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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.

Peter Müller @ Fronteers 2019: High Performance Web Fonts

Peter Müller - High Performance Web Fonts from Fronteers on Vimeo.

Jennifer Wadella @ NG-DE 2019: Handling Angular Forms Without Losing Your Sanity

Sunday December 8th, 2019 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

Guilherme Ventura @ NG-DE 2019: Watch out: observers are here to stay

Sunday December 1st, 2019 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

Kim Maida @ NG-DE 2019: Subjecting State to Good Behavior

Sunday November 24th, 2019 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

Katerina Skroumpelou @ NG-DE 2019: Sustainable Development Team with Angular and the PAMstack

Sunday November 17th, 2019 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

JSON Web Tokens: Downsides, Best Practices and Secure and Robust Alternatives

JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) nowadays are commonly used for transmitting authentication data in web applications, especially those exhibiting the widespread client-server architecture where you have a fat client / single-page application written in JavaScript as a front-end and a back-end server providing REST endpoints for use by that front-end client. However, while common there are good arguments against this practice. In a nutshell, JWT often are used for storing session data such user authorization and authentication information although they aren't particularly well-suited to ...

Sunday November 10th, 2019 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

“Accessible HTML Content Patterns” by Eric Bailey

Accessibility, though unfortunately often still treated as an afterthought, is a key part of developing and providing software products, web applications in particular. Accessibility, mark you, isn't just an enabler for those with special needs, although that's sufficient reason for paying attention to your web apps being accessible. Accessibility also is about designing products and processes to be accessible regardless of the device they're used on, the circumstance they're used in and the people they're used by. In that vein, designer Eric Bailey ...

Sunday November 3rd, 2019 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

Rarely Used But Useful PostgreSQL Features

I'm an avid user of SQL and the variety of - frequently overlooked - features it provides. However, unfortunately the possibilities of SQL and modern, advanced open source incarnations of RDBMS such as PostgreSQL aren't utilised to the extent they could be when developing web or enterprise applications today. More often than not SQL database are perceived as a mere data store for persisting object-oriented data, which can give rise to the famous object-relational impedance mismatch. SQL servers, PostgreSQL in particular, are capable ...

Sunday October 27th, 2019 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

Imagination, Desire and the Call of the Future – David Delgado @ beyond tellerrand 2019

Imagination, Desire and the Call of the Future - David Delgado from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Sunday October 20th, 2019 by Bjoern in Design

Boring Solutions Revisited: Choose Boring Technology by Dan McKinley

Dan McKinley's article on choosing boring solutions, although not exactly new anymore, has been a welcome reminder for me to revisit the topic of of using boring solutions and keeping things simple. Dan makes the point that "adding technology to your company comes with a cost" or as I stated in my own article on this subject: "The elephant in the room is: There’s an opportunity cost to everything." Most choices come with a trade-off. If you decide to use a technology for the ...

Sunday October 13th, 2019 by Bjoern in Business, Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, Software

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