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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.

Dave Shea: A Brief History of Web Design

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2015 David Shea, creator of the seminal website CSS Zen Garden gave a talk about the history of web design. David Shea takes us back on a - somewhat nostalgic - journey 25 years back to remind us about nigh forgotten websites and services (does anybody still remember Hotmail and GeoCities?). There are lessons to be learned from those early incarnations of web design and mistakes to be avoided. Moreover, and ...

23. August 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web

Petro Salema – Designing Interfaces That Think @ beyond tellerrand Düssedorf 2015

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Earlier this year at beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2015 I had the privilege to attend a talk by Petro Salema. Petro shared his insights about today's limits in human computer interaction, attention span, mental bandwidth and how to address these issues. While the subject matter itself is interesting enough already I've never personally witnessed such rivetting storytelling before. He started his talk with a captivating story from his home country Tanzania about Bwakila, a machete-wielding madmen. This ...

16. August 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Applikationen, Software, Web, Web Applikation

Cameron Herold: Let’s raise kids to be entrepreneurs

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In this passionate TED talk Canadian entrepreneur Cameron Herold argues for raising kids to be entrepreneurs instead of lawyers or accountants if we want to solve the world's problems: Not only is he spot on but he also underpins his point with his personal experience of how he was raised to be an entrepreneur. Cameron presents a breathtaking string of entrepreneurial stories and business ventures from both his childhood and from how he's raising his ...

9. August 2015 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship

Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Ron Finley is a self-proclaimed guerilla gardener from Los Angeles who took the initiative and went about making his neighborhood a better, healthier place to live by converting vacant lots in the "food desert" of South Los Angeles (formerly known as South Central Los Angeles) into vegetable gardens. Ron truly is an epitome of "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." taking steps as tiny as planting a tomato ...

2. August 2015 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Freimaurerei

Tiny but valuable life hack: Drastically increase the lifespan of disposable razor blades

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Disposable razor blades are expensive and they usually need to be replaced after 4-5 shaves. Now, in the olden days men used special leather strips to sharpen those old-fashioned straight razors nowadays only barbers still seem to be using. These maintenance skills seem to have been lost over time leading to the current business model that's quite similar to the one for inkjet printers: The actual product is sold at a bargain price, sometimes ...

26. Juli 2015 by Bjoern in Business, Ideen

Expanding Human Sensory Perception

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In this mind-blowing TED talk neuroscientist David Eagleman talks about his exciting work to extend and substitute human senses and even add completely new channels to the gamut of human sensory perception that will allow us to make more sense of an increasingly complex world more quickly and more readily: Can we create new senses for humans?

19. Juli 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Ideen

Data Visualizations by Stefanie Posavec

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.This February at this year's Reasons To Be Creative London spin-off I had the opportunity to watch Stefanie Posavec give a presentation on post-infographics and data visualization. Her work and the way she has of using novel visual approaches to get the gist out of complex datasets is insightful and the results often are as entertaining as they are informative. Take this idea for instance, which conceptualizes the complex interactions of friends on Facebook as ...

12. Juli 2015 by Bjoern in Design

ng-admin: Create admin panels from REST APIs

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.ng-admin is a helpful AngularJS UI component that automatically creates an admin user interface for RESTful APIs. Such a component is particularly useful for instance with back end applications in enterprise contexts because it allows you to quickly implement and iterate basic user interfaces based on your current model and its API.

5. Juli 2015 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

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