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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.

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

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.

28. Juni 2015 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

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

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