Last month (21st of July 2011) I spoke at the Bermuda NET Event “Migrating WinForm applications to WPF/Silverlight”. This has been for me the first NET Event in Bermuda but for sure it will not be the last one. We are planning to have a new event this autumn where we will touch other topics like: ALM, Parallels and more. Thanks to Alessio Bellisomi, the web developer that works in my company, I am able to share with you some nice pictures of the event and three short movie of the event. Unfortunately, for this event, we were not...

Hi guys, I am glad to let you know that my Company is hiring two devs. The Company is growing and the IT team has to grow too! Actually I am looking for two Senior Developers that are interested in join our cool team here in Bermuda and may also consider to relocate in the future to the awesome San Francisco, in US. The first period will be in Bermuda than it will be up to you to decide to stay in Bermuda or move to SF. If you believe you are one of them that can...

Hi everybody, as you can see I am off again. Unfortunately this time was not for my fault, directly. I had a surgery last week here in Bermuda web site and now I have to stay on the bed for a while, so no PC and no nothing. I can just spend my time for studying for the new certifications I am going to prepare. I will be back soon and I will post a lot of SQL08 and Biztalk news, just wait and stay tuned!

This is an unusual post for me, today I will not talk about C#, or about Design Patterns or about SQL but about IT audit. In the past I have worked in a couple of banks in Switzerland and as a consultant. Now I'm working as an IT Manager in a finance company in Bermuda. One of the most non valued and non considered process in the IT departments are the procedures and technical manuals. But not for me. In my opinion one of the most important thing in a well maintained system is to keep live and up to...

I want to post something about what you're heard about Bermuda and a balance of wrong and true. Bermuda is a bad move for your career? Bermuda it used to be a halfway house on the road to professional oblivion for expat business types who were either tipsy or incompetent or both, but not any more. You can find very professional people in Accounting, IT and Financial area. Everything is expensive? Actually, also if we compare Bermuda to Europe after the Euro, Bermuda is merely expensive. A month rent for an house could be from 2000 to 20000 this is...

Last week I have completed my first group of lessons at the Iko course. The level are tree: Discovery, Intermediate, Independent. When you take the first lessons about the Discovery level, you don't need a kite because your teacher will give you everything. But when you start the intermediate level, you start with kiting; and in my opinion, because every kite is completely different, i have decided to buy my personal kite, board, and various instruments. My 5th line kite. This is a new entry in kite-boarding, actually you can find only kites with 4 lines,...

As may People of you know, hurricane Bertha is coming really close to the east cost of Bermuda Island. Today I have been to Sandy's beach to play kite-surf, because with the hurricane that is coming, the wind is perfect dangerous to play this crazy sport. In first I want to give you some information about Bertha. Bertha actually is a small Hurricane quoted 1, so the smallest in that category. Actually is really close to Bermuda and we can feel it by the wind that today is increased too much. Actually here the wind is around 30...

During one of my tour around the City of Hamilton, Me and my wife we have found a really small and strange alley. Inside you can find any sort of strange shop. I was really suggested about the paint made by a local painter here in Hamilton. Unfortunately I don't remember the name but I can show you some of them, because I was able to stole some shots with my camera. Take a look. Really nice, is some sort of Naïf painting but with a Bermudan touch....

Hi guys and all readers of my blog. I'm really with everyone of you but unfortunately in these days I was very busy and I didn't get one minute to update my weblog. I have receive a lot of requests about new shots from Bermuda so in this short post I will send you some updates. Hope you will enjoy!! Some shots from Hamilton City Front street The Parliament   One of the Churches Some shots from my House From the patio My new Girlfriend...

Premise: if you come from Europe you will find this post very strange. The reason is that in Europe you can take an International driving license and use it where you want. But not in Bermuda!! If you want to take a Bike (Motorbike) or a Car you have to get the local Driving license. In addition you have to take 4 steps to drive everything. The first one is for the 50cc bike, then 100cc, then Automatic car and finally manual car. How to do it? First you have to go to the TCD (Transport Control...

