Hi guys,
it’s me again, our fifth week will be end and it was a really nice one, of course the weather had a good timing to be a beautyfull sunny week. At the last three days of the working week, it was very relaxed and have a nice introducing by Kevin in the programming languages ASP.NET & C# for developing webpages, because I want to use this languages for developing project in my community, too. At the beginning of this week, it was something happend in my project at my work, of course there was a some upgrading problemes on Microsoft Dynamics Server, but I have solved this problemes with manually upgrade steps and now I working for the last steps to finish this project. Well, the week was really funny and interesting. At last one, I have got new contacts at Volunteer Now which I like to hold above this nice work placement at Belfast. By the way, I think you have enjoyed this week, too.
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My parents @ Dublin
Today was a nice day. In the morning I went to the Burlington Hotel to meet my parents. I was really happy to see them after that long time. But my attention was somewhere else at that moment as I saw that awesome vehicle.
I asked my father if he rent that limo but he sadly said no. Anyway we walked across the St. Stephen’s Green Park then through the Grafton Street and after across the O’Connel Bridge to the Spire. I decided to make a Dublin tour with my parents so we bought 3 tickets at the Hop On – Hop Off bus (Red Line). First time we hopped off was at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. We payed 5.50 Euro per person to get in. The Price is ok in my opinion. Sadly a lot of my pictures are worst nothing because of that stupid light inside of the cathedral. Our next stop was the Guinness Storehouse. I was already in there but I noticed that there are many more people at the weekend. In the afternoon we bought some T-Shirt for me at Mark & Spencers.
Tomorrow will be a nice day too.
Sunny Work
As the other AFIB guys already wrote the weather here in Belfast is very good. This is untypical because we have about 20 °C and it feels like over 25 °C. The sun burns so hot that I have a sunburn – no joke. I’m very often outside to install the outdoor WLAN. But now I bought a sunblocker and hope that the red skin will change into suntanned skin 🙂 I never thought that would be so nice here in the rainy Belfast.
At work Jannik and myself tested the Intelesens Aingeal device which can monitor the vital signs. So I’m not afraid to test the device by myself. At first the website to access the data from the monitoring device doesn’t worked and we must waited until Friday. But then we established a connection between the WLAN access point and the Aingeal device. This worked not realy fine because the connection was interrupted at many times. But we had monitored some of my vital signs. I’m not a doctor but you can see a difference between the idle ECG and the burden. At this point I’ve done some press-ups.
Active Directory Upgrade
This week I was introduced to another project at Translink: Plans are to upgrade the Active Directory infrastructure from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2. The project is realized in cooperation with the IT service provider Northgate.
One principal reason for running this project is that another project depends on this Active Directory upgrade: the migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010.
A project assistant from Northgate came to the office to talk with my colleagues and me about the hardware (physical and virtual) and software requirements as well as the necessary network (re)structuring.
Sunny Dublin
On Monday I meet Mrs. Neumann and Mr. Bavar in the Knighgtsbridge Bar at the Airlington Hotel. We talked a bit about the City and my job in Dublin and of cause about the weather which is not typical Irish. The days were full of sunshine and a bit too warm in my opinion. I didn’t know that you can put the weather from Germany into your pockets. That’s awesome. The cool thing I noticed is that there are less thunderstorms in Ireland than in Germany. Anyway, at Wednesday Mrs. Neumann and Mr. Bavar wanted to take a look in my apartment. Mrs. Neumann was kind of suprised how modern my apartment is. Wooden floor, huge living room and a modern kitchen that’s what I have here. Mr. Bavar also made a refrigerator check to see what we eat all day. Good that he didn’t saw the freezer. 😉
Good that we have a freezer so I can by some icecream for the next few days. I often visit Met Érieann to look how the weather will be in the next days. More sunshine, yeah! Time to go to a beach again.
Visit from Berlin
Hi guys,
on Tuesday came visitors from Berlin to Belfast. Who? Mr. Bavar (my supervisor) and Mrs. Neumann (supervisor from the MPIB).
