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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 🙂

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…)

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):

I love holidays

Posted by on April 2, 2010 2 comments

Alright… I’m starting to become a serious case of a workaholic because after more than six weeks, I still think that MY. JOB. ROCKS. and I’m like totally devoting myself to it by means of having almost no private life anymore, doing waaaay to few sports etc. But still, it’s the small things about holidays that I love: Staying up until 4 re-watching Scrubs season 1 :mrgreen:, getting up around 10:30, finally go running for an hour or so in the sunshine without having had breakfast (yeah you heard right, my stupid belly: the tummy’s gotta go!) and doing so enjoying Munich’s habit of looking incredibly beautiful when it’s getting spring, finally. On top of the “mountain” in the olympic park, I took a few seconds to breathe (had to, otherwise I’d might have passed out 😉 ) and looked around: AWE-to-the-SOME! One could see to roughly a trillion kilometers distance! Sheesh, I love holidays for giving me moments like that.

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 😀

asciicasts.com

Posted by on March 2, 2010 3 comments

I just stumbled upon asciicasts.com, a cool site that has the goal of transporting the great railscasts.com episodes into plain text so it’s easier to run a full-text search on them. Another benefit is that it can provide translations to other languages, too! I contacted the webmaster a few days ago and will continue translating episodes into german and also set up a repository for coordinating the translation work at github. So if you’re into Ruby on Rails and you’d like to contribute to the community by simply translating a few episodes here and there, feel free to contact me on github or contact the webmaster of asciicasts.com!

These kinds of community-created additions to the rare high-quality tutorials or screencasts in the Ruby on Rails universe are vital! Rails 3 is going to be released somewhere in the near future and with it come lots of changes that many people might not know about.

Ooops, it’s 8 a.m. already… I’d better get up and hurry to my proper job and stop doing so much open-source crap :mrgreen:

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 😀

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 😎

Back to Munich, back to life, back to normal – well, kind of…

Posted by on February 11, 2010 5 comments

Alright, it’s been a funny time lately 🙂 Came back from London eleven days ago. Finally got to see my family again. Installed the new graphics adapter into my Windows PC (lovely, now it’s even more silent than before). Spent some days relaxing and literally doing nothing. Ate good food. Did a little bit of tidying up my room and my life. Did not do any sports 🙁 Found out that a huge bouldering gym will open this summer in Munich :mrgreen: Prepared for the next big step in my life: My very first “official” job as graduate engineer, the starting point of my carreer! First day’s on Monday, so keep your fingers crossed!

I’m really looking forward to this one – the job interview was really cool and the people and the whole atmosphere left me with a very good first impression. Can’t wait to find out what kind of projects I’ll be working on soon! Hope I’m really fit and good enough for the job…