Autor: Erik Herzog

Hallo, mein Name ist Erik und ich bin Auzubildender der Charité in Berlin. In meiner Ausbildung zum Fachinformatiker in Systemintegration ist ein Auslandspraktikum nach Irland vorgesehen, welche ich dieses Jahr absolviere. Viel Spaß beim Lesen.

I am back…

Hi Guy’s ,

this is my last entry and I am back in my homeland.So I talk german.

Also gestern kamen wir 10:30 Uhr in Deutschland an.

Teilweise bin ich froh wieder in der Heimat zu sein, aber ich werde auch die geniale Zeit in Irland vermissen.

Erstmal will ich mich bei meiner Firma Wealthtrack Software Ldt. bedanken. Es war eine sehr gute Firma, die sehr viel Gedult mit mir hatte.

Dublin ist wirklich eine sehr schöne Stadt. Die Leute sind sehr freundlich, besser gelaunt als die Deutschen und sehr locker drauf.
Die Stadt selber ist einfach großartig und da ich mitten im Citycenter gewohnt habe, hatte ich es nie wirklich weit, außer zur Arbeit.

Ich habe sehr viel erlebt in Irland und habe aber dementsprechend auch sehr viel Geld in Irland ausgegeben. Ich rate aber jedem Azubi nicht so sehr auf das Geld zu achten und mehr Spaß zu haben 😉

Im ganzen kann ich mich also nicht beschweren. Natürlich gab es auch Sachen die nicht sehr positiv waren, aber die haben wir auch überlebt.

So also an alle die nach Irland möchten: Freut euch drauf und genießt es, es ist einfach der Hammer 😀

Das wars euer Erik

 

End of a nice internship

Hi Guy’s

The last week is over. My last two workdays were very nice. I finished my project and at Tuesday after lunch I demonstrated it to my colleagues. They were very happy about the result. After my last day I got a little card with wishes to me from my colleagues. I was happy about that because it was a nice gesture and the praise to my project was the best present 😀 .

Yesterday was a quiet day. We relaxed at home and walked a little bit in Dublin. At 6 p.m. Stefan, Moppi and I went to Nick, Lars, Felix, Mike and Marius. In their garden we played ping-pong and did a barbeque. It was a very nice evening.
Today we eat our breakfast in the O’Sheas pub. It was delicious and after the breakfast we drank an Irish coffee ^^

At 1 p.m. our colleagues from Belfast arrived. They left their bags at out place. After a little talk we showed them the city and relaxed in the Saint Steven’s Green Park. All in all it was a very nice last day.

Now we cook our last dinner in Dublin. It was a very nice day.

Tomorrow or Saturday you can read my result about this internship.

See you in Germany 😉

Party and CL Final

HI Guy’s

 

Friday was a nice day. At work it was OK. The work was normal and I got the news, that I have holidays at Wednesday and Thursday.

So my last day is Tuesday. Now I have a little bit of stress, because I want to finish my project.

 

At home I eat something and after the dinner we met with our colleagues in a little nice pub. After some drinks we went to a club. It was a very nice night and at 5a.m. I was at home.

 

Saturday was very quiet. I bought me new shoes and food for the last week. The weather was very nice. I did nothing but I relaxing the afternoon.

In the evening I met my colleagues in the city center. We searched for a pub to watch the Champions League Final. After a long search we found a nice one.

The game was nice. In this pub, there were other German guys, which were so crazy because one girl (Bayern Munich fan) was shouting the whole time.

See you later

Middle of a normal week

Hi guy’s

 

How are you? I hope well.

 

Here in Dublin all is fine, but I’m likewise lucky and unlucky that the internship is soon come to an end.

I wish I would have more free time in the last days, to see something and relax.

 

Yesterday was a good hard workday, I finished the basic part of my project. Now I thought that I could save it on the database, but Richard gave me another task.

First part of the day, I fixed some issues and changed a part in my program swiftly. I changed the part, where I split up the Json string in own attributes. Now I don’t use a splitter anymore but a Json deserilizer. This Deserilizer splits up the Json string into attributes and deletes all unnecessary chars. So I save 10 lines of code, because now I use only 2 lines of code. 😉

After lunch Richard gave me a new task. I am to built a DataTable, which downloads my statistic from SendGrid in real-time. Also, I have a new hard challenge :D!

In the evening I eat with my colleagues in a Japanese restaurant. It is called Yamamori Noodles. It was delicious and my boss paid the dinner :D. It was a really nice evening. We laughed a lot and talked much.

As I went home I talked with an Irish guy, because he wished me a good night. He was very friendly but his accent was very hard to understand J so I misunderstood some sentences.

 

Today I read a lot about my next step and after that I planned something. It was a very hard day and I did not program that much.

After the workday Stefan and I went shopping for some food. At home I cooked and cleaned a little bit. Now I am relaxing with beer.

 

See you later

 

Start in week 7

Hi guys,

 

Monday was a good start for the week. At work I fixed all my program issues swiftly. After lunch I planned to built a new method, which gets statistics from my newsletter. So I wrote my HTTP request and a helper method, which reads the ID from the selected newsletter.

