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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.

Use Boring Solutions

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Often when working with both startups and project teams at larger, more seasoned companies I encounter a variation of the not invented here syndrome. This usually starts with the well-intentioned idea that in order to build the actual product you need ancillary services A, B and C in order for the product to work. However, more often than not instead of building the 'perfect' solution for your product yourself it might be a good idea to ...

Alexandra Leisse @ RuhrJS 2017 – Death by a thousand paper cuts

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At RuhrJS 2017 UX designer Alexandra Leisse talked about her personal experience with designing user experience for enterprise applications and how to deal with the continually growing complexity involved in that process:

22. April 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Dimensions of Software Quality: Outcomes, Continuity, Cohesion and Coupling

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.IT consultant Erik Dietrich wrote this interesting article about his approach for evaluating software quality from a business perspective. He suggests these 2 questions as the main business considerations when it comes to software quality: Does the software do what it’s supposed to do? Can I easily change what the software does? In other words: Software quality is determined by both outcome and continuity (the extent to which software allows for changing circumstances, see Jeff Sussna's book Designing ...

4. Februar 2018 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Microservices and Decoupling Front-end Components

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Microservices have become a common design pattern for splitting up and modularising monolithic applications. The indiscriminate application of this particular design pattern is quite a bit worrying, though. A few months ago I gave this answer to the question what the biggest struggle with Microservices is: Convincing people that microservices are not a cure-all but just another design pattern. You have to start out with a monolith and only if you realise along the way that ...

19. November 2017 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

More on JSON and REST API Specifications

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Expanding on my previous posts about annotating and validating JSON data structure with JSON Schema defining and documenting REST APIs using Swagger I have two additional suggestions for tools that help you define and build HTTP-based APIs in a less haphazard, more deliberate manner: JSON API: While JSON Schema allows you to annotate and validate JSON-based data types JSON API gives you clear, opinionated guidelines for structuring JSON API responses so you don't have think about those implementation ...

29. Oktober 2017 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

Test-driven Development (TDD) mit Angular 2 / 4

Vor kurzem habe ich zusammen mit Jan Massenberg von Setlog einen Vortrag über Test-driven development (TDD) mit Angular beim 2. Angular Ruhr Meetup gehalten. Aktuell unterstütze ich die Setlog GmbH bei der Verbesserung der Software Qualität und insbesondere bei der Entwicklung eines SaaS Tools, das Qualitätssicherungsprozesse (QA) im Supply Chain Management vereinfacht. Der Vortrag handelte von praktischen Erfahrungen mit TDD bei der Implementierung dieses SaaS Tools. Dieser Artikel fasst die wesentlichen Aspekte des Vortrags zusammen und beschreibt verschiedene Bestandteile eines Test-driven Design- und Entwickungsprozesses: ...

22. Oktober 2017 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Software

Agile Med Dev: Software Testing for Medical Devices

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Medical devices software engineer Julien Zaegel wrote an interesting series of articles on medical devices software testing. These articles provide an overview of as well as several useful insights on the specifics of testing medical devices software and software in general. When it comes to automated and manual software testing for medical devices there are several aspects you don't usually have to deal with when testing more common kinds of web or business applications: With medical ...

15. Oktober 2017 by Bjoern in Business, Enterprise Software, Software

JHipster: Generate And Bootstrap CRUD Apps With Spring Boot And Angular

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.The previous two posts in my series on helpful tools for developing CRUD applications were about tools that addressed very specific problem areas: API format specifications and code generation from those specifications in particular. This post will be both less about APIs and solving specific CRUD-related problems but about a tool that deals with CRUD app requirements in a comprehensive manner. This tool I'm talking about is called - not so slightly tongue-in-cheek - JHipster. Both ...

17. September 2017 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

Swagger: A Roundtrip Tool For Creating And Consuming REST APIs

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In this second part of my series on useful tools for developing CRUD applications I'd like to introduce Swagger and Swagger Codegen in particular. Introduce perhaps isn't exactly the right word because first of all Swagger is quite well known in developer circles these days. Secondly, a few months ago I wrote a blog post about how to use Swagger to generate client SDKs for REST APIs. Swagger - originally having originated at Wordnik is ...

10. September 2017 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

Annotate and validate data structures with JSON Schema

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I'd like to begin my little series of useful tools for developing CRUD applications with JSON Schema: "JSON Schema is a vocabulary that allows you to annotate and validate JSON documents." JSON Schema gives you a straightforward way to provide type information and validation to existing data structures. Say, for example you have a product instance like this (converted from your language's native object or general data structure format using a tool like Jackson for Java): [code ...

3. September 2017 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

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