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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.

Umar Hansa: “A Modern Front-end Workflow” at Fronteers Conference 2017

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Umar Hansa - “A Modern Front-end Workflow” at Fronteers Conference 2017: Umar Hansa: "A Modern Front-end Workflow" at Fronteers Conference 2017 from Fronteers on Vimeo.

18. März 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

Work Culture and Enabling Software Developers to Contribute

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.This article by Marcus Blankenship tries to answer the question why programmers become disaffected with a company and its goals and ultimately turn to just wanting to code. As I wrote in an earlier article about paying for developer tools with developers, particularly in larger organisations, I frequently encounter a feeling of powerlessness and not having significant say in that organisation’s direction. Marcus is spot on in that he attributes this far too common attitude to ...

11. März 2018 by Bjoern in Business, Software

One Cannot Not Design

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.One cannot not communicate. - Paul Watzlawick Philosopher and communication theorist Paul Watzlawick famously stated as one of his five axioms of group homoeostasis (the ability of a system to maintain its current state or equilibrium) that "one cannot not communicate", meaning that it's impossible to completely avoid communication. Even the act of intentionally not communicating - by staying silent for example - is an act of communication. In the case of silence depending on the ...

4. März 2018 by Bjoern in Design

On Building Offline-Friendly Forms

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Frontend developer Max Böck some time ago posted an article on how to create offline-friendly web forms Using the navigator.onLine method for checking if the user is still connected to the Internet, localStorage and service workers Max outlines a method for alleviating an annoying problem that comes with using forms on the web, particular on mobile platforms: Losing data and having to fill in a form repetitively if you lose your Internet connection before that form ...

25. Februar 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Creating Resuable Web Components with Stencil

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Stencil is a compiler that generates Custom Elements (part of the Web Components specification) for reuse in any JavaScript web framework. Stencil was conceived by the creators of the Ionic Framework as means to build reliable framework-agnostic components. The Stencil developers put emphasis on creating progressive web apps that make use of modern browser features in a user-friendly manner. So, no matter if you use Angular, React or Vue.js for developing web applications Stencil allows you ...

18. Februar 2018 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applikation

The Magical Number Seven

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.This article by designer Jeff Davidson is an informative reminder of the well-known observation that human working memory has a capacity of 7 items (give or take 1 or 2). This observation, originally posited by cognitive psychologist George A. Miller in his paper The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two is a crucial guideline for designing user interfaces. If a user interface contains more than that number of different chunks of information it'll appear cluttered ...

11. Februar 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Dimensions of Software Quality: Outcomes, Continuity, Cohesion and Coupling

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.IT consultant Erik Dietrich wrote this interesting article about his approach for evaluating software quality from a business perspective. He suggests these 2 questions as the main business considerations when it comes to software quality: Does the software do what it’s supposed to do? Can I easily change what the software does? In other words: Software quality is determined by both outcome and continuity (the extent to which software allows for changing circumstances, see Jeff Sussna's book Designing ...

4. Februar 2018 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Designer Lynx: Curated Links About Design

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Designer Lynx is a curated collection of articles and other relevant resources such as design systems, icons, prototyping tools and software for designing user interfaces. Further categories include UI design inspiration and design topics such as colour and typography.

28. Januar 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web, Web Applikation

A Quick Reminder About the Relevance of Latency in Computer Systems

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.This Gist by Jonas Bonér gives a quick overview of the different latency values for accessing different kinds of data storage and memory systems and the order of magnitude by which they differ: Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know Putting this in perspective is particularly important in the context of service-based architectures like RESTful web services, Microservices and similar approaches. All-out service-based architectures might be the right the solution to some scalability and deployment problems in complex ...

21. Januar 2018 by Bjoern in Software

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