I was looking for an answer. It’s the question, Neo. It’s the question that drives us. It’s the question that brought you here.

This is a quote from the Matrix. Not that I would ever had put a movie quote in my About section if I hadn’t have this idea from a great friend of mine.
I was born in 1985, so do your maths. Great LEGO player in my infancy, I have grown old (old?) using a lot of different OS/Platforms: AMIGA, MacOS 7 and 8, Windows 3.11 and the subsequent (not very successful) attempts to improve it.
The little hacker that lives in my head started to grow when I picked up an HTML manual (that my brother bought for himself and never managed to read) and started messing around with tables and tags in BBEdit. Beside that, my informatic imprinting comes mainly from 2 server/client communication suites, Hotline and Carracho. Inside their networks I met lovely people that really played a very important role in my life. In particular I’d like to wave a hand to Cam, Pinolo and Casanunda: thanks!
I finally landed to the Free software world when I installed Mandrake. Convinced by the insisting invites of the afore-mentioned Pinolo that surprised me with the ease of installation of Apache server (“it’s as simple as typing apt-get install apache php“), I moved to Debian and, after a couple of years of undisruptable loyalty to it, I switched to Ubuntu (I see this as an evolution rather than a betrayal).
On August 2006 I bought a new laptop where I installed Gentoo for the first time in my life. I was forced to choose this distribution for technical reasons but I have been pretty happy tweaking and using it.
Since the day I grabbed that infamous HTML manual I always strived to widen my skills in any directions. As soon as I learnt about the FORM tag existance, I realized I needed a dynamic language to handle the input, so I entered the PHP world.
The little hacker was getting older meanwhile, so I felt like keeping him in form entering some hacker challenges (nothing harmful, just a way to “put your hacking skills to the test through a series of computer security challenges”).
One of them brought me to enter the Topgamers IRC network which later changes its name to Idlemonkeys (mainly because the young people that used to animate it grew up and started idling in the channels because they had something more important to do than beating and discussing challenges – read work). Hat tip to l8nite, Stu, mark and Opa[TROLL] among others.
After some not so delightful attempts to build a working but poor CMS by myself I entered the Drupal world since version 3 and never really left it.
On April 2005 I needed to develop an app to manage some cash/orders at a local festival. At the time I was fascinated by all the great talk everyone was doing about RubyOnRails. It was love at first sight and from that moment on I decided not to accept any PHP job any more, beside Drupal installation and customization (because it’s simple, easy and is a strctured development framework – in a sense- that helps you getting things done fast and clear).
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