Sounds like you need something similar to one I got for myself; http://halilk.com
It looks pretty simple at first glance. One TLDR sentence about my self. If visitor wants to see more, I expose more info on a bootstrap modal, such as showing the last ten book I read that I retrieve thru Goodreads API which is essentially populated from my kindle.
I also expose useless information like the last song I've listened on Spotify. There is also an Instagram footer showing random 8 photos at the bottom of the page along with the other social links.
Same here. I left the country (Turkey) 4 years ago, have been living in Estonia and Poland - never been happier and I earn more. Now it just feels nostalgia when I read news about Turkey and I can't care less about how fucked the country is. Not gonna raise my kids there and none of the problems bother me anymore. I stop believing in flags, made myself completely apolitic and minding my own business.
Building a gaming environment is only one of the use cases of the engine. There can be many other application areas.
In most cases road widths are satisfactory to show a road with cycle lanes.
Apart from being a software developer, I am also an amateur musician. A year ago I bought a Windows Phone and couldn't really find a good tab/note viewer application. So I decided to build one, released it free of charge and even open-sourced it.
Today, it reached 500k downloads and received much love from the folks all around the globe.
Marijuana is great if you are going to do some UI stuff and gonna work on light topics on the Front-End. The output will be more aesthetic and more artsy.
But hey! Let's don't fool ourselves here. If you are going to implement some back-end stuff and business functionality - don't code high. Thinking about abstraction levels, algorithms, core functionality, in some point you will absolutely feel like there is some sort of barrier in your brain avoiding you to think 'further'. This causes a distraction and you will have to start thinking from scratch again.
About other natural stuff like shrooms (and partially LSD) - if you get your good mind after having the first intense kick, your brain might become crystal clear and you can be absolutely productive. Coke might also work, but that's too expensive. Stay away from the rest.
Steve Jobs was on LSD when he was inventing Apple in his Garage.
I was not directly referring to Poland here but more like to the tech driven countries of Europe (Germany, Estonia, Scandinavian countries etc.)
As for Poland, indeed the white-board meetings will held in Polish if everybody else is Polish.
Being a non-Polish developer employed in Poland - during the relationships I engage with other partners or the projects that I work with my team, everybody are totally Okey switching to English for discussion. In-fact they think that they are improving their communication skills.
Talking about documentation or any other material that is necessary for a software project, I have never seen a language other than English in such places.
Of course these are the companies/projects has a revenue, impact or importance higher than an average one. If you are developing websites for locals with ASP.NET 1.1, just ignore what I have been talking about.
For Poland go for pracuj.pl and have an account on goldenline.pl (Linkedin-like platform - I usually receive a job opportunity per week even though I am currently employed)
Note that both of these platforms are only available in Polish language. Google translate usually helps and most of the jobs you might have a chance are already posted in English. You may consider applying to those jobs posted in Polish as well. They will consider you as a candidate if you are good. I am the only non-Polish employee of my current company for example.
For Germany, there are many platforms that I am sure you will be able to find with a little effort on Google. There are many start-ups in Berlin as well as enterprise tech companies. Regardless of the size of the company, most of them are already international environments where all the internal communication goes in English.
I want to underline that in most countries in Europe, the language of programming and tech environments is mostly English (documentation, internal communication, white-board meetings). So just English is enough in most cases. (I can confidently tell this, because the city that I currently live is neither a touristic nor a big one where multi-national companies usually have offices - it's a damn small city with a population of 300k)
Of course being able to speak the native language is beneficial, but not mandatory. As long as you get the job done, there are literally no problems.
I am originally from Istanbul, Turkey. But got my master degree on Software Engineering -again in my way- in Tartu, Estonia.
Usually every country here has their own online job searching tools. But then again a good looking Linkedin account, combined with an active github account where you contribute to open-source projects, always works.
If you will be more explicit about the country you are willing to go, I might tell you where you should look.
I am a Software Engineer living in Europe and this is my 5th job in the 5th distinct country. I generally work for a maximum of 2 years period and then change my job to another country. Currently I am in Poland and my next stop will be Budapest or Berlin.
There are literally thousands of open positions for a Dev. in Europe and the only thing you need to do is to be good at what you are doing and speak English.
I used to experience the exact same problem (full-time job on weekdays, contribution to side/open-source projects in the evenings and at the weekends = no time for SO) until I figured out a solution.
Follow these 3 steps and you will probably be fine:
- Be responsive to your SO while programming. Whenever she asks something or comes up with a topic to discuss, do not give short answers - instead give a short break, hibernate the universe that you are in while coding for a while and talk to her. When you feel that she got satisfied with your speech/action/response and got what she wants, get back to work again.
- Choose one of the days at the weekend and do not code that day.
You can still think about the problem you were struggling with the other day or the next feature you would like to implement and take little notes about them. But do not code. This will boost your productivity too.
- Divide your time for coding into reasonable time frames (e.g. 1 hour) that you believe you will be productive. And give at least 15-20 mins break between each time frame. The key point is that go and talk to your SO during these breaks and do not ever think about the last problem you were struggling with. Really, with all your mind, be with her.
I believe that the root of the problem is a coding zombie that just eats, goes to toilet and codes all the time.