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Reden wir über Digitales.

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.

What’s Digitalisation Actually About?

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Digitalisation, or digital transformation, as it is sometimes also called is an important subject matter as well as challenge for businesses today. Therefore, I find it strangely confusing that sometimes aspects are lumped together under this umbrella that are not or only tangentially related to what digitalisation actually is about. So, here's my - perhaps opinionated - take on what digitalisation is actually about and what it entails. In a nutshell, digitalisation comprises these aspects: Rethinking ...

hex to rgb(): Convert Hexadecimal CSS Colour Values to CSS rgb() Function Calls

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Inspired by this Tweet by data visualisation and generative design expert Mike Brondbjerg I've created a tiny tool for the use case of converting CSS hexadecimal colour values to their rgb() counterparts: https://bjoernkw.github.io/hexrgb/ is there a nice online tool for converting a string of hex codes to a string of RGBs? thanks!— Mike Brondbjerg | @[email protected] (@mikebrondbjerg) February 4, 2019 hex to rgb() is a simple utility web app that converts hexadecimal CSS colour values ...

7. April 2019 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web Applikation

Dan Abramov on The Elements of UI Engineering

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Somewhat recently, Dan Abramov wrote this interesting piece on his approach to learning about UI engineering. The article's key takeaway is this: "My biggest learning breakthroughs weren’t about a particular technology. [ ... ] It’s this combination of understanding the problems, experimenting with the solutions, and applying different strategies that led to the most rewarding learning experiences in my life." In keeping with this wholistic, problem- rather than technology-oriented approach Dan starts with outlining the problems and ...

3. Februar 2019 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Jenny Shen: UX Design Across Different Cultures

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.UX designer Jenny Shen recently has been featured on the Scott Hanselman's podcast with her work on UX design across different cultures. She's published a two-part summary of her experiences with cross-cultural design and internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) of websites and applications: UX Design Across Different Cultures — Part 1 UX Design Across Different Cultures — Part 2 These articles shed light on how distributing an application or publishing a website in another country not only requires translating the content and ...

18. November 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Web, Web Applikation

The 5 Levels of Logging Explained by Orhan Kavrakoğlu

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In this article Orhan Kavrakoğlu explains the logging levels commonly used in software alongside with some pertinent examples as well as recommendations and best practices such as in which case to use which particular log level and how to present them to the target audience (i.e. other developers, system administrators or DevOps people) so they get noticed in accordance with their respective importance and urgency. As mentioned here before seemingly trivial improvements such as providing ...

21. Oktober 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Artur Śmiarowski’s Guidelines for Writing Readable Code

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Code means communication has become a bit of a mantra for me. Source code isn't just the means by which you translate requirements into commands and structures a machine can understand. Source code also communicates your intent as a designer and engineer as to what a particular piece of software is supposed to do. If written in a clear and comprehensible manner code can serve as an authoritative design specification with no or little extra ...

14. Oktober 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Björn Wilmsmann

my blog. for you.

Reden wir über Digitales.

What’s Digitalisation Actually About?

hex to rgb(): Convert Hexadecimal CSS Colour Values to CSS rgb() Function Calls

Dan Abramov on The Elements of UI Engineering

Jenny Shen: UX Design Across Different Cultures

The 5 Levels of Logging Explained by Orhan Kavrakoğlu

Artur Śmiarowski’s Guidelines for Writing Readable Code

Bret Victor: The Future of Programming

Wesley Grubbs – The Importance of Failing Successfully @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2018

Jens Oliver Meiert – The Dangers of Being a Web Developer @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2018

Miriam Suzanne – Don’t Use My Grid System (Or Any Others) @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2018