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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.

Fitts’ Law

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.One of the quintessential laws of human-computer interaction (HCI) and by extension software user experience is Fitt's Law, which states that the time required to rapidly move to a target area is a function of the ratio between the distance to the target and the width of the target. The most common application of this law these days can be paraphrased as "The wider an object is on the screen and the closer it is to ...

3. Juni 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Use Boring Solutions

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Often when working with both startups and project teams at larger, more seasoned companies I encounter a variation of the not invented here syndrome. This usually starts with the well-intentioned idea that in order to build the actual product you need ancillary services A, B and C in order for the product to work. However, more often than not instead of building the 'perfect' solution for your product yourself it might be a good idea to ...

27. Mai 2018 by Bjoern in Business, Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, Software

HTML is an API

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.HTML is an API or rather it could be if we used more in the way it was intended. In a comment on this Hacker News post about Toapi, a library that makes clever use of XPath expressions in order to provide an API from existing web pages, a user wrote Now I don't want to be a downer: but we collectively seem to have forgotten that HTML as a markup language with sufficient semantic ...

20. Mai 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web, Web Applikation

Analysing the Complexity of Angular Apps

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar. Analysing an existing application if you join a project. Assessing the quality and maintainability of an application. Identifying soft spots in an application which could benefit the most from refactoring. There are numerous reasons for wanting to size up the complexity of an application. In addition to general and language-specific tools provided by IDEs and applications such as SonarLint / SonarQube it can be useful to not only take framework specifics into account but to actually make ...

13. Mai 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Water Cooler Talk Is Toxic

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.An often-heard counter-argument against remote work is that those working remotely will miss out on so-called water cool talk, i.e. communication that happens casually and outside of scheduled meetings and discussions. In my opinion that kind of talk can be considered toxic. If it's merely about socialising and getting to know your co-workers better that's certainly fine and conducive to a positive work environment. However, often water cooler talk involves bandying about rumours as well as ...

6. Mai 2018 by Bjoern in Business

Stefan Judis @ RuhrJS 2017: Watch your back, Browser! You’re being observed

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At RuhrJS 2017 Stefan Judis gave an interesting talk on DOM APIs in the context of reactive programming and Observables:

29. April 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Alexandra Leisse @ RuhrJS 2017 – Death by a thousand paper cuts

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At RuhrJS 2017 UX designer Alexandra Leisse talked about her personal experience with designing user experience for enterprise applications and how to deal with the continually growing complexity involved in that process:

22. April 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Kim Crayton @ RuhrJS 2017 – What is Community Engineering?

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At RuhrJS 2017 Kim Crayton gave this energetic and hopeful as well as insightful talk on community engineering in terms of diversity and how diversity benefits both communities and companies from an economic point of view:

15. April 2018 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship

Alicia Sedlock: “The Landscape of Front-End Testing” at Fronteers Conference 2017

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Alicia Sedlock - “The Landscape of Front-End Testing” at Fronteers Conference 2017: Alicia Sedlock: "The Landscape of Front-End Testing" at Fronteers Conference 2017 from Fronteers on Vimeo.

8. April 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

Ashley Bischoff: “1Up Your Writing with Plain Language” at Fronteers Conference 2017

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Ashley Bischoff - “1Up Your Writing with Plain Language” at Fronteers Conference 2017: Ashley Bischoff: "1Up Your Writing with Plain Language" at Fronteers Conference 2017 from Fronteers on Vimeo.

1. April 2018 by Bjoern in Web

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