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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.

Practical Typography

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Under Butterick's Practical Typography you'll find a highly interesting, comprehensive online book by Matthew Butterick about typography and how to put it to use. The book can be read for free. However, the author suggests a variety of ways of paying him for his work. So, if you find this resource as useful as I do, please don't hesitate to compensate the author for his efforts so he'll be able to keep up his great ...

TimeSheets: Stundenzettel für mite.

TimeSheets ist ein Tool, das mit mite erfasste Zeiten tabellarisch darstellt. Nach der Eingabe des mite Kontonamens und API Keys können Zeiten nach Projekten und Zeitraum abgefragt werden. TimeSheets basiert auf Bootstrap und Angular mit verschiedenen Erweiterungen für i18n, localStorage und Co. TimeSheets kann unter https://bjoernkw.github.io/TimeSheets3/ genutzt werden. Der Source Code ist unter https://github.com/BjoernKW/TimeSheets3 verfügbar.

4. September 2013 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

MemoEasy – Termine online buchen

Terminausfälle sind für viele Unternehmen ein erhebliches Problem. Ärzte, Friseure, Versicherungsmakler - für diese Dienstleister und in vielen weiteren Branchen läuft ein Großteil des Geschäftes über vorab vereinbarte Termine ab. Nicht wahr genommene Termine sind daher nicht nur ärgerlich, sondern führen auch zu teils erheblichen Umsatzeinbußen. Solche Umsatzausfälle müssen dann erst einmal wieder aufgefangen werden. Ausgefallene Termine können kurzfristig nicht wieder neu vergeben werden. Oft werden Termine einfach deswegen nicht wahr genommen, weil Kunden ihren Termin schlicht vergessen haben. MemoEasy (das erste ...

3. September 2013 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship, Web Applikation

Great Rock Singers: Zak Stevens

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Having started this little series on great rock singers with James LaBrie naming him as my all-time favourite I must now admit that actually Zak Stevens of Savatage fame comes close to that status. Also being a very talented, technically apt singer, Zak was lucky to be lead singer for Savatage during the better part of the nineties - a band that was both well-known for the awesome feel for melody as well as ...

1. September 2013 by Bjoern in Music

Less, but better

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Great design is long-lasting. - taken from Dieter Rams' ten principles for good design. This particular principle is especially true for Rams' perhaps most seminal design, the record player Braun SK 4 that's commonly know as 'Schneewittchensarg' (Snow White's Coffin) in Germany: While the product itself is more than obsolete the ideas and concepts behind this design can still be seen in many modern day devices. This is especially true for most of Apple's designs, which ...

25. August 2013 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Why Hyperloop’s awesome and still the wrong idea

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.On 12 August 2013 Elon Musk published his much anticipated Hyperloop idea. Given his track record, Musk's 'Tony Stark'-like image and claims that Hyperloop would be a 'fifth mode of transportation' that 'could revolutionize travel' people got excited about what his exact vision might be. So, now we know: Hyperloop basically is an elevated tube through which transport capsules move. The tube's partially evacuated to reduce friction, hence allowing for much greater speed (almost approaching ...

18. August 2013 by Bjoern in Business

Great Rock Singers: Floor Janssen

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Continuing my little series on rock singers next up is Dutch singer Floor Janssen, formerly with After Forever, now being lead singer for both Nightwish and ReVamp, as well as having appeared on various Ayreon and Star One albums. Floor's a classically trained singer but very apt at singing other styles, too: While the interview is quite interesting, too, you might want to skip to 3:23 for the actual music in the last video.

11. August 2013 by Bjoern in Music

Metal Band Logo Design

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.This weekend is Wacken Open Air weekend. Unfortunately, I can't be there this year. However, I thought I might use the opportunity to write about a somewhat related topic. Metal band logos aren't thought or written about a lot. Most people take them for granted without questioning what the band or their designer had in mind when they created the logo. While this is perfectly alright I think most bands have put quite a bit ...

4. August 2013 by Bjoern in Design

PrettyGoodSync: Find Public Keys For Your Contacts

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Encryption software such as PGP and GPG unfortunately has always been suffering from low adaption rates outside of the computer nerd / hacker crowd. The less than stellar user experience of many of those encryption tools has been a major contributing factor to that. However, those tools have come long way both feature-wise and as for their usability, for instance have a look at the formidable GPGMail / GPGTools for OS X that makes ...

28. Juli 2013 by Bjoern in Software

Great Rock Singers: James LaBrie

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Because I'm very much into metal music as well as I'm into great singers I thought I'd write a few blog posts about those heavy metal singers I'm particularly fond of. First one's probably my all-time favourite: James LaBrie of Dream Theater. These are a few videos that give you an impression of his technical prowess, awesome range and versatility:

21. Juli 2013 by Bjoern in Music

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