The .Net frog

Hi guys, welcome on this new blog!

Like many people, I learned a lot by reading posts from various very good writers (Think Jeremy Miller, JP Boodhoo, Martin Fowler, and dozens of others!). Since I discovered their blogs, their knowledge has always been useful to me. Even if I don't know them personally, they helped me a lot in improving my skills as a developer. In a few words, I owe them a lot!

Starting this blog is a way to try repaying my debt to the community as a whole at my humble level. As a matter of fact, I feel that there's still a lot to do to improve the way we do software development. Even if there are some excellent books and articles available on internet, most people I've been working with have always been foreigners to topics such as design patterns, testing, agiles methodologies, etc. Even if I don't have the expertise of all the people above (and I also don't claim to master any of these topics myself!), hopefully, I'll be able to convey good practices and ideas too. Who knows, maybe I'll even make a small difference around me! :)

Let me also give you a quick background about myself. I'm a French guy working as a .NET developer in the financial industry. I spent the last year in London working for a hedge-fund, and I moved back to Paris in February where I started a new job in a consulting company. Before that, I was studying computer science in a French engineering school which also lead me to do several internships. I also started a company during that time but it's an old story! Bottom line: I'm still very young and I still have a lot to learn!

Finally, while I'm here, I also apologize in advance for all the spelling mistakes that I'll do in my posts. Please feel free to correct me whenever you spot one (that is probably every 5 words!).

See you!

By the way, I'm also opening a french version of this blog here: www.thedotnetfrog.fr