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Ich bin selbständiger IT Berater und Unternehmer in der Internet und Software Branche. Ich beschäftige mich mit Design, Enterprise Applikationen, Web Apps und SaaS Produkten. Ich entwerfe und entwickle Business Lösungen und Anwendungen. Ich helfe Unternehmen in Sachen Software Qualität und Wissenstransfer, z.B. mit Angular und Spring Boot.

(English) Image Compression Utility: Squoosh

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.When working with images on web applications and websites optimising images and reducing their download size is a quick win in terms of optimising page and app load times. There are plenty of image compression utilities out there - both web apps and tools for local installation. Recently, I've tried out several of those again because I wanted to reduce the overall load time of this website and according to website audit tools such ...

(English) Managing Permissions with IAM – Sample From „Stratospheric – From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS“

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.The following is an excerpt from the chapter on "Managing Permissions with IAM" from the eBook "Stratospheric – From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS" I'm currently writing together with Tom Hombergs and Philip Riecks. You can get the eBook over at Leanpub. Managing Permissions with IAM When deploying applications to a cloud service such as AWS, reliable security concepts are key. After all, we not only want to protect our users' data but ...

Januar 10, 2021 by Bjoern in Allgemein

(English) Second Version of Stratospheric – From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.Two weeks ago, we released the second version of our eBook "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS". This release contains these new chapters on IAM, local development, and automated deployments: Managing Permissions with IAM - this chapter gives an overview of the concepts we can use with AWS in order to secure our resources and to authorize both individuals and applications to access them. Local Development Setup - this chapter explains ...

Januar 3, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

(English) 2020 in Live Gigs

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.I'm an avid music fan and concert-goer. As mentioned in last week's post I'd like to write a bit about live music events in 2020. For obvious reasons, 2020 has both been a very different and a very difficult year for live events and those that make a living from them: Artists and performers, speakers, conferences, festival, venues, sound engineers, sound and lighting technicians, caterers, stage hands. These were the only bands I was ...

Dezember 27, 2020 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Music

(English) 2020 in Review

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.May you live in interesting times. - claimed to be a translation of a traditional Chinese curse - Usually I refrain from writing one of those end-of-the-year reviews because they often amount to little more than self-involved navel-gazing (been there, done that ...). However, 2020 was a truly interesting, extraordinary and in many ways remarkable year. So, here goes, navel-gazing and all ... In December 2019 (or thereabouts) what we today know as COVID-19 or the Coronavirus ...

Dezember 20, 2020 by Bjoern in Business, Allgemein

(English) Latency by The Radiophonic Workshop

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.On the 22nd of November, the electronic music pioneers of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop (of "Doctor Who" theme music fame, amongst others) performed a unique piece of music called 'Latency', in which they make clever use of network latency to create a musical loop. Each of the musicians involved sequentially played his part in a loop. The result then was sent via the Internet to the next musician at another location, who in ...

Dezember 13, 2020 by Bjoern in Design, Music, Web

(English) Using Maven Failsafe With Spring Boot

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.Maven Failsafe is a Maven plugin designed to be used in conjunction with the Maven Surefire Plugin. While the former plugin is intended for running integration tests the latter's purpose is to run unit tests. These plugins are tremendously useful for partitioning tests in Maven-based Java applications in order to make tests and builds run faster. When recently using Maven Failsafe with a Spring Boot application, though, I encountered a somewhat gnarly problem. Running mvn ...

Dezember 6, 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

(English) The Laws of UX

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.For a discipline that's commonly seen as being mostly fuelled by creativity rather than being particularly rule-governed, principles, maxims, and laws seem to abound in the world of design. This perception of design being about creativity, first and foremost, rather than deliberate thought is a naïve and superficial one, though. Design of course has always been about principles and constraints, Dieter Rams' famous Ten principles for good design being a particularly good example. UX designer ...

November 29, 2020 by Bjoern in Design, Software

(English) Tools for Working With CSS Grid Layouts and Flexbox

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.CSS Grid Layout and CSS Flexible Box Layout, commonly known as Flexbox, are powerful techniques for implementing flexible grid and column- or row-based layouts with CSS. These two techniques enable designers and web developers to accurately and fluidly position elements and content on web pages and web applications. While Flexbox (see A Complete Guide to Flexbox by CSS-Tricks) predominantly works along a single principal dimension, called the main axis or flex direction (either row ...

November 22, 2020 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

(English) Mock Data Generators for Tabular Data

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.Developing a JavaScript-based web front-end, e.g. with frameworks such as Angular, at some point - especially during the prototype phase - often requires working with data supplied by a back-end data source. Tools such as JSON Server enable you to spin up such a data source as a REST API server in no time with zero coding involved. However, running a back-end server is only part of the equation that is testing a front-end against ...

November 15, 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

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