Goodbye DotNetToscana

I am a bit sad but it's time for me to step down as a staff member of DotNetToscana.

I co-founded DotNetToscana 7 years ago and since then the community grows a lot (even if honestly not exactly in the direction I wanted).

The main reason of my decision, is because I founded a new .NET community in Cambridge and I want to focus all my energies in making it a success. Secondly, I am now living in UK full-time and I don't have time to make an impact in Italian communities and actively participate in face-to-face events. Because of this, I am not contributing and getting value out of DotNetToscana anymore.

I'd like to thanks all the members of DotNetToscana that over the years helped me to grow a lot as a professional especially Matteo Baglini, Luigi Berrettini and Nicola Baldi. It has been a fantastic experience and I learnt a lot!

My wishes for DotNetToscana is to see more engagement of members on social networks and see interesting discussions. This will allow me as a member to participate to the discussions. I really hope to see this happening as this is for me the essence of a community.

I wish DotNetToscana the best for the future.

Andrea

Webcast: Vuoi essere uno sviluppatore software in Red Gate (UK)?

Giovedi' 13 Novembre 2014

Sede: evento online
Ora: 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker: Andrea Angella

Q/A: Jodie Pinkowski 

Red Gate Software produce "ingeniously simple tools" per professionisti e sviluppatori Microsoft in tutto il mondo. L'azienda e' principalmente specializzata in MS SQL Server, Cloud, .NET e Oracle con l'obiettivo di diventare leader nel Database Lifecycle Management (DLM), la componente database dell' Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Sviluppatori e DBA saranno in grado di trattare database come ogni altra parte dell'applicazione adottando processi di sviluppo moderni, come continuous integration e continuous delivery, per rilasciare spesso e in modo sicuro.

Per raggiungere questo obiettivo ambizioso, Red Gate e' anche alla ricerca di sviluppatori software italiani.

• Ti sei mai chiesto come possa essere l'esperienza di uno sviluppatore software in UK?
• Sei alla ricerca di un ambiente di lavoro piu' stimolante e gratificante che possa veramente farti crescere professionalmente?
• Sei alla ricerca di un migliore bilanciamento tra lavoro e vita privata?
• Stai considerando la possibilita' di fare una esperienza all'estero?

Andrea Angella e' un italiano che lavora in UK da 5 anni e presentera' tutti i vantaggi di lavorare in Red Gate dando risposta a molte delle domande che un italiano si pone prima di compiere il grande passo. Durante l'intero webcast, la responsabile delle risorse umane, Jodie Pinkowski, sara' a disposizione per rispondere direttamente alle vostre domande (Only In English).

Iscriviti all'evento

Advanced Algorithms #1 - Union/Find on Disjoint-set Data Structures.

Code
https://github.com/angellaa/AdvancedAlgorithms

Webcast (in Italian)

Slides

DotNetToscana is Community of the Year 2013

I am pleased to announce that DotNetToscana has been awarded by Microsoft as Community of the Year 2013.

My sincere congratulations to all the members of the staff and all of our followers and supporters.

This is the picture taken during the Microsoft Community Lead Summit with Marco Minerva, our community lead, and Marco Dal Pino recently awarded as Nokia Developer Champion for Windows Phone.

Well done!

DotNetToscana - Goals, Principles and Values

I recently wrote a post about the incredible growth of DotNetToscana and I am really proud of this.

Since the last post we already had three new members:

• Davide Benvegnu
• Federico Barsotti
• Emanuele Bartolesi

We are now 14 people and we are all really good friends.

I would like to share some of the slides taken from the last event Javascript Full Immersion about the goals, principles and values of our community.

The Rapid Growth of DotNetToscana

I am absolutely impressed by the rapid growth of the .NET community in Tuscany that I contributed to found in 2008. At the time, we were three passionate people with the dream to create a community of developers around the Microsoft .NET technologies with the ultimate goals of learning together by sharing knowledge and experience.

This quick interview has been taken by the Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Pietro Brambati in Florence the day we launched the community at the Microsoft Days 2008 Conference.

In 2013 we are now the Official Microsoft Community in Tuscany part of the new Microsoft Technical Communities program.

I would like to thank you all the members of the staff for the great technical skills and impressive enthusiasm they bring everyday to the community. In addition, all of them, are people I can call "friends" and this is an additional value of doing community.

This is the full list of people that are currently part of the staff:

• Marco Minerva (co-founder and the Community Lead)
• Matteo Baglini (co-founder)
• Andrea Angella (co-founder)
• Michela Tassi (from 2009)
• Mario Martellini (from 2009)
• Nicola Baldi (from 2011)
• Luigi Berrettini (from 2011)
• Dario Chini (from 2011)
• Emiliano Idà (from 2012)
• Marco Dal Pino (from 2012)
• Massimo Iacolare (from 2012)

We also have an official polo shirt...

