Marco Borromeo
  • a software developer :)
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  • 2008 review

    • Left Yahoo! to work for a startup, Mobango (hey, we are hiring!)
    • Learned a lot about scalability and cloud computing
    • Improved my Ruby on Rails skills, developing personal projects during spare time
    • Learned fundamentals of Erlang
    • Started loving document-oriented databases
    • Used Google App Engine, and i found it a great platform (still too young however)
    • Became a fan of Amazon Web Services (ec2/s3/simpledb/SQS), GitHub, Sandy (put offline some week ago :()
    • I got me an Apple iPhone, and i find it great! I learned to code for it, obviously
    • 3 of my friends bought a MacBook, and i helped them during the switch from a PC
    • Found “Extreme programming” and “Agile software development” very interesting and productive
    • My grandma passed away, and this is a sad story
    • Continuously looked for a new house, sounds like i found it
    • Fallen in love with Team Fortress 2 (Spy FTW)
    • Put myself on diet, and i lost 20Kg
    • Things-to-do overload has been a constant
    • Got in touch with cool and skilled people
    • Made a huge culture about entrepreneurship, startups, foundings, business plans
    A good year, after all.