Meanwhile, there is a debate for a long time whether architecture and design are the same thing or not. The advocates of the “both are the same” thesis say that architecture is basically the first stage of design, while the opponents of this thesis claim that architecture and design are completely different tasks that just share some more or less fuzzy line of contact. So, who the heck is right? read more…

Englisch version coming soon …

This is a reflection of the meet the experts – architecture that took place at codecentric in Solingen at November-27-2009.

Since the whole event including all talks was held completly in german an english version of this reflection would probably not be very expedient. Thus I decided not to translate this announcement.

You can read the full version of the reflection if you switch the language to german (by clicking on the german flag in the upper left corner of this page).

Beyond that we will – of course – carry on providing an english version of our blog entries.

This post shall sum up the results from our fruitful discussion on friday evenig. The idea for the open space discussion was sparked by Stefan Zörner who talked about modularity and what happens when you have no control over modularity. This post will not try to repeat the discussion but merely conserve the results:
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Back after having a great evening at todays RheinJUG talk held by Neal Ford. It was almost a perfect fit for our upcoming Meet the Experts – Architecture. Because Neal has the slides on his github, I just want to briefly summarize my personal takeaways.
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This is the announcement of the meet the experts – architecture at November-27-2009.

Since the whole event including all talks will be held in german an english version of the announcement would probably not be very expedient. Thus I decided not to translate this announcement.

You can read the full version of the announcement if you switch the language to german (by clicking on the german flag in the upper left corner of this page).

Beyond that we will – of course – carry on providing an english version of our blog entries.