...and many many sponsors:

This is the list of events we delivered in 2012. I would say awesome!

In conclusion, I would like to thanks all the people that attended our events. Without them DotNetToscana couldn't be what it is now. Thank you!

More info on the official website: http://www.dotnettoscana.org

We often write in English. You can find us in all the major social networks:

• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Google+
• Twitter

I wish all the best for for the community and surely I will continue to give my little contribution to its future success.

DotNetToscana and Gadgeteer

Saturday 12 May there was a DotNetToscana event about Gadgeteer and .NET Micro Framework. I was in Italy that time and I participated. I really have to say that the event was great. Gadgeteer represent a very interesting platform for creating prototypes and simply for having fun. The various modules are still quite expensive but in the future I could maybe try to do something in this area especially to put under test some of my new knowledge about artificial intelligence.

The most interesting part of the day was when we moved a rover.

We saved that moment in a video :)

Here few pictures:

For other pictures, videos, material about the event you can visit the following page:
http://www.dotnettoscana.org/net-micro-framework-presenta-gadgeteer.aspx

A big thanks to Marco Minerva and Marco Dal Pino for preparing and running this brilliant event.

DotNetToscana - RSS Feed

It is a pleasure to announce that the DotNetToscana RSS Feed is now online!


If you want to know the latest news, upcoming events and the activities from the official Microsoft .Net community in Tuscany, don't wait and subscribe to it.


This is the direct link for subscription:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/dotnettoscana 

DotNetToscana - WP7 3D Lab

Hello,

Last week in Pisa there has been the Windows Phone 7 3D Lab organized by DotNetToscana and leaded by Nicola Baldi. Unfortunately I couldn't participate to the event but it seems that people really enjoyed playing with the hard concepts behind the 3D rendering.

Here few pictures from the event:

More pictures are available in the community official web site:
http://www.dotnettoscana.org/wp7-3d-game-lab-photo-gallery.aspx

The source code of the game will be release soon. Stay tuned

DotNetToscana 2012 Spring Events

In this post, I would like to announce the next events organised by my .NET community in Italy called DotNetToscana.
The next 17th March 2012 there will be the "Windows Phone 7 3D Lab". In this lab, Nicola Baldi is introducing how to develop a 3D game in XNA using the Windows Phone platform. During the lab, a simple but real game will be created step by step in order to learn all the main important aspects of creating a game. The event will be in Pisa, Italy. You can find more information on the DotNetToscana official website.

In April 19th, instead, there will be an important event in collaboration with Microsoft called Start Something! Tour – Windows 8 e Windows Phone 7.5. This day is created for people that want to create and test their applications on Windows Phone (in partnership with Nokia) and/or on Windows 8 Tablets. This is not a step by step lab, but a way to bring passionate developers together and build awesome software with the help of the Microsoft experts and the DotNetToscana stuff members. You can find more information on the DotNetToscana official website.

We have already an idea for an event in May but it is too early to say something... stay tuned :)

I am constantly giving my contribution in order to make these events a success but I am a little sad that I will not be able to participate this time. As you know, I am now living in UK and I can't always be present to all of our events. Anyway, I am very proud to be part of this growing community and I am sure that over time will become the reference point for .NET professionals in Tuscany.

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Unit Test Lab il 24 Settembre 2011 – Tenetevi pronti

Ciao a tutti,
appena prima delle meritate vacanze estive DotNetToscana vuole rivelare alcuni dettagli del prossivo evento laboratorio.

La data à già stata fissata a Sabato 24 Settembre 2011 mentre il luogo deve ancora essere confermato.

Il laboratorio sarà guidato da Matteo Baglini mentre gli altri membri dello staff forniranno supporto tecnico ai partecipanti.


Segue una breve descrizione dell’evento:

Uno degli aspetti più controversi dello sviluppo software è sicuramente il test.
Pratica da molti reputata importante per ottenere un software di qualità ma allo stesso tempo snobbata. La realtà è che gli sviluppatori preferiscono progettare e realizzare il software piuttosto che testarlo lasciando quest'ultimo compito al team di tester. Esistono molteplici tipologie di test, lo Unit Test è uno di questi e rappresenta uno strumento importante per i tester, ma soprattutto per gli sviluppatori. Durante questo laboratorio potrai provare con mano la pratica dello Unit Test e trovare risposta alle tipiche domande: perchè, come e quando effettuare Unit Test. Imparerai i principi che guidano lo Unit Test passando dalla teoria alla pratica, applicando questa tecnica in svariati contesti.
Maggiori dettagli seguiranno alla fine del mese,

Buone vacanze a tutti,

Vi aspettiamo,

Andrea