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And there we have - broken development site on staging server. Ops... 

Starting my fourth week of my Erasmus internship in Pure Sign.

Office from inside I

Office from outside

Office from inside II

Learning new stuff every day, which is what I was counting on. Despite that I`m still far away from what one would call Drupal developer. 

My current assignments - adding new features to existing project and migrating data over to new project management tool. So far I have refreshed my skills core Drupal modules and also learned to use some new ones - Search API, QuickTabs, Taxonomy and more. Search API involved messing around with Apache Solr, which was royal pain in the rear end to set up. Fortunately every IT2010 student at Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences is a professional at installing new stuff thanks to Java Programming course (WIN). Good times, eh... One thing for sure - setting up all of that on Linux is definitely much easier than fighting with Windows ports and Environment variables.

Miss home? That`s ok. Fiew blocks down there is a supermarket where You can get some Polish things. Mokoroni po flotski, here I come!

 As I have mentioned in one of my last tweets: "One problem with Linux is that You want to tinker it all the time. Why? Because You can." Usually I start tinkering around because there are some performance issues. And once again they come down to Unity desktop environment. With the last (13.04) Ubuntu release performance has become much better, but still, under heavy load it struggles with maintaining stable performance. My system specs are fairly average for modern laptop (3rd gen. Intel i5, 4GB of RAM and regular HDD), but it ain`t exactly slow either. Might be that with dedicated graphics it takes some of the load off the CPU and performs better. For now I`m using Gnome Fallback mode. And even with Cairo dock running without OpenGL it outperforms Unity.

So that`s my monthly technical confession. There will be more of them despite the fact that it will annoy Līga, who by the way is arriving tomorrow! Yaaay, no more random forever alone evenings! We managed to find a new apartment to move in on Friday/Saturday. Thank god terminal for that. Was already starting to worry.

A view years ago when I was in Belgium, one of my friends took picture of every single beer type that he tried. I will try to follow his example.

Achievment unlocked: "Drunk Vedett" (Inside joke)

My second favorite

My third favorite

Beers here are generally different than back home. They are stronger and in smaller volumes. My favorite so far is the one that I drunk at the local festival – Patershol (probably spelled that wrong anyway). Can`t remember the name, but got small beer cup in memory of good evening. 

Patershol

Some place that will be torn down in a few weeks. But for now... a pub! :)

Beach next to the pub.

I suck at table football

A few months ago I went to local pub with my mates and had a chance to play table football with them. That was my first time playing and I thought that my fiends know how to play. Boy was I wrong... My collages invited me to play with them table football at the office. Without going into details - I was quite useless.

Anyway... things are going well. Here, take a look at some pictures.

Arrival

My third day in the city of Gent. Getting Getting here was easy and went smooth enough. After getting out of the plane I took a bus to the Brussels to find myself in huge central station and no idea of where to get any sort of tickets or anything. A quick question and the nearest information board and I was hurrying along to the right platform to catch the train that was 10 minutes late anyway. Quick train swap in Gent in order to get as close as possible to my destination, because 25kg bag doesn`t sound like much unless You have to pull it trough the city for 40 minutes. I found my apartment quickly enough and was greeted by the owner of the room. After getting a tour around the house and little chat I was left alone for three days when others come back from their business.

Yesterday I went to check out the city itself and get the stuff I wasn`t able to bring with me. Gent is a really nice place and I really like the overall feel I get when moving around. I like the lack of high buildings, and unlike the last time I was in Belgium - I ain`t the only damn 20ish year old around. Although that was to be expected because this is rather large city with it`s own university. Anyway I`m quite happy with my experiences so far. On next Monday my internship starts so I`m looking forward to that.