Lifestyle

Confession: I haven’t made any purchase using mobile yet

Lifestyle,

I have worked for a Magento partner company for a few years. I have worked on projects utilizing a responsive web design concept and I have made a lot of test purchases in these projects using mobile devices. Recently I realized one thing – I have never bought anything real using a mobile device! However, I was using the App Store on my iPhone, but it doesn’t include checkout so it doesn’t count.

I make a few purchases in online stores each month. It’s usually electronics and gadgets stuff, books and toys for the kids. I used to buy groceries online and for a few months I have been buying clothes and shoes there.

When I realized that I haven’t bought anything using the technology I am working on, I was ashamed a bit. My first thought was that it’s not a great idea to share this. However, it’s time to change that. I’m going to buy only using my mobile phone for at least the next 30 days!

Work from anywhere

Lifestyle,

I have worked remotely for a few years. Actually I have worked remotely almost since the beginning of my career. There was a time when I was heading to the office almost everyday, but it was just “almost” and I wasn’t able to hang on there for more than 5 or 6 hours.

I love the mobility and ability to change the place I’m working from. Usually I work at my home office or on the terrace. Catching up with other team members is also important so this month I worked for a few days in our Bucharest office, and next month I’m going to start working in a co-working space once or twice a month. Sometimes changing to a completely different environment helps me to maximize productivity and keeps me happy.

This summer I got a chance to stay in a cottage house in Uniszowa for a week and work from there. It’s a place located in the Western Carpathians, so calm that it’s hard to see any house in a neighborhood there. The only thing I needed to figure out was the internet access. Fortunately it was really easy as the cottage was in a 4G LTE network coverage so connection was even better than at home. I was only missing a comfortable chair there but a sunbed did the job for these few days. Photo above shows a lovely sight I had from my work space.

I’m looking forwad to go to Uniszowa again this year. However, I need to wait til next summer to try a few crazy ideas about working from other calm and quiet places – work from forest or meadow :-)

What other places do you recommend for remote work?

Welcome

Lifestyle

A few years ago, in  2006 I started a PHP and Zend Framework blog under naruniec.info domain. The intention was to share my Zend Framework knowledge and experience with Polish developers while the framework grows. I stopped writing in 2009 as it was really hard to find time for blogging . It was even harder to start blogging again because a lot of important things started happening in my life – a serious job, family, children and a lot of hobbies.

Now I’m going to start blogging again. However, my areas of expertise have evolved a bit. Now the main focus is Magento. I’m going to share my Magento knowledge as well as general e-commerce and work experience.

My previous blog was naruniec.INFO and contained mostly information. This one is naruniec.ME and will also include few things about me.