pumsti goes NYC

Protected: More fun at work

Nov 5th

Apple’s Magic Mouse

Nov 2nd

As many of you may already know, Apple released a new mouse called “Magic Mouse” which replaces the “Mighty Mouse”. Although I was happy with the Mighty Mouse I had to get one of this new ones last weekend and I’m really happy so far. It comes in a fancy box (see below). The whole mouse basically acts like a touchpad and you can use gestures for scrolling up and down, left and right etc. The gestures work really great and I’m happy that they have removed this little roller ball that tended to get dirty and stop working once in a while. Overall the Magic Mouse is slicker and lighter and comfy to use. The only thing I’m missing a little bit are the additional buttons that you could use to bring up the dashboard or show an overview of your windows but I’m hoping that they will add gestures to the mouse for that with a future firmware upgrade.

NYC vs London

Nov 2nd

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This is the weather forecast for this week. One of the reasons I moved to NY and not London when I had the option.

This weekend in pictures

Nov 1st

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This weekend I wanted to try out my new camera again and I have to say that I am really happy with it so far. I was especially surprised by it’s low light performance. All the pictures are taken without using a tripod which I still have in Austria but will bring with me on my next trip. These are some of Times Square, The Empire State Building, the ING NYC Marathon and Brooklyn Bridge at night.

Sunny Autumn Sunday in Central Park

Oct 25th

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Ater a rainy Saturday, NYC enjoyed a very sunny Sunday which I used for a walk through Central Park (joined by my little shadow) to try out my new camera. Here is the outcome.

Protected: From Presales to QA Engineer

Oct 25th

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Shadows, Work and other stuff

Oct 15th

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Sorry for being absent on this blog for a while. Life has been busy but I didn’t really feel like writing about it. Last week another colleague from our Austrian office moved over to join the NY team for at least a while. It feels a little bit like a shadow is following me. When he started his first job he joined a company I worked for and I taught him some development and database stuff. Years later he filled in my position at my current company in the Austrian office when I moved to NY. And now he followed me to NY and funny enough he is gonna live in the same area at least for a while I used to live in when I first came to NY. I think so far he learned a couple of things: Life in NY is faster, choices of decent food are endless, London can not be compared to NYC and communication between different departments that are spread across different continents always appears to be different once you join the other side. But I’m sure he will be able to continue that list. Anyways, welcome to NY, my little shadow!

Although I still officially work for the sales department, I sometimes get pulled into services work again to support those poor guys that are trying to implement our software at the client’s site. Currently I got asked to help at a client in Stamford to support performance tuning which should rather be called on-site QA. Performance-wise today has been quite successful but the sad part is that most of the performance improvements were due to bug fixes on our out-of-the-box packages which made us all wonder how this could pass our internal QA and even more how we should explain that to the client. I guess we will focus on the positive part which is that we are in a good shape from a performance perspective right now although we still have some days of more performance tests ahead of us.

That’s pretty much it for now. Only thing left to mention might be that I have booked my XMas-trip to Austria and really look forward to it. So everyone in the country of the farmers and cows beware: pumsti’s on his way again, haha