On Wednesday morning Andi and Danny arrived in Amsterdam. Same day on the evening, after their final thesis exams in our homeschool, Geri and Mitch arrived freshly grauduated from school. And on friday finally claudia and katja, our two powerchicks arrived at the battlefield in adam.

Because the weather was great the whole week, the spanish guys from my company and me decided to go to vondelpark for picnic. Vondelpark was crowded like hell on this saturday and so i invited my friends to vondelpark to join us. After about 1 hour the guys started really enjoying relaxing life in amsterdam as you can see on the pictures

At this point i want to say you guys thank you for visiting me. It was a great time with you in amsterdam. Especially sitting more than 8 hours in front of grasshoppers, enjoying watching movies ;-).

The last months the company worked hard by developing Nulaz, a “location based mobile social network application” which shows where your friends are in your neighbourhood, gives you informations about local interests, sights, clubs, pubs, cinemas, restaurants, etc. You can share locations and events with your friends, share messages or add webservices like flickr, youtube, hyves, twitter, etc. to your account. Just go to nulaz.com or my (profile) -> register and start social sharing around you. I know that most of us is already bored of “yet another social application” but i really like this application - if you have a dataconnection ;-)!!
See my boss in action talking about the price, of course in dutch but try to understand it ;-).

If you want to have a cool offline application without any need of dataconnection check out this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C20vDMP0760&feature=related, i can’t stop loughing :-D.

I am here in amsterdam now for almoost three weeks and i have to say its really cool. Amsterdam is such a great city. The people are so fiendly, the students on the boat, the working colleagues, local people on the streets and even the bus- and tramdrivers are really convienient people.
Also the weather right now is incredible. Usually at this time it is supposed to rain all the days. But actually it doesn’t and thats why everyone here in amsterdam is happy and in good mood. Here you can see the next days compared to austria:

In compare to my erasmus semester in finland i need to say that here is not that much party and activity. Most of the people on the boat are interns as well and so you can imagine that everyone needs to get up quite earlyd uring the week. In my case its 07:30 am to get up in the morning, if i want to take a shower ;). Then it is about 20 minutes by bike to my office.
By the way, bike! Last week i bought the most important “thing” a “dutch” person needs - a bike. You are kind of “noOne” here in amsterdam without a bike ;-). I was really lucky with my new aquisition. I got a very good conditioned mountain-bike from a german bike retailer. See it in action in front of my office and my workingplace @ the office:

Last weekend we had our first party at the boat. It was a barbequeue party on the deck around the pool. Unfortunatly the pool is already closed but “whooo caaares!!!”. After that we went to a small club in westerpark close to the boat.

• HTML/XHTML (HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.9, XHTML mobile profile document types)
• CSS (CSS 2.1 and partial CSS3)
• Full DOM
• JavaScript (ECMAScript 3, JavaScript 1.4)
• XMLHttpRequest (Ajax!)
• Ancillary technologies (video and audio media, PDF, and so on)
• Up to 8 “tabs”

So this is what the mobile safari brings to you. But consider! A finger is not a mouse! So there are several mouse actions which have no equivalents to a touch event on the iphone’s surface:

• No right - click
• No text selection
• No cut, copy, and paste
• No hover events
• No drag ‘n drop
• No File Up and Downloads
• Screensize 320×480px
• still problems with google maps API integrated in a website
• No Flash, Java-Applets
• CSS: hover style, position fixed - not allowed
• … can be continued

As cool, smoothy and handy the iphone is, this constrictions you will have and most of them probably won’t change. Alltough it is a new way of developing web applications and you don’t have to be browser-independent!!! No Internet Explorer-, Opera- and Firefox-Compatibility Checks anymore!!! :-). And of course the CSS3 compatibility opens you a wide range of new features of designing your layout especially the -webkit extension for safari.

to be continued…

On monday i picked up my keys at DUWO, the leading student housing company of amsterdam. I got a cabin on the quite famous Studenthousingboat Rochdale One. On this renewed russian Passengership are living students from all parts of the world. It’s easy to get in contact with new people. The cabin i got is pretty small and was on the first day completly dirty and disgusting - wöah. Next day, when i came back from my first working day, it was clean like a babyass ;-).

Also really cool is the internet speed on the boat:

Today was my first day at spaesuvius mobile software company. The company has got 2 superiours one fulltime worker from spain and the rest 10 to 15 people, i stopped counting today, are from spain, france, china and austria (me ;-)) and are interns like me. I really feel like an erasmus student. For lunch everyday one of the interns has to prepare food for all.

I don’t know yet what i am going to do tommorow, but i know for sure that i will check out amsterdams nightlife know.

Best wishes and looking forward to comments…

Sorry about my absence, but i had a lot to do in the last months. A lot of working, party and travelling prevented me from blogging. Let me give you a small revision of the last months.

After the last weeks of very stressful school we tripped around in czech republic. Brno and Prague were the targets we visited. Those cities are pretty cheap and nice but the people there are a little bit unfriendly. Anyway I made a lot of pictures which you can see here:

Pictures from Prague

I also had to leave munchies and my flat in Eisenstadt. Unfortunately we had to give up our penthouse flat in the students dorm in eisenstadt called “bährenhöhle”.

Enjoing july with working, beachvolleyball, and lot of party, schasi daniel and me have planned an england-scottland-Ireland trip. We guys met us in Dover and rented a car. First tries with driving on the left showed up no real problems except almost touching people on the sidewalk on the left with our driving mirror ;-).

Driving along the southcoast with standing on the cliff edge of the awesome white Cliffs at Beachy Head, Old Havencity Hastings and driving through Brighton and then to a parking place close to stonehenge was our first day.

