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Love Letter from a horse to another

July15

My Dear,

At risk to sound tacky & to buggy you, will you please allow me to rein you to a dressage.

I know I am not a Rafalca, or a Budweiser Clydesdale, and never appeared on a box of wheaties, but I promise you I am stable, and I’ll help you with that long face if you’d draft me to be your stud.

I hope you’re not another neigh-sayer who doesn’t believe in love at first sight, but your pics really stirrup my emotions, & I knew right out of the gate I had to bite the billet and try to whinny your heart. Maybe I was just barn a romantic.

Allow me to bale you out, and to carriage you on a trail ride before we’re pasture prime & end up in a bottle of elmer’s glue.

I hope you’re not dun with love & pony up and get in the race.

I not here to horse around, my mane mare reason to contact you is love.

While I wait for your response, I mustang in here, hopefully not furlong, so Giddy-up, & get back to me as soon as you can, .

I understand if you’re not ready to saddle down, in which case I wish life was farrier.

Your truly

Palomino.

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Diego Scataglini started his computer carrier in 1996 as a multimedia developer and graphic artist. After spending a couple of year consulting in South Florida was finally hired as web designer by New River technologies in Fort Lauderdale. It was here that Diego discovered a passion for web development and an inclination for programming.

During his 2 years at New River Technologies Diego became an expert in cross-browser DHTML and an abdicate for web standards and code separation. He was the lead designer for DeltaVacations.com and contributed to a Continental Vacation redesign.As a result of constantly pushing the boundaries of what could be done on a web site, Diego was promoted multiple times up to the role of Creative Director and Web Manager. He then lead a team of 3 back-end programmers and 6 web designers in successful migrations to new systems and technologies always within a 3 week turn-around. During this time he was also involved in the e-commerce aspect of the business.

Diego then left New River Technologies for a more challenging position as Senior Web Developer at Petplace.com, at the time a content provider for AOL, Netscape and Compuserve. The temptation to work on this kind of large scale sites was too great to resist. Here he discovered his next passion: web application development. During the next 2 years Diego developed or helped developing a multitude of web applications including: content management systems, internal web tools, distributed web applications, community based web applications. Here he got involved into MsSql database design and optimization as well. Here he also developed a javascript library that used IE capabilities to make async calls to the web server with an iframe fall back, a precursor to current Ajax libraries.

After a short break Diego Scataglini went back to consulting. In the next 3 years He had a series of discoveries including lightweight dynamic languages, AJAX and low-cost open source solutions. In this period he had the opportunity to gain experience with Oracle solutions, Mysql performance optimization, Unix and Linux systems.

Diego Scataglini worked as Senior Software Engineer at TheGlobe and develops both internal and external web-based solutions. Here Diego helped lowering the company technical overhead by promoting open source software and developing using open standards and agile methodologies. He continued to develop large scale websites using cutting-edge technologies interconnecting VOIP, web-browsers, desktop and mobile application, Ruby on Rails websites and asterisk.

In September of 2006 Diego contributed 12 recipes to Rails Cookbook by Rob Orsini, the book hit the bookstores in January of 2007 and I got a very nice acknowledgment for his contribution.

In September of 2007 Diego had the opportunity to act as technical reviewer for Obie Fernandez’s book “The Rails Way“.

Diego consulted for Norwegian Cruise Line from late 2007 till February of 2009. He got this time his taste of life in the Enterprise Java world. Here he helped standardize the ncl.com site on 1 javascript library. He implemented solutions based on Ext, Flex, Ec2 and Rails and helped optimize the front end performance of the site.

In his rare spare time Diego enjoys spending time with his family, playing guitar and writing articles on open source projects or contributing to them. He is also the author of 3 rails plugins.

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