Why to go online?

Before publishing this site I obviously asked myself that question. To answer I need to tell you a story:

Back to middle 90ties

I remember when I first time discovered internet. It was in times when networking to me was a dial-up modem and BBS of my demoscene friends who were publishing stuff through that way.
I was in high school and my mother was really angry on each bill for telephony services.
Then one of my friends who was really cunning in networking and system administration told me that we could easily pretend computer sciences students at local university just to get access to computer lab rooms and try internet online not only some archives from cover CD of most popular magazines in those days.
So we did. We were good enough to convince by knowledge supervisor of the room that we're students (who just look young). It was in 1996 and Poland had no big infrastructure as for internet. I could hardly chat on IRC (with long delays) and being patient I could download some additional documentation and samples in coding areas I was interested in that time (demoscene and computer graphics of course).
After next and next visit at that lab my friend who just discovered Java told me that I should start thinking not only to get benefits from the internet but also give something back to it.
I asked him what does he mean. His answer was by example - hist java project of MUD game. He told me later that it can be anything, simple home page just to share something. Sounds familiar right - if we put it more mature it would sound just like Open Source paradigm somehow. :)
Anyway these days where sharing some content through internet has so many aspects and blogging for example is not only a high school girl way to express her emotions of growing up but many professional journalists make it good tool to communicate with their audience I've started thinking to check myself either.

So here we go. On this site you can learn a little bit about me (if you're interested of course). You can also read my technological blog about Microsoft development tools and technologies and within time I believe Articles and Projects parts will be filled with some PDFs and source code to provide you an opportunity of deeper understanding of the subjects I'd like to follow here.

Enjoy your stay at my website and any feedback is of course warmly welcomed!

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Daniel Biesiada - ISV Developer Evangelist @ Microsoft in Poland

"The more you give of yourself without expectation of return,
the more that will come to you from the most unexpected sources"

Change your thinking, change your life - Brian Tracy