They have visited the companies and accommodations from the AFIB members.
They were at 11 o’clock in my company, where we have talked about the work at Anaeko. Later came my responsible person from Anaeko to us and we spoke all together .
On the late afternoon, the complete AFIB went in the “Filthy MacNasty’s”-Pub, a small Pub in the Dublin Road, there we drunk, of course only coke. =D
It was nice to speak once again with people from Germany.
At 7:30 p.m. our visitors walked to the train station to drive back to Dublin.
Best regards from Belfast
Benjamin
Uplifting vocals
Every Wednesday is a great musician named Mark Graham playing at Filthy MacNasty’s. Rene, Tim and I were at his last to gigs and listened to him. He is a singer/songwriter based in Lisburn and he is enchanting crowds with his heart-stopping, uplifting, easy going style of music. At night-time his job is being a musician playing at pubs and weddings, but his day job is writing songs. His Music is inspired by McCartney, Lennon and Hendrix. It is a rally good feeling to listen to him and to see how enthusiastic he is about music. But the most impressive thing about him as an musician is that he don’t need a band behind him, just him and his guitar, that is all what he need to sound as great as he do. I really like people like him, because they make our lives for a few hours easier and a bit stress less.
So see you on Wednesday at Filthy MacNasty’s 10.00 pm, have a pint and enjoy.
Three days… Two films… One Project… But a lot of sunshine!!!
Hey guys,
it’s always funny to how the weather can be changed in irland. Now, it’s a lot of sunshine like the first few days of summer in Germany. We have watched to additional films in our favourite cinema: „The dictator“ and „Safe“. „The dictator“ was very funny and I would recommend this one, but I didn’t like to recommend the other one, because I my opinion, the scenes was switched to fast sometimes and there are to much story scenes with very few action. I think that’s very unusual for an actor like Jason Statham. Well, I enjoy the first sunshine days of this week and my projects at Volunteer Now works very fine, but I had the first setback on tuesday, because I wanted to use MS Dynamics SDK, but the current version of this SDK wasn’t compatible with the MS Dynamics 4.0 CRM Server. Therefore, I was frustrated that Microsoft doesn’t keep his own standards and the migration was successed from the 4.0 version to the 2011 (5.0) version, but the import of the old organisation site was failed, because there was to many changes. So, I had to create all changes from the previous one, but I have finished this one and now, I can begin to develop some webresources with the new SDK and a new Framework. Well, it’s very interest, but it’s a little bit more difficult to work on project which used a more closed application than an opensource project. I think, it will be a nice challenge and I can get more experience by using Microsoft SDK’s. So, I look hopefully in the following days of this week and I wish everyone a nice week, too.
A half day on the Titanic
Hi guys,
no, I was not really on the Titanic, but close to it, because we (Martin and I) was on Saturday in the world famous Titanic-Museum. It is one of the landmarks of Belfast.
We started on Saturday noon to drive with a taxi to the Titanic-Museum. Arrived there we have picked up our tickets (on the website reserved) at a ticket office. After 30min waiting, we could start in the “Titanic World”. 🙂
The start began with the former living in Belfast and how the shipping industry arose. After them we could drive with an elevator up on the titanic scaffold (20m high).
After the crossing of the scaffolding, we could with a small, I would say space shuttle, fly around the working mens, which have worked on the titanic. We could they see on screens, camouflaged as windows.
On the end of the museum, we could marvel the titanic wreck under our foots, it was amazing.
Best regards from Belfast
Benjamin
Sunny Days
This week starts with some really nice days. The sun is shining all day long since Monday and it really feels good. Yesterday Mr. Bavar and Mrs. Neumann visited us at our placements and our appartement. Afterwards we had some nice hours talking about our experiences here in Belfast and our impressions about the city, the people and the atmosphere at work. Mrs. Neumann really attracted interest in the dress code and the casual friday.
More than half of the 8 weeks are over now and to be honest, I’m really looking foward to get back home. I really like Belfast and also it’s people but you know, there’s no place like home.