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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.

Modern SQL (with PostgreSQL)

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.SQL expert Markus Winand some time ago posted an insightful presentation on Modern SQL (mostly PostgreSQL-focussed) at SlideShare. The 116 slides contain plenty of modern SQL idioms you likely haven't used before. Even if you're an experienced SQL developer the presentation is still worth checking out.

Supporting the Idea of an Unconditional Basic Income

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.About a year ago Scott Santens - self-declared writer and advocate of basic income for all - wrote a highly recommendable piece on why should support the idea of an unconditional basic income. In this article he debunks common myths about less desirable repercussions a basic income might have (such as suddenly nobody wanting to do any work anymore ...). He makes a few salient points as to why a basic income is the right ...

21. Juni 2015 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Ideen

Everything you ever want to know about enterprise sales

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.This title sounds a bit like dirty secrets, doesn't it? When thinking of enterprise software sales most people think about arcane, lengthy, sometimes sleazy bureaucratic processes entailing: Vendors who are very secretive about pricing: If you have to ask for a price our product isn't for you! Lots of pointless meetings Obnoxious PowerPoint presentations A plethora of stakeholders A decision maker who won't be using the software product being bought and - of course - a user who doesn't have ...

14. Juni 2015 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship

Money is not a scorecard

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Two weeks ago I came across an interesting article on the Mr. Money Mustache blog: "What I’m Teaching my Son about Money" As is usual for Mr. Money Mustache it's a very insightful post about money, financial independence, how to achieve it and what to do with it. I love his blog because he not just tries to educate people about personal finance or money as an end to itself but about money with a purpose. ...

7. Juni 2015 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Ideen

Freelance Developers: Get Your Act Together!

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Time and time again I get emails starting like this: Good morning Harvey Nash Business Partner, I would like to make you aware of a new contract that we have open at the moment [ ... ] I didn't bother to anonymize this particular example because somebody who can't bother to look up a person's name on the Internet certainly doesn't care about some negative publicity either. So, go look up their website, I'm sure Harvey Nash are ...

31. Mai 2015 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship

beyond tellerrand 2015

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Last week I attended beyond tellerrand 2015 in Düsseldorf. This year marked the fifth iteration of the event. It was once again a fantastic two days filled to the brim with a wide range of inspiring, insightful and technical talks about design. In the next few weeks I'll be posting more about some of the talks including live recordings as those become available. Until then I'll leave you with the marvellous opening titles for this ...

24. Mai 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Entrepreneurship, Web

UX Time: Responsive Tables and Smoothly Scrolling Through Large Datasets

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Today I'd like to introduce two nifty and very useful tools and techniques for better visualizing tabular data on the Web: Responsive Tables in Pure CSS: This technique (code available here) makes clever use of :before and :after pseudo elements in order to nicely display responsive HTML tables on mobile devices (or any device with a smaller screen size for that matter) without any changes to the HTML code or having to resort to JavaScript. Clusterize.js, ...

17. Mai 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

The Turing Exception by William Hertling

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.About a year ago I wrote about the "Avogadro Corp" by William Hertling, the first book of his Singularity Series. A week ago I finished reading "The Turing Exception", the fourth and final instalment and a worthy close to the series. The Turing Exception follows common patterns of the series. Avogadro Corp was set in 2015 with its sequels taking place 10 years later each. With The Turing Exception we've now arrived at around 2045 ...

10. Mai 2015 by Bjoern in Ideen

JHipster: A Spring / AngularJS App Generator

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.You're a boring, hoary Java developer but secretly always wanted to belong to that hip JavaScript-Single-Page-Application crowd? Well, with JHipster now you can! On a more serious note, JHipster is a Yeoman generator that lets you bootstrap integrated Java (for the back-end server stuff) / AngularJS (for everything front-end and UI) web apps. JHipster makes use of proven technologies such as: Grunt Bower AngularJS Maven Spring Boot Spring Web MVC The project's goal is to provide the means for easily creating a ...

3. Mai 2015 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

Some Free Design Resources

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Pexels (a free stock photo site) have published a small but useful list of free design resources on their blog. From typography, icons and colour palettes to free design tools such as GIMP or Inkscape, the list is far from comprehensive but contains helpful stuff nevertheless.

26. April 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung

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