I don’t know if you have a driving license. Even if not, you will surely understand this sublime analogy presented by me. Sometimes, you drive a car and know traffic regulations. You can drive this manner successfully for the whole life. However, if you aim to be a professional driver, an old stager, it takes whole days in a car and sooner or later you get dirty with grease by working with an engine. This is how I see the .NET developer’s life. The vast majority may ride „very well”, knowing the syntax, design patterns, tricks of trade. They are professionals. Yet, there is a small group of geeks, nerds, old stagers, that are looking for something more. They want to understand CLR internals, know how does everything work, how to dig in into memory and how to use raw tools such as WinDbg. I consider this is plainly speaking a mind-absorbing occupation and can draws everybody’s attention, even for a while. The popularity of devWorkshops delivered in Poland  by me and Sebastian Solnica confirms this presumption.Continue reading