Simone Gianni wrote: > Hello everybody all and thanks to all of you for voting me as a > committer. > > I'm so excited to become part of the ASF, expecially within the > cocoon project who driven my web developing experience in the last 6 > years. I wanted to let you know something about myself as per the > Cocoon tradition: I assume you all know how embarassing it is to talk > about oneself, so I'll just get on with some random notes. :) > > I'm 27 and I live in Rome, Italy. I started programming when i was > about 7 with C64. It happened for a simple and completely random > situation : i received a C64 and a game, inside the C64 box there were > two manuals, a short one to run the game, and a big one teaching basic > programming.
A question: what language where these books written in: English or Italian? I'm always amazed to see kids learning to program right after learning to read. Computers weren't widespread when I was 7 (that was in 1974) and I "only" started at 13, having already some english background. > I tried the small one, but since the game wasn't working i tried to > read the big one and simply type what was written there, but it took > time (and a lot of LOGO programming) to discovered why 10 print "ciao" > 20 goto 10 caused a lot of "ciao" on my screen :) > > I decided not to attend university and started working as a freelance. > Perl first and PHP/mysql then were the leading technologies back in > 1997. For another incredibly random situation, I arrived in Milan in > march 2000 to work for Bibop Research, which some of you might > remember, where I had the incredible opportunity to work with Gianugo > Rabellino, Ricardo Rocha and meet people like Stefano Mazzocchi and > many other very skilled guys. I left Bibop a few months later, but > this experience pushed me into Cocoon. Wow, Bibop again? Looks like Cocoon wouldn't have been there if Bibop had not existed :-) > I currently own a small company, and we work mainly with Cocoon. In > the last couple of years we've been collaborating a lot with Pronetics > (and from now on with Sourcesense) on intranet applications heavily > based on cocoon-forms (a corporate banking and an administration > system for a university, a total of about 300 cocoon forms, being the > leading projects), binding directly on backend beans, so actually my > main area of interest is cocoon forms and more specifically it's > interaction with beans and backend persistence (with a strong focus on > Hibernate lately). Cool. I understand now your interest in CForms! > But I'll not limit my work to this field, I look forward to help out > consolidating, improving and expanding this great framework, and I'm > thrilled to be part of this incredible community. Thanks again to > everyone who voted me: I consider being over here a great accomplishment. Eh, welcome aboard Simone! Sylvain -- Sylvain Wallez http://bluxte.net Apache Software Foundation Member
