's third product after r.a.d.editor and r.a.d.menu. It was born out of an experimental project and it's initial goal was very different from what it is today - it had to be a tool that allows you to put stuff in containers and move them around. It was supposed to be very close to what r.a.d.dock does. Back in time...
    November 30, 2005 3 min read