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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.

The 5 Levels of Logging Explained by Orhan Kavrakoğlu

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In this article Orhan Kavrakoğlu explains the logging levels commonly used in software alongside with some pertinent examples as well as recommendations and best practices such as in which case to use which particular log level and how to present them to the target audience (i.e. other developers, system administrators or DevOps people) so they get noticed in accordance with their respective importance and urgency. As mentioned here before seemingly trivial improvements such as providing ...

Artur Śmiarowski’s Guidelines for Writing Readable Code

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Code means communication has become a bit of a mantra for me. Source code isn't just the means by which you translate requirements into commands and structures a machine can understand. Source code also communicates your intent as a designer and engineer as to what a particular piece of software is supposed to do. If written in a clear and comprehensible manner code can serve as an authoritative design specification with no or little extra ...

14. Oktober 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Tool Suggestion – NGD: Angular Dependencies Graph

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.When working on a larger codebase knowing about the dependencies between components is crucial, particularly so when you're trying to understand how an existing application works. NGD - Angular Dependencies Graph (part of the Compodoc documentation suite for Angular) is a tool that - as the name suggests - generates dependency graphs (i.e. boxes and arrows) for Angular applications. Dependency graphs give you a high-level overview of an application's architecture and hence are a great ...

7. Oktober 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software

Article Suggestion: “Provide Contextual Information in Log Messages”

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Software developer Tom Hombergs recently wrote an article about making log statements more useful by providing context in order to make it easier for a developer who uses your libraries or builds upon your code to find out what the actual cause of an error is. The blog post contains many pertinent examples of both good and bad log output. Seemingly trivial improvements such as making your log output more helpful and explicit can make a ...

30. September 2018 by Bjoern in Software

On Writing Unmaintainable Code

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Software developer Andrew Yurisich maintains an - ironically - maintainable version of the authoritative guide to unmaintainable code by Roedy Green of Canadian Mind Products. This expansive, tongue-in-cheek how-to teaches developers to make themselves indispensable through writing code only they can understand. Aside from the comical value learning by what not to do can be an extremely useful method. By making sure your code follows none of the guidelines put forward in this how-to you'll already ...

23. September 2018 by Bjoern in Software

Bret Victor: The Future of Programming

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar. Bret Victor - The Future of Programming from Bret Victor on Vimeo.

16. September 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web

Wesley Grubbs – The Importance of Failing Successfully @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2018

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar. The Importance of Failing Successfully - Wesley Grubbs - btconfDUS2018 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

9. September 2018 by Bjoern in Business, Design, Entrepreneurship

RxJS: Observables, Observers, Subjects …

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.When developing web applications - or in fact any kind of application that involves interaction via a user interface - we inevitably have to deal with asynchronous events, perhaps even streams of such events, e.g.: mouse clicks asynchronous HTTP calls and subsequent display of data push notifications Because events are such an essential part of both the feature set and the user experience of many, if not even most, user-facing applications frameworks such as Angular treat them ...

2. September 2018 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Recommendation: The Freelancer’s Show

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.If, like me, you're an independent consultant or freelancer I can highly recommend the podcast The Freelancer's Show, which is about the business of consulting and freelancing in the IT / software development industry. More than 300 episodes in it covers a wide range of subjects that are vital if you want to run a successful and sustainable software consulting business. Some of the questions the show tries to answer or at least help the ...

26. August 2018 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship

Things to Consider When Creating a New Business App: A Checklist for Setting up a Java-Based Software Architecture

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Software developer Tom Hombergs - a former fellow student of mine - published this useful checklist for setting up Java applications on Reflectoring: A Checklist for setting up a Java-based Software Architecture It covers a wide array of both high and low level aspects of server-side and client-side development as well as architectural concerns. Furthermore, the checklist also has sections on operations, the development process and testing in particular. While some of the details may vary depending ...

19. August 2018 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

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