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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.

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 ...

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

One Small Step

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20. Juli 2013 by Bjoern in Music

Chosen – User-friendly select boxes

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.HTML <select></select> boxes can be rather unwieldy and don't exactly cater for a stellar user-experience. To alleviate that pain Harvest provide a highly useful jQuery plugin that's been adequately named Chosen. Apart from a nice CSS styling Chosen adds several user interface improvements to vanilla HTML select boxes such as search, easy-to-use multiple selections and option groups. Using Chosen is as easy as adding the following JavaScript code to your website: $('select').chosen(); This will automatically spruce up and ...

14. Juli 2013 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Notifications in web apps: Mailgun and Twilio

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.If you want your web app to notify your users upon specific actions or events Mailgun and Twilio are great solutions for doing so. The former allows you to - among various other features involving eMail - send eMails via a nice and simple REST API. This is particularly handy because you don't have to worry anymore about delivering eMail asynchronously in order not to delay user actions in the browser. For example, with Mailgun ...

7. Juli 2013 by Bjoern in Web Applikation

i18n is a hard and largely unsolved problem

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.After last week's post about the intricacies of dealing with date and time representations in software I promised to write about another seemingly simple yet surprisingly complex area of software development: Internationalization. Some time ago a I wrote about an interesting presentation on i18n and localization in Rails by Heather Rivers of Yammer. If you're in any way dealing with internationalization (i18n) and localization (L10n) of software (which you basically should if you're into software development) ...

30. Juni 2013 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Web Applikation

The time! The time! Who’s got the time?

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I'm currently working on an app that allows you to set and display dates and times in various ways. Hence, lately I've been working quite a bit with calendars, dates, times, date localization and all the funny intricacies that come with them. To name but a few of those: In some countries the week customarily starts with Sunday, while in others it starts with Monday. Some programming languages and date APIs use 0 as the index for ...

23. Juni 2013 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applikation

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