{"id":1480,"date":"2011-05-27T12:24:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T12:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2011\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2011-05-27T12:25:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T12:25:55","slug":"goodbye-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2011\/2011\/05\/27\/goodbye-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"goodbye Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post here (I believe) it&#8217;s time for:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/roflmfao.de\/blogcontent\/beitrag22\/004_somethingelse.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAs many who have read my articles might already know, I liked it here so much, <a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2011\/2011\/05\/15\/things-working-out\/\">I even wanted to stay a bit longer<\/a> but <a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2011\/2011\/05\/18\/just-a-pipe-dream\/\">that&#8217;s simply not possible<\/a> at this point.<br \/>\nSo, finally I have to say goodbye to a city which, I have to admit, has more to offer than I expected.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/roflmfao.de\/blogcontent\/beitrag22\/001_queens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBesides the typical views you would expect, there was a big change noticeable, where lots of new buildings and businesses were flourishing&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/roflmfao.de\/blogcontent\/beitrag22\/003_city.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;side by side to old monumental buildings and a nice landscape around the city.<br \/>\nAs a visitor I was very impressed how visitor friendly ALL cities I&#8217;ve visited were. There were tourist information centres everywhere as well as free maps and brochures to every single aspect you could possibly be interested in.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/roflmfao.de\/blogcontent\/beitrag22\/002_map.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n In Belfast the main point of orientation, was the city hall just like the &#8222;Fernsehturm&#8220; in Berlin.<br \/>\nIn those two months I must say I got so used to live in Belfast, that it was just natural for me to call this place &#8222;home&#8220;. Especially when coming back from a trip (of which there were many) seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samson_and_Goliath_%28cranes%29\">Samson and Goliath<\/a> was very pleasant.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/roflmfao.de\/blogcontent\/beitrag22\/005_hw.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSpeaking of &#8222;homes&#8220;, I really have to say that living right at the harbour is really nice and that&#8217;s also something I will miss.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/roflmfao.de\/blogcontent\/beitrag22\/008_apartmment.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe sight of a big ship in your &#8222;front yard&#8220; isn&#8217;t the usual sight I have at breakfast in Berlin \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/roflmfao.de\/blogcontent\/beitrag22\/008_apartmment2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI am also happy to have managed to have done something out of some very &#8222;sketchy&#8220; specifications&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/roflmfao.de\/blogcontent\/beitrag22\/009_projectspecs.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;which also helped me to value a proper software engineering process.<\/p>\n<p>As I have hosted all pictures included in my articles on a private vhost, there are some interesting statistics for you:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/roflmfao.de\/blogcontent\/beitrag22\/001_stats.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThanks to everyone for reading my posts, especially my friends and family from Germany, Holland and the USA(greetings to Kat and the 3 Z. \ud83d\ude42 ) as well as my colleagues from work here in NI(judging by the stats, Jonas might be the only one in Dublin reading my posts, special thx 2 u \ud83d\ude00 ).<br \/>\nThe mailing lists for both cities handled over 100 email threads and are just 100KB when gziped but I hope they were useful for all of you.<\/p>\n<p>At this point I would also like to thank everybody who made this possible like my boss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de\/de\/mitarbeiter\/wolfgang-assmann\">Wolfgang Assmann<\/a> the people from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oszimt.de\">OSZIMT<\/a>. Thank you very much!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Next stop, the Twilight Zone!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0052520\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/roflmfao.de\/blogcontent\/beitrag22\/010_twilightzone.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post here (I believe) it&#8217;s time for:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,166,286],"tags":[638],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-belfast","category-privat","tag-this-is-the-end-my-friend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}