A Developer's Life

For the first time I had the honor to be part of a SugarCRM’s Code Sprint (this time in SugarCRM Munich HQ)… It was an amazing experience, that I definitely want to live again.

For those wondering what a SugarCRM Code Sprint is, I’m going to explain it with the following (personal) interpretation:

Take a Community Manager, a bunch of Sugar’s Engineers and a reasonable number of developers from almost everywhere in Europe. Put them all in a room, feed them with good (not exactly healthy) food (from Mars and Sneakers to meat and pizza) and beverages (from water to beer, through RedBull), make them feel like home and let them have fun at night. All the rest is automatic: new friendships and good code.

 Don’t know if I contributed with some actually “great” piece of code; I just know I did my best, having lot of real and sane fun (just like when I was young, and software was fun, not work !).

Code Sprint is not a race, you don’t need to be the fastest or the best or the first. You just need to cooperate with others, giving what you can to help building a better SugarCRM. The guys I had the pleasure to meet (and to work with) in those days are all brilliant developers and amazing code contributors (actually they are also younger than me, but that’s another story), perfectly integrated in SugarCRM’s world. Going over those geeks stuff, I firmly believe that this CodeSprint has been a great starting point for new friendships.

[Personal Note]

In the last four days I feel I dramatically improved my (poor) English, especially my (very limited) listening capabilities. I think that the biggest problem I had was the “tuning” of my ears, to understand so many different ways to same the same things (with speakers from Belarus, Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, Russia, Spain, UK, USA): unfortunately I not always succeeded in that, sometimes looking a bit dumb. But I’m keep on improving…

Excited. Thrilled. I guess my (English) vocabulary is not rich enough to define the amazing experience I’m going to live: the SugarCRM’s Code Sprint, that will be held in Munich during the first week of October.

I don’t have yet detailed knowledge of what will happen during those days. I just know that I’ll be working on SugarCRM’s source code with a selected group of developers coming from USA and Europe, both from SugarCRM and Partners.

During these four days I will meet again (almost) all the people I first met in San Francisco (during SugarCon 2011) and I’ll also meet “live” the people that, today, I know only “virtually” (meaning by eMail or Skype). In both cases it will be a great pleasure !

Now, I have to say two big “Thank You”. The first one goes straight to SugarCRM’s guys, for the event’s invitation they sent me.

The second one (it’s actually a very big “Thank You”) goes to my Bosses at Poker S.p.A., for financing my transfer (even if, in Italy, it’s a bad time for economy in general) letting me take part on this amazing meeting.

I just hope to be a good contributor, to save Poker’s honor (and also mine…).

I will post about SugarCRM’s Code Sprint, so…. Stay Tuned !!!!