Hi there,

the last year was quite a ride, so I wanted to share some more or less private stuff about what is going on in my life currently:

a) As not mentioned here on the blog, I did my Bachelors Degree on Applied Computer Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences (htw saar) in Saarbrücken. After that, I started my Masters Studies in Computer Sciences at the University of Trier. I concluded my studies with the degree Master of Science in July of this year :).

b) As of July, I also started working as an Docker Campus Ambassador.The main idea of said program is to give students access to a fellow peer which is involved in Docker and could be kind of mentor to them in all Docker related questions - which was something I was already involved with back in early 2016, i.e. at the Saarcamp 2016 - so I decided to do said work in a more official way 😉

Sadly, I am going to need to resign from said position soon, as I am going to leave the University Trier at the end of the year. Which brings me to c):

c) I am going to move to another city at the end of the year and start to work for an yet to be disclosed coporation in the aerospace sector as IT Engineer with some additional work loads - which I am very excited about.

d) I am still working on my Ticketing / Convention Management System called JCTixx, and that system just got an big upgrade, in terms of new ticket scanners, which come in two different types: The big appliance version and a smaller, portable version:

Also, I had the oppurtunity to visit docker con Europe 2017 - which I am going to write about in a upcoming post.

So to sum it all up: This year was quite a ride and I am very happy how it turned out so far - and I am hoping for some vacation as soonish as possible - and more time to produce content for this blog :)! Thanks a lot for sticking with me, I just recalled that this blog is going to be 10 years old next year - which is quite awesome and I hope to continue this work with interesting articles and insights maybe from a higher - earth viewing perspective - quite soon ;).

All the best,

Nico