Alessandro Gallo : Achievements

Got the MVP Award for 2010

Garbin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:10:00 GMT

Four in a row. Thanks to all of you, your feedback is truly important. Thanks Microsoft!

Got the MVP Award for 2009

Garbin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:16:00 GMT

This is my third time. Thanks to all of you who appreciated my articles, forum posts, thoughts, and the code I shared. Your feedback is truly important.

Thanks Microsoft!

Got a BS in Electronic Engineering

Garbin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:47:00 GMT

I've managed to complete my studies in Electronic Engineering, which I abandoned a few years ago to dive into informatics and programming.

I'm happy because I hate unfinished work. Thanks mom and dad for all the support ;)

And now, back into programming.

Gift from Microsoft

Garbin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:31:00 GMT

Today I've received a little package from Microsoft. Inside it, there was a nice letter:

[...] I wish to thank you for the incredibly valuable feedback that you have provided. The importance of having the community and early adopter feedback as we built Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 cannot be understated. You made the product better working with us closely through the product development phase by giving us valuable feedback. [...]

Inside the package, I've also found a gift that I am supposed to share with deserving people in the community. Will do!

Thanks Microsoft!

MVP Award 2008

Garbin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:14:00 GMT

This is a great start. I got the Microsoft MVP award for 2008!

Thanks to my MVP Lead Alessandro Teglia and to Microsoft for this great community recognition program.

If everything goes as expected, I will attend the MVP Summit this year.

Thanks!

I'm an ASPInsider!

Garbin — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:19:00 GMT

A few days ago I've been invited to join ASPInsiders. I can't wait to share thoughts and ideas with so many great ASP.NET developers.

Thanks guys!

Got the MVP award for 2007!

Garbin — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:09:00 GMT

This is the first time for me... I can't believe I found the email this evening... thanks Microsoft!

Dear Alessandro Gallo,
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2007 Microsoft® MVP Award!

Many, many thanks to all (especially to my MVP Lead, Alessandro Teglia) who appreciated the words and code I've written during the past year; I've never thought I could get a MVP award and I'm really honored.

This is one more reason for me to improve the quality of my contributions to the communities and posting more frequently on this blog.

This year I will continue focusing on web development with ASP.NET, and especially on the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions (also in conjunction with WPF/E). For example, one of my goals is porting the code for the GeotagIt! mashup (winner of the Grand Prize at the Mash-It-Up with ASP.NET AJAX contest) to the upcoming RTM version of ASP.NET AJAX.

Stay tuned!

GeotagIt! won the MS AJAX Mash-it-up contest Grand Prize

Garbin — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:39:00 GMT

Ok, it has been a long wait but finally Microsoft announced the winners of the MS AJAX Mash-it-up contest, and my GeotagIt! mashup is the Grand Prize winner!

Well I'm pretty happy about that, and now I'm the owner of an XBox... wohoo :)

I would like to thank Sonu Kapoor for hosting my mashup on his DotNetSlackers site and being always a great help to me. By the way, I've worked together with Sonu to embed some other nice MS AJAX functionality in DotNetSlackers and now the site is featured in the ASP.NET AJAX showcase!