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Hello everyone,

Yes, is been a while since I wrote a post, but the reason is mainly a huge transition in my life. ^^
I have been an iOS developer for a while which in fact I loved doing. My main thinking was, I will never leave London to move to any other city in Europe, obviously because of the language and the opportunities. (there are quite many there)

It turns out that, no matter how good your plan is or what you been thinking, there are some offers that you simply cannot refuse.

I experienced that decision making paradigm which comes with a predefined decision and from 1st of May I joined 6wunderkinder to do Mac OS X development.

So at some stage in April I got the official offer and 3 days to think about it.

No matter how many people I have asked, their answers were always 50-50, believe me, there is no one next to you that will make such decision for you, is just to much to ask. The funny thing is that the moment I got the offer, I already accepted it. (in the back of my head)

Since I never visited Berlin before in my life, I was a bit scared, questioning my self, What’s there? Will it be nice? Will I be able to manage without speaking German? These are hard questions to answer because living is a whole different thing than just visiting for vacations.

Now, I moved to Berlin!!! The city is fantastic… Finally I get to drink a beer on the street without violating the law. Yeah in London apparently you cannot walk around with a can of Stella, so pathetic.

Few facts  so far:

• Everything is cheaper and I am not exaggerating, ok maybe shopping is a bit more expensive (clothes, shoes e.t.c.)
• Drinking outside is not a crime.
• You can smoke in the bars and clubs. ( this is something I did not expect )
• It is possible to rent an apartment and commute 20mins maximum to get to work.
• Techno/minimal is the music of this city.
• Starting work at 10:30 and having a launch break at 12:00, seems normal.
• A monthly ticket for transportation costs 74€.
• You pay an additional ticket (1,50€) for your bike.
• Dogs can get in anywhere.
• Curry wurst is the food.
• Stadtmitte is my favorite area.

It is my happiest periods ever, doing what you love, with people that are in the top of their field, it makes work so interesting… Is the first time I work for a startup company and is quite new to me. “That everyone is good” that is a fact, the portfolio outlines that, but their passion about their work is something unique…

This post is for thanking all the people that contributed so far, my family, my dearest friend Vasileios ( desactive.co.uk ) , a designer based in London that you should hire, because he is soon to graduate and on the run for an awesome job , Vasileia ( vasileia.me ) , a Java developer based in Nuremberg that helps me the most with my German lessons. Blasco, Mudasar ( mudasar.co.uk ), Khaled and Lorenzo ( lblasa.com ) for all the code we wrote together and of course Argiris ( argiris.me ) for supporting nscoding.

That’s all for now

Sure I will come back with posts related to Cocoa, till then have fun, Love from Berlin!

Well first of all this post is not relevant to Cocoa. Is related to the time that drove me towards programming. It was my first sort of “achievement” (a coursework at the university during my 2nd year, 4 years ago) and it always reminds me the day my passion begun…

The coursework was to produce an “ls”-like command for the terminal. It was my first poem and here is the code: (please do not mention any bugs because I cannot submit the coursework again )

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