Francisco Javier Palacios Pérez Fco. Javier Palacios Pérez
Software Developer

About me

About me

My name is Francisco Javier, although everybody knows me as Javi. Since I was a child I am passionate about computers and any technological device. The first day that I code I knew that I wanted to continue programing for the rest of my life; if my biggest hobby becomes my job it will be a dream come true.

However, my relationship with face-to-face training was not as good as I would liked; at one point in my life, I dropped out of school and started studying on my own what really excited me: computer science, and more specifically programming and management of GNU/Linux operating systems. This was a blip in my professional career, but also made me a self-taught person who quickly finds a solution to the problems that may come during the development of projects or setting up a new service on servers.

After leaving school I was working on several jobs, not related to computers, in order to get money… but I did not see myself working on any of them for my whole life. Having assumed that, I went back to studying, performing all the intermediate necessary steps to achieve the real goal: get the Multi-platform Applications Development Higher National Diploma (EQF level 5), it means being able to justify in my CV that I really know what I know without needing someone to trust my word.

Internet

My first steps on the internet started around the year 2000. At the beginning I did the same things as everyone: discover what the internet means, join chats to meet people, spend some time in the missing MSN Messenger, and so on. I started to take internet more seriously around 2003; together with some friends we started some projects, which for one reason or another never became a success… perhaps the lack of experience and youth of all the partners had something to do. It was at the end of 2004 when I decided to have my own website. At that time I did not know anything about web pages, but despite that, I created my first weblog. It was hosted until May 2007 on the servers of Geanostrum, one of those projects I mentioned before, which was not a success but allowed me to learn many things (I installed and configured my first network services: email server, jabber server, IRC server, streaming radio servers, I programmed my first bots, I met the C language…) and all of this on one of my home computers.