About

Simone Pezzano lives in Udine, Italy and works as Platform Developer for Usablenet inc. ( http://www.usablenet.com ).
Information technology has always been part of his life since he was a kid, and suprisingly, also computer programming entered his life extremely early, without introduction.

I clearly remember the day I decided Information Technology would have become my job, hobby and “lifestyle”. I was 8 and my father brought home a strange calculator by HP.
“It’s Cesco’s” he said “It’s broken and the customer care says it’s more expensive to fix it than buying a brand new one”.
“I’ll fix it” I said, looking at the meaningless characters on the screen.
I tenaciously unscrewed it dozens of times before understanding I obviously had not a chance to bring it back in working order. After a day of “fixing” I gave up, closed the case and put the batteries back on.
“Oh my, now it doesn’t even turn on”, I saldy thought when the display didn’t even lit.
It took me a few seconds to understand that I put the batteries upside down. When the batteries were back to the right position, I couldn’t believe my eyes. The calculator was working!

Later, I understood there was a bug in the calculator that in certain situations, caused a deadlock. Even removing the batteries wasn’t enough, but apparently, inverting the poles did reset a cache or something. Oh did I tell you the calculator used the inverted polish notation?
That’s how it all began.

Now Simone is a Java Specialist and a good conossieur of large scale enterprise software design and integration, though he considers C++ as an excellent tool through which he built his mental welness and attitude to programming.

I’ve always thought it’s not what you really know to make the difference but how you’ll handle the new information you’ll gain. The way your mind scientifically makes it all square. And believe me, if you don’t deeply love this job, you’re screwed.