A Vision is Not Enough, and a Poorly Defined Vision is Worse

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For any product group or organization to be successful they must know where they are going and how they are going to get there. I’m not talking about the product backlog or the release schedule – I am talking about something more abstract than that. Within the DNA of any product group or organization there […]

Icenium v1.1 Now Available

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Today I am proud to announce the first update to Icenium since our v1 launch a month and a half ago. As a cloud-based solution, we have always planned for a regular cadence of product and service updates – continuous delivery of value, if you will. This v1.1 release represents our first step toward establishing […]

Introducing Icenium – an Integrated Cloud Environment for Hybrid Mobile App Development

Icenium integrates Apache Cordova to enable cross-platform mobile application development for iOS and Android devices.

Today is a day that my team and I have been looking forward to for a long time. Today I am happy to announce that Icenium, an Integrated Cloud Environment (ICE) for hybrid mobile app development, is now available to everyone! The Story Begins Back in July 2011, I left Microsoft and joined Telerik to […]

Should You Go Hybrid?

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Over the past week, since we released the first beta of Icenium, I’ve been talking with lots of web and mobile web developers who are either starting to develop apps for mobile devices, or who are going to be starting soon. These folks, who are new to building apps that run on devices, have lots […]

Telerik Interview Series: Doug Seven at TechEd 2012


While at TechEd 2012 NA I had the pleasure of sitting down with Richard Campbell of the Tablet Show for a short discussion on some of the exciting technologies being talked about, and my thoughts on cross-platform mobile development. Telerik Interview Series: Doug Seven at TechEd 2012 – YouTube

We Need Developer Tools, Not Platform Development Tools


It’s been almost a year since I left my role at Microsoft as Director of Product Management for Visual Studio. Ever since I left, I’ve had lots of people asking what I am working on now, and I’ve been pretty quiet about it (the running joke is that I am the VP of Black Ops). […]

There are Only Two Kinds of Device Apps

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Just the other day a colleague and I were having an interesting discussion. After a while we realized we were talking about the same things but we each used different vocabulary to describe the things we were referring to. I hate when that happens. I thought it would be useful to provide a common definition for […]

Telerik’s Q1 Release is Coming!

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Registration for Telerik’s Q1 release webinar week is now open! Does this seem a bit early to you? If it does you are very observant, the release is coming out one month earlier than usual (we are shifting our releases based on your feedback…see, we really do listen). It’s time for all .NET Ninjas to […]

Build: Day 0

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Here I am at the Starbucks in the Marriott Anaheim, which is connected to the Convention Center where Build will take place beginning tomorrow. Already people are milling about and I’ve seen a few friends and former colleagues (in fact, Dave Mendlen, my old boss, and the new CMO for DevExpress, gave me a ride from […]

My (New) Life as a MacOS X User


Now that I no longer work at Microsoft, I have the opportunity to try new things. Today I begin a journey to see what life on the other side of the pendulum looks like. Today I begin my life as a non-Microsoft web developer. Don’t get me wrong, I still love Microsoft, but I want to see what life on the other side is like. Don’t worry Ballmer, this isn’t permanent. I’ll be back…after all, the company I work for makes its business building and selling tools, controls and extensions to Microsoft products.