Well, hello!

They always tell you that in order to have a successful blog you must have an About Me page... so here it is! now this blog is officialy successful!

So I am Shay Friedman. I work as a .NET technologies expert in Sela, where I consult and instruct .NET courses. My expertise is dynamic languages but I also do other stuff like ASP.NET, office add-ins and more.

During the last months I've been writing a book - IronRuby Unleashed for Sams Publishing. The book is already available for pre-ordering on InformIT and Amazon. A few chapters will are already published as part of Safari's Rought Cuts program.

I also participate as a speaker in events and user groups from time to time. You can download and watch the presentations on the presentations page.

To see my work expirience in details, visit my LinkedIn profile.

So to summarize this part, I'm a .NET geek and a writer who loves to speak about technology.

What else?

I live in Herzeliyya, Israel. I study Computer Science and Psychology (yes, you read fine) in Bar Ilan University, I have already finished 3 years but I have about 3 more - I take it slow. Too slow some would say. I love twitter, I think it's genious. I have never had a Facebook account. I do NOT have an IPhone, a blackberry, Nokia N97 or any other smartphone. I loveeeee traveling abroad. I play basketball every week. I watch Lost, House and American Idol. I hear alternative rock most of the time and hardcore/metal occasionaly. I love movies, but most of them just aren't worth the time.

Last thing they tell you is to put your picture in this page, so here is one from my last trip to Ireland:

Ways to contact me: the contact page, twitter or LinkedIn.

Well, that's me!
Shay.