A new beginning...
After several years in Revolucija (a cool name, really wonderful people), I decided it was high time to challenge myself further. I can't say I saw it coming or worked towards in any deliberate way, but it was certainly a life changing event. So here goes...
I moved from Croatia to Ireland, 2000 km north by north-west, not so much as part of the emigrant workforce wave abandoning the leaky ship that Croatia is, but simply as a guy in IT getting the opportunity to live abroad a bit and work in a different environment - I started working in Ammeon, a big company that has very different dynamics compared to where I worked before.
Deciding to move on was difficult. I am not a person to lightly give up my daily routine, friends, colleagues, family. In essence, a lot of the things that meant something to me. Aside from the country differences in language, culture and people, there would be no more hanging out with friends every day.
Six months later, my probation period now passed, I'm working as a full-time employee. The weather has not been nearly as abysmal as advertised, the people and the overall mentality are great, as well as the food (which deserves a topic of its own). However, I do get a feeling I'm living like something of a recluse, just popping in on Skype to peak into the lives of friends and family back home.
This website has not been updated for a very long time and, all things considered, what better time to amend that than now. I do hope it will have a better second run. I moved it from shared hosting to a VPS because I wanted more freedom to experiment and now I'm using it as a platform for various side projects that can be showcased here. They are nothing special, but they are fun to develop.
I don't have anyone to design things, but with the new CSS libraries, something decent-looking can be produced. The client-side part has been taken over by Vesna (so I am not really typing away into the small hours of the night all by my lonesome) and she's doing all the code in that area, although I venture in there from time to time to keep myself in shape.
My drawing and painting has been hobbling along. Barely. I hope that getting my feet wet in game development will kickstart them a bit. It would be something other than the pure raw data that my projects tend to drench themselves in.
I'll probably be talking more once these posts become frequent enough. In the mean time, here's the new website.