Just a couple of days to go…

Hi folks, it’s me again.

 

On Friday we were going out and it was again a lot of fun. On Saturday we watched the Champions League Final and after that, some colleagues and I tried to party again but we were not fit enough after we partied hard on Friday.

 

The rest of the weekend was pretty quiet and thankfully I got two free days (Wednesday and Thursday) to prepare for my departure to Germany.

 

At work, I am preparing all the Documents I need and finishing all the projects I was working on.

 

It was a nice and interesting time here in Dublin but I will be glad to be back in Germany.

 

If there won’t happen any interesting things in the last couple of days, I won’t write any further Blog post. So you won’t see anything new from me.

 

Regards,

Markus

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

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 quiet week…

Hi folks, it’s me again.

 

It’s been awhile since my last post but again there is nothing really new to tell.

 

During the weekend I was a little bit ill so I wasn’t going out or doing some sightseeing.

 

At work we are trying to finish our code and create the documentary for it and create some flow charts for the further testing which will start during this week (at least I hope so).

 

As Alex mentioned, the beds are killing us.
Even after my massage I am already feeling some tensions in my back and neck again.

 

But we are almost finished here and I look forward to see my own bed in Germany.

 

That’s all for today.

 

See you soon.

Markus

Again nothing really new…

Hi folks, it’s me again.

 

There was again nothing really new since my last post.

The Weekend was kind of quiet and I focused myself on learning some more PHP and rest.

 

Again I wonder about the weather. In one second there is the sun and it’s warm and beautiful. In the next second it is raining like it hadn’t rained for the last 3 months and a couple of seconds later it is like if nothing happened and the sun shines again.

 

At work we are trying to bring our web project to an end. We implemented JavaScript, JQuery and Ajax and are now looking for some PHP tools to debug and test everything.

While we were doing this, we also made some more tests with the machine and advanced in building our power circuits for the devices.

 

I’ll make my next post before the weekend. Until then I hope that you are enjoying what you’ve read so far.

 

See you soon.

Markus

Friendlyness, politeness and appreciated work

Yesterday I had a bad day.

I didn’t get any further with my work, although I watched and read many about these topics.
I also called on Richard so that we could solve this problem. He told me with a smile:
“Don’t worry. No person can learn all of these in so short time. “

I told him my problem and what I know to solve it.
After the call about my second project, he asked me what I would like to do the remaining time.

I like the Irish mentality and calmness. All people are very friendly ^^.

As I am open for everything, he suggested I work on the reports again.
Today I started to research for the actual project.
I created a new WCF service and added some “DataMembers” and “DataContracts”.

After Lunch I programmed further with the aid of Deepu and Lince.

Today I wasn’t as demotivated as yesterday.
Before I finished my work today, I saved the backup from our database. It’s a routine at work.
Every day after work, Richard thanks me, eventhough I am no big help.
This is a nice feeling, because in germany my work is not appreciated as much.

Actually the weather isn’t the best right now, but I hope that we will have sunshine at the weekend.
I will propably meet with someone I got to know, (I hope me English is good enough :D), and visit the coast with my colleagues.

See you later

Nothing really new…

Hi folks, it’s me again.

Nothing really new happened since the last post.

At work, I was able to advance in my PHP logic and finally was able to implement the correct SQL syntax so that we can now correctly insert, select, update or delete something in our database.

Yesterday we found out that we can see the match between Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid.

A TV Channel here in Dublin was broadcasting the match and we were gathering around our small TV and were enjoying the match.

After the match, we were all euphoric and now we want to see a German final.

 

Well, I think that’s all for today.

At the weekend we plan to go out again but this time we want to go in pub or in a club.

 

See you soon.

Markus

A normaly midweek

Hi guy’s

how’s it goin‘? Nothing! The last two days I have totaly screwed. The work is hard, but interessting.
Today I  created my first web service. It is a little bit complicated, therefore very cool. I don’t know, what I could report.

The trip to our work ist very long and the most time I sleep in the bus. We got used to the friendlyness of the busdriver already.
Even though I havn’t much time after the work, I often go jogging in the park. The park is small, but so beautiful.
At the right side is a little river and in the center of the park are many sportfields (football, hockey, rugby and so on) . A lot of people make sport in the park. I think this is good.
At the weekend we’ll visit the habour and go a little bit shopping.

See you later guys.