So… Today I started my new job. Actually I started a great job where I will be working in an awesome team on even more awesome projects… Here’s a little story about why I left the other awesome team and job behind…

All in all I worked for more than eleven and a half years for my old company. It all started with an apprenticeship, some more school, studying, and finally having a fulltime job as a software developer there. For the last two years I was working on some MacOS projects and mainly on an SDK which was basically only used internally by our application team. As time went by, that job was more or less always the same: coding features. Pretty cool features on technical side. On the other side, it was probably a bit too technical for my interests, mobile computing. But anyhow, I loved that job. One big plus in my company was the outstanding teamwork. That was really incredibly good! I think it will be very rare to find something like that again, if possible at all. And that was also the main reason why I needed some time to turn all that down and start something new. I have great friends there and we had a whole lot of fun, not only at work but also on evenings and weekends. Project managers were partying with developers and testers and other stakeholders. Everybody did everything for each other to solve problems and deliver our products on time, even if that meant to work the whole night through… And that’s not all. Working together for such a long time really means something. And that makes it really hard to put all this aside and start a whole new life.
I needed to change some things, trying to get more happy after all. Some things did not go the way I wanted them to be… And damn… I’m too young to be depressed all the time and not beeing satisfied with my life. That’s why I decided to move to another city, for a whole new job and a whole new life, changing my way of working, the way I live and changing some bad habits into good. Still, there are all my friends in my hometown, and I’m confident that these friends will remain my best friends and that we all will have a lot of fun during our holidays and on weekends.

So, there’s the end.

But where’s an end, there’s always a start!

Today I started the new job. It was kickoff day for a completely new team within a bigger organisation. I learned to know the people in my team. And speaking with the first impression of one day, I can tell that these people really seem to be nice and we will build up a great team there!
This job will be a huge challenge for me. This will be a big change for me and I will definetely learn a lot (!) new stuff. But I also will have to change some things in how I am and how I work in order to be successful. Therefore, it’s not A huge challenge, it’s a bunch of huge challenges for me! But it will also be a lot of fun! And that’s worth it. Having fun at work, on cool projects, together with cool people, in a great team is somehting that really makes you grow, learn and perform in a way that you did not know you would be able to.

Cutting things short… I am really looking forward to the upcoming weeks and months. I feel really excited about all this and I’m curious what the future will have in mind for us. Still, there is one eye crying, leaving family and awesome friends and times behind, having to end a long lived lovely story of my life. But there’s a new chapter being opened now, let’s see what’s in there…!

Closing with the words of wise Mr. Barney Stinson: “Challenge accepted!”

kokodev.de has been officially rebooted!

Not that anyone would have noticed, but I did not write anything here for quite some time. So, I deleted most of my old posts and only left the very first entry which is almost three years old now! The reason I left it in here is that this post matches 100% to what I would write as my first post today:

I am about to start a new Job, this time doing Cocoa for real! Furthermore, I did some development for iOS in my spare time during the last years or months. So I guess at least the part of being a complete Cocoa newbie is not valid anymore
Reading that post tells me that I refused to do what I really wanted to do. I posted some thoughts and samples, which I enjoyed very much. But due to lack of time and lame excuses, that project went to sleep for more than two years. But, since I am about to take a big step forward in my life and hopefully also in my career as a software developer, I really want to try that blogging thing once more. The motivation to do it did not change during the last three years… maybe the will to pull this thing off is now big enough to actually keep writing, learning, sharing and having fun with it!

Maybe someone besides me will actually read this blog this time

Hello out there!

I wondered how to start this whole new blog thing and well… surprise… let’s talk about my intention and the purpose of this blog. I tried programming simple Cocoa applications for quite some time now and I’m currently starting to get deeper into Cocoa development because of my job I will start soon. Playing around with Cocoa is one thing. Working with books, trying out the example code, building own small tools… This is fine as long as your needs are covered by the text books. If you need to dig deeper into the technology you start googling and searching mailing lists. But at some certain point, you simply have to start thinking by yourself and BAM, there is it… nobody can really help you, even if you think that the problem you try to solve is needed by everyone on this whole planet!

And this is where this blog comes into play… I am one of these Cocoa newbies – with a little background already – wanting to become a Cocoa guru on his own. I’m facing a lot of problems here lately, and I think that putting these problems and my solutions on paper might help me to figure some things out and learn from it. A positive side effect might be that somebody out there is at the googling stage in his development curve and can profit from my semi-professional knowledge that hopefully becomes a lot bigger as soon as possible

The topics will mainly cover development of cocoa applications, having concrete problems and my ideas how to solve them. Of course everybody who reads it – if any- can help and provide corrections or ways to improve. Besides the development I might also bring up some other related topics that follow me in my life, book reviews, how to’s and some nonsense of course

So… let’s get started! I hope I will be able to start blogging soon. There are ideas already and they wait to be published out there

See you soon!