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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.

Exporting table data in web applications as CSV or Excel files

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In business applications being able to export data to Microsoft Excel is a very common requirement. In most business environments Excel is the go-to tool for business analytics and quick-and-easy data processing. Hence, being able to communicate with Excel is an essential feature for most kinds of business software. The usual approach for meeting that requirement is generating a CSV file on the server. However, while simple this approach can come with a few downsides: While ...

Co-create

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Half a house is a 99% Invisible (a podcast about anything design and architecture - highly recommended if you haven't subscribed yet) episode about a housing project in the Chilean town of Constitución. After an 8.8 magnitude earthquake in 2010 the people of Constitución were in dire need of affordable housing. The solution the Chilean architecture firm Elemental, who were tasked with the project, came up with is equally radical and beautiful. It epitomises the spirit ...

22. Januar 2017 by Bjoern in Design

The Blockchain’s Potential to Change Business And Society

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I'm fascinated by the blockchain and in particular the potential it holds for decentralising and disintermediating business processes. Though certainly intriguing as well I'm not so much interested in the implications the blockchain and Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that's built on the blockchain, have for payment and financial systems. My area of interest rather is with how the blockchain enables us to rethink business processes that until now required some sort of third-party intermediary to establish ...

15. Januar 2017 by Bjoern in Business, Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, Software

Golan Levin on Software (as) art

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I'm very interested in generative art and creative data visualisation techniques by designers and artists such as Mike Brondbjerg, Jared Tarbell and Joshua Davis. In this 2004 TED talk media artist Golan Levin showcases some of his brilliant work that uses software to generate sound and accompanying visuals:

8. Januar 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Googling For Developers

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I sometimes jokingly say: "I’m not a good programmer. I just know how to use Google effectively." When programming and being confronted with an unknown error, stack trace or a specific exception message I usually turn to Google in order to find out how other developers with similar problems previously approached these issues. While at face value this might sound easy this requires experience. You have to know enough about software development in general and the ...

1. Januar 2017 by Bjoern in Software

Spring Batch Resources: Batch Processing, ETL And Data Conversion

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.ETL (extract, transform, load) processes, data processing, exporting data from one business system (ERP, CRM, accounting etc.) and importing it into another are common requirements in enterprise IT. So much so that the ability to export and import data often is the key feature of enterprise software. Spring Batch is a toolkit in the context of the widely used Spring framework that allows you to define and run batch jobs and data processing pipelines. Spring ...

25. Dezember 2016 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Interactive Flowcharts with code2flow

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Visualisation often helps immensely when trying to understand complex systems and interactions. Visualising these systems and their behaviour can be a daunting task though: Covering each and every path a workflow or process might take can be quite arduous. In many cases it's not even possible to comprehensively describe a system that has not yet been implemented. Edge cases frequently only tend to surface once a software has been tried out under real conditions. Software in ...

18. Dezember 2016 by Bjoern in Software

Matt Ranney @ GOTO 2016: What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At the GOTO Chicago 2016 enterprise software conference Matt Ranney, chief systems architect at Uber and co-founder of Voxer gave a presentation on what they learned from adopting microservices on a massive scale at Uber: "To Keep up with Uber's growth, we've embraced microservices in a big way. This has led to an explosion of new services, crossing over 1,000 production services in early March 2016. Along the way we've learned a lot [ ... ...

11. Dezember 2016 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

A Collection Of Common UX Myths

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.UX Myths is website on common UX misconceptions like "The homepage is your most important page", "You are like your users" or "Icons enhance usability". The authors shed light on where those myths come from, why they're wrong and what can be done to improve your design process in each case.

4. Dezember 2016 by Bjoern in Design, Software

JSCity – Code Complexity Visualization For JavaScript Codebases

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.JSCity is a tool for visualising JavaScript source code complexity that uses the CodeCity metaphor. This approach makes use of the building blocks of modern cities for visualising the building blocks of software. Since in JavaScript functional programming is the predominant programming paradigm JSCity represents code artefacts like this: folders are districts files are sub-districts functions are buildings inner functions are represented as buildings on the top of their nested function / building This for example is the visualisation of ...

27. November 2016 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

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