The Mue

That’s me, Frank Müller

Hello, my name is Frank ‘The Mue’ Müller, friends sometimes just call me Mue. My family and I live in beautiful Oldenburg in the north-west of Germany. I like to work with computers since 1984, when I got my first one, a Schneider CPC 464. So based on this interest I started to work in IT until today.

In addition to my full-time job in IT, I also publish on this topic on the side. This includes articles for various magazines as well as talks at conferences. And of course, this blog is also part of it.

The 1990s – The decade as a system operator

After my time in the military and my side job as a programmer, I started my professional career in the early 90s. For the first few years, I worked for an insurance company, where I dealt with IBM systems. Later, I was an administrator of high-availability Solaris clusters and a few Linux servers. These were really nice systems that shaped my affinity for Linux.

Tideland

Erlang/OTP

Earlier projects are currently scanned and sorted for reusage. The selected ones will be refactored to actual standards and then published here. New projects will be added then.

Go

• Go Actor allows convenient concurrency following the actor model
• Go Actor simplifies testing and will replace audit
• Go Audit for testing and test data generation
• Go Cells providing a single node event processing environment
• Go JWT creates and handles JSON Web Tokens
• Go UUID generates UUIDs v1, v3, v4, and v5
• Go Wait allows waiting for defined conditions by polling
• Go Wait provides a throttled and graceful task processing

This series of projects is currently being tidied up. Some topics have become obsolete, but others remain my hobbyhorse. However, this will only progress slowly, as I’ll be romping around in Erlang/OTP for the time being.

Is there a gap between you and me? Or am I becoming schizophrenic? Don’t worry, everything is fine. I’m still just one person – Frank Müller. But so far, I’ve only blogged here about a mix of different topics. I didn’t really warm to it over a longer period of time. So I thought about what I would like to blog about and how.

My world in IT

First, I want to talk about IT. It has been with me since 1984. That was when I started programming various things on a Schneider CPC 464. One thing became a database for CDs, something else a labyrinth game with opponents and then a blackjack game that calculated the probability of each coming card. After a part-time job as a developer with Turbo Pascal, I took my first permanent position in IT in 1991. I will probably report on this career step by step here, each position had its facet. Of course, I will also report on other topics that interest me. Thoughts and ideas will also be added.