If you want to hire me, please read my CV ;-) (not really updated…)

Who am I?
Talking about yourself is really difficult, I don’t know where to begin, so I try with “100 things about me” method:

[work in progress 54/100]

  1. My name is Luca
  2. My surname is Zappa
  3. I was born in Erba, Italy, on November 25th, 1975 at 6:30 p.m.
  4. I’m a Sagittarius
  5. I don’t believe in horoscopes
  6. I live in Italy
  7. “Luke Hoe” is the english translation of my italian name :-)
  8. I studied computer engineering at Politecnico di Milano
  9. I am a software engineer
  10. I love internet
  11. I love basketball
  12. My favorite Italian basketball team is Cantù
  13. My favorite NBA team is Utah Jazz
  14. My favorite NCAA basketball team is Utah Utes
  15. My favorite basketball player is Michael Jordan
  16. I love dogs
  17. I play (bad) basketball, I am a guard
  18. My favorite soft drink is coke
  19. My favorite alcoholic drink is Mojito
  20. My car is a Volkswagen Polo
  21. Sydney is the best city in the world
  22. I like travel books
  23. My preferred travel writer is Bill Bryson
  24. I love Lonely Planet travel guidebooks
  25. I’ve been on the internet since 1994
  26. I wrote my first email in September 1994 (to myself)
  27. My first browser was Netscape Navigator
  28. Now I’m using Mozilla Firefox and sometimes Internet Explorer Safari
  29. My first email address was lzappa@varano.ing.unico.it
  30. My greatest basketball moment is during the 1992 Korac Cup Final in Cantù when Pace Mannion scored four 3-points shots in a row
  31. My first flight was on July 1993, when I was 17. Four flights in a day (two Iberia and two Delta flights): Milan – Madrid – New York – Dallas – Las Vegas
  32. The cheapest flight I have ever bought is from Milan Bergamo to London Luton with Ryanair (two-way for only 2 €)
  33. My first computer was Commodore 64
  34. I wrote my first program in Basic
  35. I am an IT consultant
  36. I work in Milan
  37. My favorite programming language is Java
  38. My favorite Java editor is Eclipse
  39. Google is the best search engine
  40. My favorite tennis player is Andre Agassi
  41. I’m not related to Frank Zappa
  42. My first motorcycle was Honda Camino (terrible)
  43. I think that Grand Canyon (Arizona), Bryce Canyon (Utah) and Uluru (Australia) are fucking amazing
  44. The countries I have visited are Italy, Switzerland, French, Croatia, Spain, United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Holland, USA, Germany, Egypt, Greece, Hong Kong, Australia, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Russia
  45. My nicknames are Luke, Frank, Onippaz, Tons, Sindaco, Zap2.0
  46. My favorite food is polenta with cheese
  47. I think open source was, is and will be the wealth of the information technology
  48. I think I’ll never finish this list
  49. My first blog was powered by Blogger, now I’m using Wordpress
  50. My digital camera is a Nikon Coolpix 4300
  51. My new digital camera is a Casio EXILIM EX-Z1000
  52. My photo taken in Kakadu National Park (Australia) is been published in a book: “The Legend of the Dragon”
  53. I switched to a Mac in January 2008 and I fell in love with it
  54. My mobile phone is an Apple iPhone

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