After a month or two of pondering and thinking and planning and thinking and some more thinking, today I finally told the management at work that I’ll be leaving in a month from today. Actually, I won’t be extending my contract with them which will end on June 24th.

Why? I don’t like the road the leadership of the company has taken (if this can be called a road at all…), the amount of energy the whole team is wasting on some small and silly things, the fact that extra effort is not recognised, thanked or paid and that there’s currently 8 of us in a roughly 25 m^2 room.

I know, there are bad moments everywhere when one just have to suck it up and deal with it for the whole team/company, but I’ve been doing that for quite some time and I had enough of that.

The only thing that makes me sad about this decision is that I’ll be leaving @milosija on his own here, a great mentor and friend from whom I’ve learnt a lot.

On the other hand, as of June 25th I’ll be starting my own company, which should be an exciting new experience. Still need to wrap my head around that one, so more on that in some future post…

Until then,
happy hackin’!

As I said 2 weeks earlier, I decided to move my stuff over to linode. Well, I did it. Kinda.

First step was to change the nameservers of the domain. I thought it’s gonna take a while, so I took my time with moving the files and the database, but (at least on my end) the dns changes were alive and kickin’ under an hour.

My original idea was to run everything on nginx, but that soon turned out to be a bad idea cause there was no way I could setup properly the rewriting – if PHP was working right, CSS was broken. If CSS was working right, PHP was broken. At one point I broke everything. Hooray for me. Then I just took down nginx and all that php-fastcgi stuff and installed apache. Everything is lovely once again, the world is all shiny and pink and full of rainbows and unicorns. But fear not, I will not let nginx beat me in this mad game of rewrites! Just have to do that somewhere else, not on a live server.

Now to setup the emails and my job here is done. Oh, and the sidebar is a tad broken. Sorry bout that.

Carry on now, nothing left to see here.

Just a little heads up to all of you who stumble upon this place: I’ll be moving servers and stuff in the coming month to linode and most likely there’ll be some downtimes and fuckups so just thought to let you all know (this sounds like there’s someone reading this blog at all, heh).

Hope I won’t forget to make backups.

In 2009 some good stuff happened and some bad stuff happened. All in all, a crappy year. Hopefully, this year will be a lot better…

I graduated on June 26th, the topic was a Python desktop application that communicates with a web service; both sending and receiving data is possible. Started working on July 1st at Online Solutions as a PHP dev and started to “officially” give back to the Open Source community by joining the ZF Bug Hunt Days – so far few minor patches submitted and applied. Wrote a review on a ZF book and another one on jQuery and PHP is in the drafts.

I ain’t making plans for this year, cause I have failed miserably to realize my most important plan for 2009; I’ll just improvise throughout the year.

Dear 2009 – up yours. 2010 – bring it on.

Happy new year!

Here I am, Friday night, trying to remember what happened with me in 2008. I spent a couple of days just trying to figure out a nice title for this post. In the end I shouted out for help on Twitter; thanks Martin :). So here it goes, moments in 2008 that are worth a note — I’ll try to keep it as short as possible :)

The most important: I passed all my exams at the College, only the graduate work left to do and I’ll get my BSC degree. Hurray!

Served military service which is obligatory in my country; 9 months of volontary work at the local Red Cross office.

Worked for 5 months in a local development company — learned a lot of new things and got to know some really good guys and gals; thanks all ;)

All visuals done by Livia Radvanski

In, I think, August bought this domain, to finally create my online playground. My girlfriend did a real good job on creating the visual look and feel of my site and blog — all that you see here are results of her work. Thanks Livi :)

This place was up and runnin’ in early September, the first blog post was written on 4th September. Since then there are 23 posts, 99 comments, 1100+ spams, around 60 feed subscribers and 3000 monthly page views.

Started using Twitter somewhere in September heavily; so heavily that I needed to cool out from it for a while, the bloody thing was going out of control.

Bought a shiny new 22″ LG monitor; probably not a big news to most of you, but it is for me, took me a couple of months to spare teh money for it.

Started learning Python in December.

Hmm… Can’t think of nothing else… Told you it’s gonna be short. Moments that are not mentioned here are those great moments that I spent with me lady during weekends or interesting moments that I spent somewhere deep in the code during weekdays.

Plans for 2009

Not many at the moment. To move in with Livia (we planned moving in for 2008, but that got postponed :() To learn some new stuff. To graduate. To work. To start and finish 2 non-profit projects (sites, actually) that I’m planning for a while. To contribute to an open source project(s). Go to Greece for 2 weeks during the summer. Go to the AC/DC concert in Belgrade.

So yes, I had a great year, and hopefully gonna have an even better one :)

Happy Holidays everyone, merry Chritsmas and have a blast for New Year’s Eve! I’ll be back next year :)

Cheers!