Back blogging

Posted by Dominik Tue, 08 May 2007 09:29:00 GMT

The last one and a half months I didn’t find time to write articles although I had several topics in my mind because other activities kept me busy:

First, I had been in a customer engagement with a busy schedule. It was JSF project and I was called in late to help out before the imminent release date. Working with JSF again included lots of workarounds, especially yet another workaround to get the GET verb working. I guess I’ll write a bit about that project here in the next days.

Second, vacation! Yes, I managed to have some vacation and even managed to get it in sync with the busy schedule of my wife.

Third, I’ve been talking with several startups lately. The economy is on the rise in Germany and the risk averse tendencies of the last five years are finally starting to ebb away. And Ruby gets some attention as well :-)

Fourth, a busy private schedule with lots of appointments and meetings (which I might talk about later on as well, but probably on an other blog).

But since there a several topics in my queue now, I will be blogging more often in the next weeks.

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Things to do in 2007 (Part 1)

Posted by Dominik Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:46:00 GMT

  1. Start a blog – check as done

Well, actually that was one of the things I wanted to do in 2006, but I didn’t take the time to do it, so I thought it would be good to start a blog now, early in the year, and hope that once the blog is there, I will keep on posting…

I will try to write down my thoughts on programming and software development as an art in contrast to engineering. And, if it is an art, I think that software should not only satisfy the needs and requirements of the end-users, but should satisfy certain aesthetic aspects as well.

So I named my blog “Ars Subtilior”. Ars Subtilior is a musical style that was developed in the late 14th century in the Provence. The meaning of it is

a more subtle art

and this is what I’m striving for when I write software and what I want to write about here.

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