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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.

DeckWeaver and an Interview About the AI Unified Process

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.As I frequently run bespoke training sessions and project-based workshops for clients, I create quite a lot of presentations. For quite some time now, I've been collaborating with ChatGPT to help me generate content for such presentations much more efficiently. However, as I use Google Slides (rather than a Markdown-based presentation tool), I faced the significant problem of having to manually import the content into Google Slides presentations via copy and paste, which was very ...

Launching Efficiencer.ai – AI-Augmented Process Automation for SMEs

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Recently, I’ve been working on something new – a productised consulting service that builds directly on my experience in business process automation, digitisation, and IT consulting for SMEs. Today, I’m excited to announce the launch of Efficiencer.ai. Efficiencer helps small and medium-sized enterprises map their most repetitive workflows – email triage, document processing, ERP/CRM updates – and replace them with lightweight, explainable, and monitored AI automations. Using Spring AI, LangChain4j, and industry-standard tooling, we ensure future-proof ...

17. August 2025 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship

About the Roles to Assume in Software Development

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Software engineer Patrick Dubroy recently wrote this interesting article about five different hats to put on when thinking about and working with code - and much more importantly - the other people involved in the process. While each individual engineer's might differ slightly (though the most important one, in my opinion, the teaching hat, is something fairly universal), the key point is: You're not just coder. You're not an automaton merely producing code. In fact, ...

13. April 2025 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Software

Ruby on Rails: The Documentary

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar. Ruby on Rails has one of the most faithful communities online, it also has one of the most controversial, rabble-rousing creators out there, Danish programmer, David Heinemeier Hansson. Widely known as DHH, David tells us how Rails went from a crazy idea to one of the most talked-about full-stack frameworks over the course of 20 years. Given that Ruby on Rails has been hugely influential and seminal in the software development industry for the ...

26. November 2023 by Bjoern in Business, Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, Software, Web Applikation

Self-Publishing a Book With (Almost) Complete Strangers: A Recap of Our Writing Process for Stratospheric

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.This week, Philip Riecks - one of the co-authors with whom I wrote Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS - published this article about our writing process for that ebook on his new blog about subjects such as freelancing, motivation, indie hacking, or productivity: Self-Publishing a Book With (Almost) Complete Strangers This highly detailed documentation of our writing process not only describes how we went about writing, publishing, and marketing Stratospheric ...

24. April 2022 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship, Software

Working Across Timezones in Remote Work Settings and Distributed Environments

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.When working in a distributed environment or remote work environment, as is increasingly - and quite fortunately - becoming the default for knowledge workers, and the software industry in particular, chances are, rather sooner than later you'll be collaborating across timezones. I'm currently collaborating with people from EDT, GMT, CEST, MYT, JST, and AEST timezones, for instance. Asynchronous communication is crucial in a remote work setting already when no time differences are involved. It becomes absolutely ...

30. Mai 2021 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship, Software

Lösung für die COVID-19 Pandemie: Schnelltests als Zugangsberechtigung

Contrary to my usual writing habits the remainder of this post will be in German. The reason for this is that although the subject most certainly is of interest to everyone the specifics of the solution outlined in the following mostly apply to the current COVID-19 situation in Germany and my personal experience with that situation. The article therefore is mostly relevant to a German audience. If you're interested in discussing the potential for software-backed rapid COVID-19 tests in your (or ...

18. Februar 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Applikationen, Software, Web Applikation

My Remote Work Setup

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I've been a proponent of remote work, new ways of work and different approaches to work culture and the opportunities and options those provide for a long time. While 2019 arguably was the year when remote work finally caught on for more than just a select few, 2020 most definitely was the year when remote work really took off - for obvious reasons. I'd like to quickly share some of the tools and components from my ...

14. Februar 2021 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship, Software

2020 in Live Gigs

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I'm an avid music fan and concert-goer. As mentioned in last week's post I'd like to write a bit about live music events in 2020. For obvious reasons, 2020 has both been a very different and a very difficult year for live events and those that make a living from them: Artists and performers, speakers, conferences, festival, venues, sound engineers, sound and lighting technicians, caterers, stage hands. These were the only bands I was able ...

27. Dezember 2020 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Music

Fetching Incoming Invoices in an Automated Fashion With Puppeteer

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Like I said in 2016, accounting is still a manual and tedious process. However, since then I've made quite some headway, especially with regard to automatically fetching and storing incoming invoices. By now, all of those thankfully arrive via email, which allows me to have Zapier automatically fetch them and store attached invoice PDFs in the appropriate folders in Google Drive. One particular, lasting pet peeve of mine in that respect, however, so far has been ...

2. August 2020 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship, Software

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