Welcome to Mad about .NET

First off, my name is Jose Fco Bonnin, and I am the Product Development Manager of Payvision, an international payment solutions provider that specializes in multi-currency processing for card-not-present electronic transactions.

Behind my manager role there is a geek who tries to contribute to the .NET community in several ways, I'm Ineta Country Leader and Culminis Country Lead Volunteer for Spain. Therefore, as you probably deducted from the title, the blog subject will not be payment solutions, but the .NET Framework and other related technologies.

Here I want to share my thoughts and opinions regarding this lovely development platform and its community.

I can't finish this first post without thank to the guys of BlogEngine.NET and STUDIO7DESIGNS

I hope you decide bear with me and enjoy reading the posts.

Regards,

Jose.

Finally, it seems I will be able to attend to several sessions of the TechDays in Madrid. If you want to join me, you will be more than welcome.

Here is my agenda.

Agenda: 26/02
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14:00 - 14:30 (Sala Mónaco): Hands-On Lab. Visual Studio: Práctica de Desarrollo Dirigido por Pruebas (TDD, Test-Driven Development). Colabora: Danysoft

15:00 - 15:45 (Sala Madrid): Entity Framework a fondo.

16:25 - 16:55 (Auditorio EXPO): Optimización de rendimiento en SQL Server 2008

16:45 - 17:30 (Sala Amsterdam): Hands-On Lab. SQL Server 2008: novedades para Desarrolladores de Bases de Datos

17:30 - 18:15 (Sala Amsterdam): Hands-On Lab. SQL Server 2008: novedades de Business Intelligence

18:00 - 19:00 (Sala París): WCF a fondo

Agenda: 27/02
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09:45 - 11:00 (Sala Roma): SQL Server 2008: Aplicaciones de Misión Crítica sobre Plataformas de Datos fiables.

12:30 - 13:15 (Area Visual Studio): Pregunta al Experto: 10 Errores más comunes al usar Team Foundation Server

15:40 - 16:20 (Sala Berlín): ALM: Scrum y Team Sytem en la vida real. Presenta: Rodrigo Corral. Plain Concepts

16:30 - 18:00 (Auditorio A): Sesión plenaria Gran Final The Evolution {Game},
20 Años de Innovación, con Rosa Garcia, Presidenta Microsoft Iberica
Mesa redonda con líderes del Sector

18:00 - 19:00 (Auditorio A): Steve Ballmer en directo desde Los Angeles (California, EE.UU)

19:00 - 24:00 (Auditorio A): {The Evolution Party}.Gran Fiesta de celebración del 20 Aniversario de Microsoft en España.

I initiated this blog one year ago with the intention to write basically about .NET. I started very enthusiastic and having clear that I didn't want to write just about which products come out or what other blogger said before. But reviewing the posts of this past year I've figured out that I've not been as prolific as I would like and that some of my posts really suck. I mean, I already knew it but when you see the numbers is when you face the truth (I only reached an average of 3 posts per month). I guess that sometimes one does not have time enough and/or just does not find the right inspiration, in any case below you can see my top 10 list of posts based on the web visits received. Obviously the "post competition" is not fair, since the oldest is the post the more possibilities has to be visited, but doesn't really matter.

By the way, I don't understand why the number one received this amazing amount of web visits, who knows what people expected to find when searching how to hook a keyboard and mouse ;)

Let's see what comes out in 2008.

I would like to start my blog doing a brief presentation about why I start with it and what you would find here.

For a long time I wanted to develop just for fun and to contribute with my modest knowledge about .NET in forums, user groups, etc. but I never find the time or the energy to continue writing code (at least useful code) in front of a computer after the long working days…probably you know what I mean.

So, here I am, the New Year is almost there together with lot of good intentions, normally people want to do diets, go to the gym (I already left this idea too many years ago), etc. My good intention for 2007 is to dedicate more time to develop by passion and not only to work.

I hope you join me in this blog from time to time and that you find interesting what I write.

PS: Probably you have already noticed that English is not my mother tongue, so I hope you don’t feel upset when I destroy your lovely language.