I thought all worked fine, but after sending the request I got a HTTP response of 500. It told me that the server from „SendGrid“ was unreachable. My first speculation was, that the error was on my side, but after a test from the SendGrid web API itself I got the same HTTP response code (500).
So I figured that the error is on the server-side and I was a little bit more happy.

At home I brought my pictures into order and relaxed the evening.

 

Tuesday wasn’t so good at work. As I began, I got an email from the “SendGrid” support team. They told me that my API call is not supported. I was very confused because yesterday a support guy told me something different. So I can’t built my project. I wrote another email to the SendGrid support team. After that I thought about what to do the rest day. I decided to improve the code I put up so far. I built in some labels, which show you whether the process is successful or done.

At home I cooked salmon with rice and spinach and relaxed the evening.

See you later

An awesome weekend

Yesterday was the tour to Giants Causeway. First I overslept, but thanks to Stefan I did not miss the tour. The whole day was rainy, but we saw a very nice place. First we visited the rope bridge. Even though it rained very hard we visited the bridge with much patience. After a long drive we arrived at the Giants Causeway. The rain was worst at this place. We visited the Giants Causeway too. It was very slippery there. But the moment at the ocean was really overwhelming.

Giants Causeway
Giants Causeway

Today Stefan and I did a shopping tour. After this “tour” we enjoyed the sun in the Saint Stephens Green Park. Now we are going to watch Breaking Bad and relax.

 

See you later guys

Almost done

Hi guy’s,

Thursday and Friday I was able to proceed with my program quite far. My task was to program a Graphic User Interface, which processes HTTP requests and Database queries. Also, I built a lot of buttons and text fields. In the upper picture you can see my program. For a little explanation, it sends a HTTP request to a webpage (SendGrid). You get information about your email history and the status of your sent mails. These two days were very hard concerning programming, because I had many issues. But at Friday everything worked fine. Richard controlled it and he was very satisfied. So this two days were very nice :D. In the next week I’ll publish my project and connect it with the database.

a part of my project
a part of my project

See you

A quiet week… :D ( no pun intended)

Hi guy’s

 

how are you?

 

Everything is fine here in Dublin. The weather is not like a typical May in Germany, but it’s ok.
Monday was a normal work day. I fixed some program issues in my web API and I showed Richard my progress.
He and I were happy that the web API is running. After some emails he gave me a new task. I should change the UTC time, which was set as a Unix timestamp, into the regular time.
At home I didn’t do much. I was shopping at Lidl and cooked. Also I cleaned the bathroom.

 

Yesterday I changed the timestamp and showed Richard the result. Also we talked about the next step. I thought that I can now save the data into the database, but he would like me to do other things. So I now have a new task. I should put things into order and so on. I can say, that I programmed here in Dublin the whole time.

At home I cooked and relaxed the evening.

 

See you later

A very nice weekend

Hi guys,

 

this weekend was very amazing. We had do two tours. On Saturday we visited the Cliff of Moher and on Sunday we did the Celtic Tour.

On Saturday the night was very short. At 5 a.m. we woke up and went to the meeting point, where the tour started. The weather wasn’t good at the beginning, because it was rainy. Our first stop was a very little castle. It was nice. After 3 hours and many stops we arrived at the cliffs.

Stefan and I explored the left side of the cliffs first. So we lost the other guys :D. The view was very stunning. I would want to jump into the water to surf.

When we were at the cliffs the weather was very nice. It was sunny and windy. After a short walk, we searched for the other guys at the right side of the cliffs. On the way to them, Stefan and I did an involuntarily stop, because the wind was so strong that Stefan had to hold on a fence and I perched on a stair. So luckily we were not blown away, or down the cliffs.

very windy
very windy

After the cliffs we had lunch in a very little restaurant. The prices were high and the portion of food was very small. After we finished lunch went home, with a few stops at the coast. I like the coast and so I made many photos.

At home we relaxed and went to bed earlier as usual.

 

At Sunday the weather was very bad, because it rained a lot. We visited many typical Irish and Celtic places. At first we visited the Hill of Tara. Although it rained a lot for the most time, we stayed quite long.

Our tour guide was quite impressed. His name was Mark and he was very funny. I understood him very well, because he spoke slow and in a well English.
At the tour we got a lot of information about the Irish and Celtic history and the Irish culture. It was really a beautiful and nice day.

At home I eat a pizza and went to bed early, because I was very exhausted.

 

 

You see it was a stuffed but very nice weekend. Also see you later guys

I am the better chef

How it’s goin’ Guys?

 

In the last two days not much happened. I think we work too much and so we have no enough time to do what we would like to do.

Every evening I’m more exhausted as in Germany. The result of this is, that we don’t go to any pub or that we do other things.

Yesterday was a very sad day, because all Germans had a holiday / mens day.  All my friends sent me funny pictures from the bicycle tour and I had to work.
After work we had a healthy dinner and we relaxed and had a Guinness.

Unlikes other I think my food at least looks tasty….. or? (Well actually I believe it tastes better as well)

JUMMY
JUMMY

At work I have many problems with my project. Last week the project changed very often.

Any time I try something I get different problems which are very hard to fix.

Today I had an accomplishment. My project is almost done. I ‘ll not go to a disco or something, because tomorrow we have to start in the early morning. Our bus tour begins at 6:50 a.m.

Also I am relaxing now and I do nothing.

 

See you later