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I’m an independent IT consultant and entrepreneur in the Internet and software business. I’m interested in design, enterprise applications, web apps and SaaS products. I design and develop business solutions and applications. I help companies in terms of software quality and knowledge transfer, e.g. with Angular and Spring Boot.

Cassie Evans – Animating the Impossible @ btconf Düsseldorf 2023

Sunday May 28th, 2023 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications

Michelle Barker – Modern CSS Layout is Awesome! @ btconf Düsseldorf 2023

Sunday May 21st, 2023 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications

The Disappearing Computer: An Exclusive Preview of Humane’s Screenless Tech | Imran Chaudhri | TED

Sunday May 14th, 2023 by Bjoern in Design, Mobile Applications, Software

Aborting UNIX Processes Running Under a Specific TCP Port

As a longtime UNIX (of the macOS variety) / Linux user, it's kind of embarrassing that only recently I was made aware of this single command (or rather - in a true UNIX fashion: a composition of two commands) that allows you to stop a UNIX process running under a specific TCP port (e.g., a Spring Boot application or an Angular front-end during development) - rather than browsing for that port in a process list first and then manually using the ...

Sunday May 7th, 2023 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applications

Sophie Koonin – This Website Is under Construction, a Love Letter to the Personal Website @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2023

Sunday April 30th, 2023 by Bjoern in Design, Web

Jeremy Keith – Declarative Design @ “Stories on the Road”

More on this idea: Design & Quantum Superposition

Sunday April 23rd, 2023 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications

Upgrading to Spring Boot 3 Using Spring Boot Migrator

Even though the upgrade process for Spring Boot 3 is pretty straightforward - in case you need to migrate a more than moderately complex project (or several thereof), upgrading Spring Boot applications indeed can become quite tedious and error-prone, too. To alleviate this potential problem, and in order to automate the Spring Boot upgrade process, there's Spring Boot Migrator. Based on the terrific OpenRewrite toolkit for automated large-scale refactoring efforts, Spring Boot Migrator provides you with recipes for migrating both Spring Boot 2.7.x ...

Sunday April 16th, 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

Java Design Patterns

Based on Christopher Alexander's pattern language, design patterns in software allow us to apply reusable patterns to common use cases and scenarios in software development instead of having to reinvent the proverbial wheel each time we're facing similar problems. If you'd like to brush up on design patterns in the context of Java as a programming language, Java Design Patterns has you covered. Java Design Patterns is a website "showcasing Java-based design patterns, principles, and code snippets". For a more general, language-independent overview ...

Sunday April 9th, 2023 by Bjoern in General

JSON Visualization With JSON Crack

JSON Crack is a JSON visualization solution that allows to generated ad-hoc graph visualizations for your JSON data. While one of the huge advantages of JSON over other data formats certainly is that it's human-readable, more complex JSON documents containing linked data structures can become unwieldy and difficult to understand - at a cursory glimpse, at least. Such situations is where a tool like JSON Crack for visualizing data can come handy.

Saturday April 1st, 2023 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applications

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