The next Day we visited the fu..in’ boring stonehenge, succeeded with getting the first shower in Bath and celebratet a great party in the not really cheap oxford.

After visiting the SAE Institute in Oxford in the morning schasi, danny me and my hangover went on to Manchester. Great city but unfortunately it was, i think sunday or monday so there was not a great nightlife.

By the Way! In manchester we found our third Burton Store! We felt like chicky girls when we saw all the Burton Stores. Always we bought a lot of CHEAP stuff. Yess, indeed - its cheap in UK to buy trousers, t-shirts, shirts, jackets and stuff like that. But the problem was that we had no spare space in our backpacks - but we did it anyway :-P.

The next day we decided to miss Liverpool and go directly to the Lake District National Park in the North of England. I really want to go there once more. This landscape, the mountains the weird sheeps and the great view, you really have to see this. Just watch a view pictures:

After passing the Hadrian’s Wall which was the border between scottland and england in the past, we entered the country scottland. At the beginning we saw a rainbow like i never saw before. We were lucky when we arrived in the city centre from Edingbourgh. First reason for that was that exactly from this date on the fringe festival took place the whole month. Second, we got an accomodation! Bed and Breakfast for two days. We decided two days because we were very fast with driving through england. So we took a “driving day off”. The Fringe Festival shows up a lot of street artist and musicans. They played in the streets and in the bars as well. We had a lot of fun in this very nice city.

The Highlands were waiting for us. We had no plan yet when we accessed the motorway. We decided to go the western way to the north of scottland. And it was the right desicion!. Beautyfull endless highlands with purple flowers a lot of castles and tight roads. Like you propably expect when you go to scottland.

The way took over two days through the malt country where scottish whiskey, glenfiddich, aberlour and many others come from. We visited the Glenfiddich Distillery (no more comments to that :-)) and went to Iverness, the top of sucking Loch Ness. By the way a short comment to Loch Ness: It sucks! There is just nothing exept a boring non-proven tourist story about a crappy watersnake. Just the Castle of Urquhart was quite nice and very famous as well as we could see because of the mass of tourists.

Danny was the navigator of this day and he found in our huge-mega-4pound-perfect-detailed-Streetmap a place where waterfalls supposed to be placed. So we followed his hints and arrived with our car in the middle of the wood. After a short hike, one dog and one snake we found the waterfalls.
It was late so we decided to put up our tent and searched for some bulk wood to make a typical campfire. One of the best moments on the trip: Seeing the Coverbox of an original scottish Single Malt Whisky burn in our fire!! Incredible!! Probably my best picture of this trip.

So next Day we made an attack to the highland games on the isle of skye. Driving through high mountains and typical scottish rain we arrived one of the most famous islands of scottland. In Porth, the capital of this the isle of skye, the highland games took place. If you want to see real typical scottish behaivour and style, go there. We spent our night on the camping side there and went to a party in the evening. On this island you can find a lot of beautyful cliffs on the most western points of scottland.

Next Day we had to give back our first car to the car rental. So Glasgow was the next stop. We booked a hostel on the way and checked in. After a great night full of party and disgusting english/scottish fastfood we brang back our car and took the next train to stranrear which brought us to the ferry to Belfast.
In Belfast we took the nightbus to dublin. Arrived in Dublin somewhere round’ 2am we really needed an accomodation. The result of our search for a hostel was the really most disgusting accomodation i ever had. I don’t want to describe that - wöah.

Time for the next car. The rental company was really bad. First we searched for the car rental station in the south of dublin where we should normally got the car. But those suckers have their car pick-up just at the airport, which is located in the north. And Dublin is biiig, very biig.

But anyway the next goal, one of my main goals, was to check out beautiful ireland. First and short Stop was Cork, quite a nice a small city. Small in compare to dublin. Alltough Cork is the second biggest city in Ireland. It has a great nightlife, i really can recommend it.

To see the real landscape of ireland we checcked out the most reccomended bay - Dingle Bay. Dingle Bay and its cliffs as well as Killarny National Parks was especially for me the most exciting part of the trip. I never saw such a beautyfull landscape and nature before. Maybe Finland in autumn can beat it, but just maybe. Unfortunately it was raining like hell all the time, but you really have to expect that weather.

Finally we drove back to dublin for a 3 day stay and then back to austria directly to the frequency festival as final activity of this awesome summertrip with those two crazy guys.

All the Pictures you can see on my flickr page under: http://flickr.com/photos/grobald/sets/

My next Blog will be posted from Amsterdam where i will go on saturday for my internship till january 18th.

See you !

cd /htdocs/project/cake/console/

Then start the bake script with:

./cake bake

you’ll probably get the following msg’s:

Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in ...
Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in ...
Warning: mysql_get_server_info(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in...
Warning: mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in ...

To resolve this problem go to your /etc folder and copy your php.ini.default to php.ini

sudo cp /etc/php.ini.default php.ini

Then open your new php.ini file with the vi editor

sudo vi /etc/

and change the following line:

mysql.default_socket = 

to

mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock

And now please close you MAMP Application and check if all http processes are closed (use Activities Application)

And know enjoy baking!!

Nach der Verkostung war dann 80’s Party in der Orangerie Eisenstadt angesagt. nach erfolgreicher Präsentation der stierischen Partylaune gings dann ab ins James Dean zum gemütlichen Ausklang.

Am Tag darauf feierte dann der Rest des Schützenfestes(Schasi, Grobi, Olli, Claude, Geri) Lu’s Kindergeburtsatg (8 Jahre) in Pottendorf. Nach Eislutschen und Rapid anfeuern gings dann ab ins “potten”DORF” zu den Helden der Arbeit.

Im großen und ganzen ein tolles Wochenende ganz im Sinne von “Fließen legen”.