{"id":1474,"date":"2014-11-27T14:57:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T13:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2014-11-27T14:57:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T13:57:17","slug":"florian-pilz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2014\/11\/27\/florian-pilz\/","title":{"rendered":"Florian Pilz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s blogpost is all about me. I joined gocept about a year ago, therefore I want to tell you something about the past – and something about the future.<\/p>\n

The Past<\/h3>\n

\"Florian<\/p>\n

Before joining the gocept crew, I studied computing at the HTWK in Leipzig<\/a> for 6 years. Since sitting in a german university was not enough for me, I reached out to study in the UK for the best time of a year. This way I came to the University of Bolton<\/a> near Manchester, where – most importantly – I learned to speak English fluently.<\/p>\n

During my time in the UK I started to look into Ruby on Rails and earned my first salaries. This was the point were I switched my Linux PC for a Mac. Since I already was comfortable with Windows and Linux I wanted to try out the last big operation system out there. But as many before me, I liked the Mac so much that I still use it as my development machine.<\/p>\n

Back in Germany I continued to earn some money on the side working with Ruby on Rails. I really enjoyed using Ruby and I think in terms of readability it’s ahead of most other programming languages by several magnitudes. But Ruby also has its shortcomings, which I did not recognize until I switched to Python as my main programming language here at gocept.<\/p>\n

I also did some very interesting projects during my studies, here are just three of them:<\/p>\n