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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.

Code means communication

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Writing software is all about communication. Code is a way of conveying the meaning of natural language requirements in an exact manner so that computers can make sense of the intentions of our fickle human minds and the often ambiguous ways we tend to express ourselves in. So, in that respect software development amounts to translating human concepts and notions into a language machines can understand. However, communicating with machines is only one, more technical aspect, of ...

21. August 2016 by Bjoern in Software

William Hertling – Kill Process

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I've recently finished listening to the audio version of William Hertling's latest novel "Kill Process" I think it's fair to say that I'm quite a fan of his novels and his writing. Kill Process is a bit of a departure from Hertling's Singularity series in that it doesn't deal with future events and science fiction technology but mostly takes place in the present day with a few exceptions for flashbacks to previous events in the ...

14. August 2016 by Bjoern in Business, Ideen, Software, Web

Libraries.io and Dependency CI: Open Source Library Discovery and Dependency QA

Recently, I came across Libraries.io and its companion service Dependency CI. Libraries.io is an open source library catalogue that helps you find new libraries and keep track of the ones you already use in your projects. Once set up with a GitHub project, the service monitors the repository and notifies you in case there's a new version of a dependency available. Building upon this, Dependency CI is a continuous integration service that offers 'automatic compliance testing for all of the dependencies in your ...

7. August 2016 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Shadow Gallery – I Believe

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Shadow Gallery is one of those lesser known bands in progressive metal that deserve to have made the big time but unfortunately for one reason or another never did. Their most quintessential work so far probably is their 1998 album Tyranny still featuring singer Mike Baker, who unfortunately died in 2008. The album and particular this song I Believe (featuring a well-known guest singer from a highly successful progressive metal band ...) capture ideas and ...

31. Juli 2016 by Bjoern in Music, Web

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 ...

24. Juli 2016 by Bjoern in Design, Software

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

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