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    meet the experts – architecture | November-27-2009 – a reflection

    5.12.2009 | 1 minutes reading time

    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.

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