Category Archives: Work

Oh what a night!

Posted by on October 12, 2010 3 comments

roughly 7 p.m. Returning to my hotel after the first day at the WebTech. Trying to get some sleep, but it just won’t work. I’ll never be able to fall asleep before midnight, I guess…

11:30 p.m. Getting up again, taking a shower, preparing myself for the night.

00:30 a.m. Taxi ride from Mainz to Darmstadt, where the headquarters of the “Deutsche Telekom” are. The taxi driver is a little weird and stinky, but friendly in general.

01:00 – 06:00 a.m. Assisting with the launch of the software platform my company has been working on for the past few months.

06:00 – 06:30 a.m. Taxi ride back to Mainz – Friendly, but weird and stinky driver…

07:00 a.m. Taking a shower and trying to fall asleep as fast as possible.

08:00 a.m. Getting up again after not having slept at all.

08:27 a.m. Rushing down to grab something to eat before the bus back to the conference comes.

08:38 a.m. Leaving the breakfast lounge / Running to the bus station.

…

09.00 a.m. Already at the first talk of the day πŸ™‚

WebTech 2010

Posted by on October 11, 2010 5 comments

I’m attending the WebTech 2010 in Mainz – it’s a hybrid conference together with the international PHP conference taking place in the nice Rheingoldhalle right next to the Rhein river. Oh my… So many geeks in one place! And almost no women here! (and those few that are here… well, you know…)

Anyways, I’m looking forward to another two and a half days of interesting talks and new insights to technology and the software industry in general.

PS: I did not forget about the pics of my appartment, it’s just that I couldn’t find the time by now… (and, to be honest, not so much progress has been made since my last post on that topic…)

New appartment

Posted by on July 21, 2010 7 comments

This is just a small life sign because I don’t have Internet access at my appartment, because I’m too lazy to set up an Internet connection through my cell phone and because I barely have the time to write at all… πŸ˜‰

The big move took place on Monday and I’m already “living” at my new place. Well, kind of. I managed to put the pieces of my bed together a few minutes ago so I don’t need to sleep on the floor again – at last. So far, the new appartment could rather be described as alpha version of living: no furniture at all because all the stuff is just lying around on boxes and disassembled pieces (just like my bed used to until earlier this evening)…

But aside from working my ass of at work, I spend as much time as possible setting up everything so you can soon come to visit and envy Christian and me πŸ˜€

Pics will be here, too (eventually)!

Electronic job application

Posted by on July 15, 2010 1 comment

This is friggin’ funny: http://www.asofterworld.com/oq-display.php?id=22

TGIF reloaded (at least a little bit)

Posted by on June 26, 2010 No comments

Yesterday, some colleagues from work and me went to the Hirschgarten and enjoyed way too much food along with the soccer game Chile – Spain. There we also found out that a lighter can be 85% child resistant (look closely):

After the game was over (and it started getting cold, already) we moved to the city and finally ended up in that Australian Bar – the one which always gives me a hard time remembering its name – and found out that you have to be ‘croc-wise’ in croc country (sorry for the crappy pic but that’s the best I managed to take with the iPhone cam):

Metaprogramming in Ruby

Posted by on May 6, 2010 No comments

I just stumbled upon this one and I think it’s a superb example of how metaprogramming works: http://gregosuri.com/powerful-twitter-api-wrapper-in-less-than-50. If you understand it, you can show off in the comment section here :mrgreen:

Zebrahead

Posted by on April 15, 2010 1 comment

Just came home from the Zebrahead concert here in Munich and it was totally rad :mrgreen: Wanted to let you folks know that I’m still alive and kicking. I promise to get better about having my blog more up-to-date! Will upload the pictures from Shiho’s and Freddy’s visit soon, promised! But for know I gotta get some sleep for I gotta get up in roughly six hours… πŸ˜€

PS: Have I mentioned that my job rocks? Well, it does! 😎

Busy, busy, busy!

Posted by on March 21, 2010 4 comments

And once again I just have to point out that time flies when you’re really busy! In my case, it seems to be flying a secret military super-jet :mrgreen: The past week’s been filled with work, work-related travel, more work, reading technical literature (for work), eating, sleeping and … well, that’s about it. My back is back to normal, at last! It still tends to hurt a little sometimes but it seems to be alright altogether.

Alright! And because I’ve been too lazy to upload pics for a while, here are some πŸ˜€

T.G.i.F.

Posted by on February 19, 2010 2 comments

Yaay! My first week at the new company’s now officially over and I’ve already collected 5:30 hours of overtime πŸ˜€

And the winner is…

Posted by on February 15, 2010 3 comments

… me, for being hired by a cool company full of friendly people!
… QAware, for hiring me 😎