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Hello, my name is Alexander Saar. I'm a software engineer & software project manager, a sports freak and a photographer. I use this blog to publish interesting stuff about me and the experiences I made in my daily life and work.

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Tuesday Aug 21, 2007

I just create a Technorati profile for myself. No you are able to track my publications at my Technorati Profile.

Posted at 04:09PM Aug 21, 2007 (Permalink) by Alexander Saar

Tuesday Mar 27, 2007

If you want to meet with me for discussing things related to Mindquarry, my work or other topics, I will attend to the following conferences:

Posted at 01:27PM Mar 27, 2007 (Permalink) by Alexander Saar

Monday Mar 26, 2007

Last friday Lars and I received our master grade in software systems engineering at the public graduation ceremony of the HPI. It was very impressive to see all those young and highly skilled software engineers that will start working now. You may ask: What, those guys didn't finish their studies up to now? Yes, that's true. In the beginning of 2006 we saw that it was the right time to start development of a product like the Mindquarry Collaboration Server. Therefore we decided to start Mindquarry even if our studies were not finished.

During the last months it was very hard to work for Mindquarry full time and write my master thesis at the weekend. But finally all this hard work was rewarded with the promising start of Mindquarry and a very good master grade. Below you can see a picture of me with robe, cap and sash that was made by a professional photographer after the ceremony.

 

At the graduation ceremony, Prof Scheer former member of the SAP supervisory board and founder of IDS Scheer gave a talk about transfering knowledge from university to the real world. While his presentation was more a kind of story telling about the way of IDS Scheer towards business process management consulting, there was one slide which was really impressive. On this slide Prof. Scheer showed his opinion about the ideal mixture for an entreprenerial team. The main characters you need in your team are:

  • Albert Einstein for analytical and visionary thinking,
  • James Bond for flexibility and fighting spirit,
  • Willi Brand for showing that you are serous and believable, and finally
  • Daniel Düsentrieb for getting things done on the technical side.

If you know us, I let it up to you to decide which one of us fits into which category...

Posted at 12:56PM Mar 26, 2007 (Permalink) by Alexander Saar

Tuesday Mar 20, 2007

Hello friends of Mindquarry,

my name is Alexander Saar and I'm the CTO of Mindquarry. I started this blog for writing about technical decisions regarding Mindquarry's development process, product platform strategy, technical innovations, roadmap and so on.

Everybody is welcome to discuss these topics in this blog. The one and only rule is, stay on the topic and have fun ;-)

Kind regards, Alex

Posted at 02:36PM Mar 20, 2007 (Permalink) by Alexander Saar
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