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Project Manchester

Erasmus in Spain inspired me to do something extraordinary after graduating. I wanted to experience another Erasmus, so I took a remote job, moved to Manchester and started 3 months of a Digital Nomad lifestyle. Manchester was very different from Madrid and so was my experience.

.GOV.UK Domains in 2014

As I had nothing better to do last weekend, I downloaded a list of all .gov.uk domains, which is published yearly by the government and used this to find out which frameworks, languages and servers are there behind the domains.

From Zero to B2 in Spanish

Two years ago I had to decide where to go on Erasmus. I’ve always liked learning languages and I studied English and German in high school. There were no options for English-speaking countries, so I was going to choose Germany. It would have made perfect sense to revise German, but in the end I changed my plans. I decided on Spain and had to learn a completely new language from scratch. And that’s how the great Spanish adventure began.

Researcher Modeling in Personalized Digital Library

Recently I finished my studies at STU FIIT. If you are interested in my master’s thesis, let me know. I’ve finished the project. I hope someone ever finds it useful.

Erasmus #7: After

It has been 2 weeks since I came back from Madrid. Now I can conclude that it was the best semester in my life. I miss all my friends and the places where we used to go together. I find it unusual that I have no difficulty understanding people in the street when they speak fast. I find it unusual that I can ask for something in a store or in a restaurant in Slovak. The first time I came to a local store in Slovakia I almost greeted them with ‘¡Hola!’. I find it unusual that I don’t use the Metro any more. It’s also a little bit colder. The same way I had to get used to Madrid, now I’m getting used to Žiar nad Hronom and Bratislava. I don’t compare them, because I love them all. I love all the places where I live.

DMOZ Domains in 2011

In 2011 I made an application that collected statistics of the domains found in the DMOZ web site directory. Recently I shut the service down. The collected statistics may be useful to someone, so I made a static HTML version of the most interesting part (global domains).

http://statistiky-domen.sk/dmoz-2011

Erasmus #6: Madrid

I love Madrid. So full of people, parks, buildings, clubs, bars, churches and everything you can imagine. It offers all kinds of possibilities and so many awesome people live there. Well, maybe sometimes it seemed too big (because of the distances and all the promoters, beggars and sellers in the streets), but it’s the place where I have spent four and a half months of my life. And I love every place where I have lived and I love Madrid.

Erasmus #5: Al Máximo

Spain is a beautiful country and there are many things to see. I will try to describe a few places I’ve visited during the last 4 months (that have passed so fast). I hope that one day I come back, because there are so many interesting places I still haven’t seen.

Spanish Domains in 2013

I’m currently studying for one semester in Spain. A new country means inspiration and new interesting projects. However, all the ideas I had turned out to be not feasible enough to work on (government data mashups, learning platforms, coloquial dictionaries, vocabulary trainers, drinking games, …). Neither had I spare time for inventing applications. So I decided to use a simple technology I had originally created to detect frameworks, CMSs, javascript libraries, web servers and programming languages of Slovak domains. I have prepared statistics of Spanish domains. I hope someone (maybe you?) finds them useful.