From dev-return-86159-apmail-cocoon-dev-archive=cocoon.apache.org@cocoon.apache.org Wed Apr 05 16:14:46 2006 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-cocoon-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 64344 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2006 16:14:43 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 5 Apr 2006 16:14:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 32081 invoked by uid 500); 5 Apr 2006 16:14:40 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-cocoon-dev-archive@cocoon.apache.org Received: (qmail 31994 invoked by uid 500); 5 Apr 2006 16:14:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@cocoon.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: List-Post: Reply-To: dev@cocoon.apache.org List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@cocoon.apache.org Received: (qmail 31966 invoked by uid 99); 5 Apr 2006 16:14:39 -0000 Received: from asf.osuosl.org (HELO asf.osuosl.org) (140.211.166.49) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:14:39 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (asf.osuosl.org: local policy) Received: from [84.96.21.10] (HELO mail.anyware-tech.com) (84.96.21.10) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:14:38 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.anyware-tech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7337233BF2 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:14:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.anyware-tech.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (trinity [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12871-03 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:14:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.0.0.27] (poukram.anyware [10.0.0.27]) by mail.anyware-tech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5EF633A60 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:14:14 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4433D9CC.2080203@apache.org> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:53:00 +0200 From: Sylvain Wallez User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dev@cocoon.apache.org Subject: Re: The all embarassing presentation email :-) References: <44325920.7040508@thebug.it> In-Reply-To: <44325920.7040508@thebug.it> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at anyware-tech.com X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N 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