Tuna Toksoz's weblog

It’s that time of the year again. I am usually not very interested in new year celebration, and as usual I’ll be at home with my family, which I believe more amazing than going out.

If I am to summarize this year, it’s been the most productive year for me, I joined Rhino Tools, NHibernate, Castle Project, and Fluent NHibernate(even though latter two have 0 commits by me so far) and I learnt _many_ ideas and techniques, and more importantly I met with great people.

Even though I don’t care much about new year, I think it is a great opportunity to thank people who helped me on many different issues including programming. In no particular order, I would like to thank

1. Ayende Rahien was the first guy I came across while I was trying to find the best programming techniques and he was the one introducing the AltDotNet concept to me. He is also the founder of Rhino Tools, which is my first true OSS experience . He directly(in mailing lists) and indirectly (via his posts on his blog) helped many of us.
2. Fabio Maulo is the current leader of NHibernate project. He asked me to join NHibernate Core after our work on Linq provider. He helped me in every commit I made, answered all my questions. Not only did I learn good programming techniques but also I believe he is a great example of a good project leader.
3. Sidar Ok was the first Turkish speaking person I met on Alt.Net. We shared our experience on various topics and we even have some plans on introducing Alt.Net concept to Turkish .net Community(more on that later).
4. Krzysztof Kozmic Unfortunately I don’t know how I met with this guy, but I’m glad I met. We were to start an OSS project, but due to time limitations this had never happened.
5. Hamilton Verissimo is one of my idols. He didn’t directly help me, but I learnt a lot from his works
6. Finally, biggest thank goes to my family and girlfriend, for their support for everything of my life.

If I forgot anybody, please forgive me, those are the ones I can remember now.

I wish you, dear reader, a great new year!