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Looking thru the mirror

After a loaf of Java, bite of JavaScript and little bit of PHP in my most recent career, last week I headed to Poznan .Net Group meeting to see what are this guys doing up there. Assuming you're a Java guy, you know who is who in Java world, you know what's JEE, you wait for Java7, can tell why NetBeans sucks. You meet a Java friend and together whine about Maven, Eclipse, EJB, then have a beer and next day all again. And now there are those .Net folks. What are they up to? One guy there was from company of approx. 200 Java engineers. Only his (10 person?) team does .Net there. Oh my, are this two groups talking with each other during a lunch? That's what I was wondering on my way there. And the meeting was fun. At first look, just as I had passed a magic mirror with applied "s/Java/.Net/". About 10 people in the room (quite like on our Java group), tense air, two topics: S#arp Architecture and PowerPivot review. I especially liked S#arp because it's kind of f