Expat In Romania

It started over a year ago. I wrote  about it in February 2014 , after buying the domain and getting people on board to do the coding. In my mind I was thinking, 'a couple of months of easy coding and we're live, no problem.' But it's rarely ever like that when you start anything -especially with software. The designs were done sometime later that month. But only the first version. It was easy to get lost in the details and to over-design. My initial search-driven vision was replaced by a geo-location based, map-driven design on the advice of somebody who knows a thing or two about User Experience (UX) design. I liked it and we went with it. A friend helped with a logo and social media designs, another took on the coding responsibilities, and little things stated to happen. Except that they didn't, really.  Sometime towards the end of April or May, the cause had lost its momentum. There was a lot to do at work and I didn't have my 'eye on t...

If you've been reading the blog, you'd swear that my favourite activity is criticizing Romania. That's actually my second favourite. My favourite thing to do is to take part in that night time ritual that's been perfected in our country. It's the one activity in which all Romanians are united par excelence , one that we can boast at doing better than any other nation on earth; partying. Luckily for us citizens of Cluj, we live in a city where a good time is served on a platter, especially during what I like to call, 'Party Season', when the city's 100,000 temporary citizens, who are studying at one of the city's fine universities, come back to town. After a nice dinner at any of those fine establishments I mentioned in a previous post , you're going to need to move a little, dance it off, or at least bar hop it off. You may want to keep track of the time - or not - either way, don't expect the night to end when you're kicked out of any...