my blog. for you.

Reden wir über Digitales.

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.

Mock Data Generators for Tabular Data

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English 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 actual ...

Stratospheric – eBook Released Today

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Today is the day! We released the first version of our eBook "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS". This version contains the following chapters: The Sample Todo Application: The first chapter describes the "The Sample Todo Application" we created as an example for introducing various AWS features, techniques, and best practices. Getting Warm With AWS: After setting up to work with AWS, you'll deploy your first Spring Boot application. No previous AWS knowledge ...

8. November 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

API-First Development with Spring Boot and Swagger at Reflectoring

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.When I recently had to look into some of the specifics of using Swagger and OpenAPI for designing an API specification and generating a Spring Boot application skeleton from that specification (using OpenAPI Generator) I came across this very useful and comprehensive article on the subject on the Reflectoring blog: API-First Development with Spring Boot and Swagger From creating an API specification with the Swagger editor to generating code (with the OpenAPI Generator Maven plugin, specifically) ...

1. November 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Objectified – A Documentary About Industrial Design

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Objectified, the second part of Gary Hustwit's Design Trilogy, deals with industrial design and examines the design of everyday objects and the life and work of the people that design them. Just like Helvetica, the first part of the trilogy, the film is largely done in an interview format and features conversations with highly acclaimed industrial designers such as Jonathan Ive, IDEO co-founder Bill Moggridge, and the legendary Dieter Rams.

25. Oktober 2020 by Bjoern in Design

Helvetica – A Documentary About a Typeface

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Helvetica by director Gary Hustwit is a documentary film about the eponymous Helvetica typeface and typography and visual design in general. Using Helvetica's simple elegance, usefulness, and ubiquity as both a starting point and a recurring theme, this documentary film features interviews with many design and typography legends and luminaries such as Jonathan Hoefler, Erik Spiekermann, or Tobias Frere-Jones. In those interviews, those typographers share their opinions on what made Helvetica so wildly successful, why it ...

18. Oktober 2020 by Bjoern in Design

Two Hard Things in Computer Science

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I've always liked Jeff Atwood's variation on Phil Karlton's original quote "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.": There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. However, with reactive programming these days this version by Dave Stagner probably is even more appropriate (especially since it uses zero-based numbering, which of course is the only decent way of indexing elements in a sequence ...

11. Oktober 2020 by Bjoern in Software

Testing Spring Boot Applications Masterclass by Philip Riecks

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.From crafting new software to refactoring existing applications automated testing is an essential part of professional software development and pivotal to high quality software. Philip Riecks (one of the other authors of our upcoming eBook Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS) offers the - aptly named - Testing Spring Boot Applications Masterclass, a comprehensive, in-depth online course on testing Spring Boot Applications. Currently (as of September 2020), the course consists of ...

4. Oktober 2020 by Bjoern in Software

A New Name for Our Upcoming Ebook: Stratospheric – From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.A few weeks ago I announced that together with fellow software developers and tech bloggers Tom Hombergs and Philip Riecks I have been working on a new project called AWS 101 for a few months now. To recap, the basic idea behind that project is to provide software developers and businesses with basic templates, recipes, building blocks, and overall best practices for developing, deploying, and running a Spring Boot application on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Since ...

27. September 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

GitLive – Real-time Code Collaboration

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Continuing on last week's subject of better collaboration and knowledge sharing in software development (with CodeStream, in that case) I'd like to share GitLive - a new, promising tool I've come across. GitLive allows you and your fellow team members to collaborate on code in real time right in your IDE thereby turning it "into a collaborative space". What I've seen so far looks intriguing. I think that we'll be moving into that direction more rapidly ...

20. September 2020 by Bjoern in Software

CodeStream – Code as a Knowledge Base

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.CodeStream is a code review tool that allows you to conduct such reviews right in your IDE, i.e. without changing context. According to their master plan CodeStream is supposed to "Provide the ability to talk about any block of code, on any branch, in any state [...]" "Eliminate context switching costs [...]" "Treat codeblocks as a first-class object [...]" in order to allow developers, both new and senior ones, to quickly get up to speed with an existing codebase ...

13. September 2020 by Bjoern in Software

Björn Wilmsmann

my blog. for you.

Reden wir über Digitales.