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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.

Cracking the Code – David Jonathan Ross

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At this year's beyond tellerrand typeface designer David Jonathan Ross gave an interesting talk about the typography of programming, including its history and the design rationale behind monospace fonts, in his own words hitting the sweet spot that is the nerd trifecta of history, programming and fonts: Cracking the Code - David Jonathan Ross - btconfDUS 2016 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo. The talk contains a lot of intriguing insights into why programming fonts are ...

Christopher Murphy: Time + Creativity

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In this beyond tellerrand talk designer Christopher Murphy emphasizes the importance of procrastination and reserving time for experimentation and endeavours not directly related to a specific goal at hand: Time + Creativity - Christopher Murphy - btconfDUS 2016 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo. While procrastination usually is seen as something negative - and in most cases rightfully so - setting aside time for a free flow of thoughts and ideas that's not immediately purpose-driven is ...

17. Juli 2016 by Bjoern in Design, Software

72: Easily Predicting Growth Rates

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Mathematics undeniably has countless applications that are both intriguing and vital to modern society. It's of pivotal importance in broad areas such as research, innovation, engineering and human progress in general. However, it often seems that maths other than basic arithmetics is of little importance in everyday life, doesn't it? Apart from the obvious, such as all the wondrous contraptions we use every day made possible by modern technology, which in turn by a large part ...

10. Juli 2016 by Bjoern in Business

Valleys Of Green And Grey

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In the light of recent political events I thought about if and what to write about this whole mess. This writing would've involved copious amounts of insults and swearing. While certainly fun, such an exercise would also have been rather pointless, especially since the Scots are now the official world champions in the art of insulting anyway and expressed their opinions much more eloquently than I ever could. So, instead of a political opinion piece ...

3. Juli 2016 by Bjoern in Music

Big O Notation: Less Scary Than You Might Think

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.As a software developer chances are that at some time in your professional life you'll come across a mathematical concept called Big O notation. Now, if you happen to not have a traditional university computer science / maths background, you might have a bit of a hard time grasping the common - usually strictly mathematical - explanations of Big O notation. Big O notation is tremendously useful for reasoning about performance and memory consumption of ...

26. Juni 2016 by Bjoern in Software

Security Expert Mario Heiderich About AngularJS and Security

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf this year security expert Mario Heidrich gave a fast-paced - if sometimes too abrasive for my liking - talk about security and AngularJS: This talk contains a lot of useful insights as to what to pay attention to in order to secure your AngularJS applications (or in fact any web application created with a modern JavaScript framework), as well as techniques and approaches security consultants and hackers (both the white ...

19. Juni 2016 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applikation

Dominic Wilcox: The Reinvention of Normal

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf in May London-based artist / designer / inventor Dominic Wilcox gave a hilarious talk on his work, which is at the same time ingenious, playful, sometimes ridiculous and always insightful. Some of his designs include: a pair of shoes with inbuilt GPS to guide the wearer home a stained glass driverless sleeper car, whose exterior is reminiscent of church windows a bread bulb that emanates a warm, fragrant freshly baked bread scent when ...

12. Juni 2016 by Bjoern in Design

Follow-up on “Accounting in 2016”

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Two months ago, I wrote an article on how accounting in 2016 still is a manual and tedious process. What made me write this article in the first place was the problem that I couldn't automatically get the bank account statements for my business account into my accounting software because my bank's online banking service and my accounting software have incompatible import / export file formats and neither exposes a public API for facilitating ...

5. Juni 2016 by Bjoern in Business, Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, Software

Jeremy Keith About Resilience In Web Applications @ beyond tellerrand 2016

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At this year's beyond tellerrand conference in Düsseldorf web developer Jeremy Keith gave a talk on resilience in web applications: Resilience - Jeremy Keith - btconfDUS 2016 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo. The World Wide Web - or the Internet for that matter - since its inception always was designed as a resilient, fault-tolerant medium. This not just applies in a technical sense but in a social or even political way, too. As John Gilmore is ...

29. Mai 2016 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Web, Web Applikation

TED Talk – Peter Singer: The Why And How of Effective Altruism

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In 2013 philosopher Peter Singer held a TED talk on the intriguing idea of effective altruism. The simple premise of this idea is that with altruism both the heart and the head need to be involved in order to truly make a difference and make the world a better place. While empathy and compassion for other people's suffering is a prerequisite for altruism, if altruistic action isn't undertaken in a purposeful, effective manner it does little ...

22. Mai 2016 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Freimaurerei

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