This week-end in Bermuda was a long one, because yesterday there was the Bermuda Day, so one more day to stay on the Beach. Another interesting thing is that I have started my Kite-Surf course!! So in first I want to share with you some interesting photos, not anything amazing but something to start with. First thing I can say to you, Man finally I have found some interesting guys where I can talk and stay on the week-end. Also most of them, incredible, are IT technician like me. There...

I guys finally I have some time to spent for you. During this days I was and also I'm too busy so as you can imagine I have not time to blog. Today I was to the Electricity Society for open my account. So if you are an emigrate you need: Passport Number and Passport copy Your landlord near you to sign the contract Your house contract In 15 minute the www.belco.bm company will sign you for a new contract. Obviously because you are...

Before starting to this fantastic Island, I have read a lot of forum, blogs and also personal experiences. Anything was really true. I have prepared a long detailed list in excel format, with all my things inside, also Clothes, Electrical tools, Documents and more ... I have also prepared my suitcases separating every one thing in a Plastic bag, I have divided the suitcases by things typologies (Clothes, Health ...) but when I was in the Customs ... First - don`t be aware about Customs, they are friendly, sunniest, and in special case they are very very...

Sunday I taken my Bike, a 80cc Scooter very fast, and I have taken a tour of the west cost of Bermuda Island. The Parishes in the west area, the most famous, are starting from Hamilton town, Paget, Worwik, SouthAmpton and the last one that actually I don`t remember. So because It was 6 o`clock A.M. beaches were completely empty and I had time to take some nice shots with my new camera that my former colleagues has gifted to me. Behind you can with them and enjoy fantastic Bermuda landscape. I remember you when I will...

Ok my apologies to all my readers but Friday evening I have taken the flight for Hamilton Bermuda, and since today I had not Internet connection in the Guest House, so for me was impossible to write an updated post here. Finally, I`m here. Today is my first Job day and everything sounds good. Yesterday I had some time to spent to take a look around this fantastic Island and the only one thing I can say you is, take a look at my first Bermudian Photo> What do you think about...

Some days ago, thanks to the Royal Gazette article, I have discovered Sell.bm. This is a fantastic site for your small commerce activity. I'm a Microsoft Senior Dev and also a Database Admin so I can talk with knowledge about techical arguments. So I want to make some point of interest about technical properties of Sell.bm web portal and the reason because for me, you have to try to use it! First one, very good search engine. You can make a really text search and obtain results of what you are searching. So you can make a...

As many of you know, I'm Italian and I'm relocated in Bermuda. So I want to talk about the experience of obtain a work permit (temporary, for only 3 months) in Bermuda and what's happen here in Italy! In Bermuda you MUST have a work before ask for a work permit and also, you CANNOT ask for it, but your employer must ask for you. In my opinion, this is a very correct procedure, because in this way, Bermuda Government is able to control the Immigration flow. Very good. What's happen in Italy? In Italy many people from Africa and also from the...

One thing that I want to describe It's the large difference there's from Italy to Bermuda regarding clothes Prices. Yep It' true. In Italy you can buy a new Shirt on Benetton for less than 20 USD, but I see that in Bermuda there is a Benetton shop that sell the same shirt at 200 USD!! Incredible. Also for Jeans, for example, a Benetton or Levis jeans, you can buy in Italy in many discount sale for less than 50 USD, but in Bermuda I have found some Levis's Jeans at 150 USD. So there are a lot of differences from Italy...

During my research to find some usefull Maps for Hamilton City in Bermuda Island, I have found this very well!! If you need a more details, you can go the official web site of YellowPages and view the complete map of Hamilton with all the current activities highlighted with an icon and also a good legend. In the next post I will show you some usefull markets present in Hamilton. After my arrival there, I will show different prices from one to another. So stay tuned!

As I promise to you, my reader, today I will explain my experience in find a job, or better, I will tell you what opportunity this fantastic Job Agency can give to you. For some essential NDA, I will not talk about salary, companies and contracts, It's not my business!I Some months ago ... I have found an interesting job agency, the name is The James Partnership. They are in charge to find you a Job in the Bermuda Island, exclusively Business and Financial jobs, but also something in the Information Technology. Normally they search some interesting profiles like: Accounting ...