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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.

Dave Shea: A Brief History of Web Design

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2015 David Shea, creator of the seminal website CSS Zen Garden gave a talk about the history of web design. David Shea takes us back on a - somewhat nostalgic - journey 25 years back to remind us about nigh forgotten websites and services (does anybody still remember Hotmail and GeoCities?). There are lessons to be learned from those early incarnations of web design and mistakes to be avoided. Moreover, and ...

ng-admin: Create admin panels from REST APIs

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.ng-admin is a helpful AngularJS UI component that automatically creates an admin user interface for RESTful APIs. Such a component is particularly useful for instance with back end applications in enterprise contexts because it allows you to quickly implement and iterate basic user interfaces based on your current model and its API.

5. Juli 2015 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

UX Time: Responsive Tables and Smoothly Scrolling Through Large Datasets

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Today I'd like to introduce two nifty and very useful tools and techniques for better visualizing tabular data on the Web: Responsive Tables in Pure CSS: This technique (code available here) makes clever use of :before and :after pseudo elements in order to nicely display responsive HTML tables on mobile devices (or any device with a smaller screen size for that matter) without any changes to the HTML code or having to resort to JavaScript. Clusterize.js, ...

17. Mai 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

JHipster: A Spring / AngularJS App Generator

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.You're a boring, hoary Java developer but secretly always wanted to belong to that hip JavaScript-Single-Page-Application crowd? Well, with JHipster now you can! On a more serious note, JHipster is a Yeoman generator that lets you bootstrap integrated Java (for the back-end server stuff) / AngularJS (for everything front-end and UI) web apps. JHipster makes use of proven technologies such as: Grunt Bower AngularJS Maven Spring Boot Spring Web MVC The project's goal is to provide the means for easily creating a ...

3. Mai 2015 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

Some Free Design Resources

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Pexels (a free stock photo site) have published a small but useful list of free design resources on their blog. From typography, icons and colour palettes to free design tools such as GIMP or Inkscape, the list is far from comprehensive but contains helpful stuff nevertheless.

26. April 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung

GoodUI Datastories

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.GoodUI Datastories is a new service that promises to provide companies with tried and tested UI concepts. Not every company has the time, resources and sheer number of users required to do proper A/B testing. GoodUI Datastories tries to alleviate this problem by sharing ideas and UX patterns that have been proven to work for others, e.g.: Try Smaller Commitments instead of one big one. The service allows users to submit their ideas including screenshots and ...

1. März 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web, Web Applikation

UX Check: Identify Usability Issues On Your Website

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Recently, I came across UX Check, a Google Chrome extension that allows you to annotate usability issues according to Nielsen's ten heuristic usability evaluations. If you're dealing with website and web app usability in any way UX Check will be a useful tool and is worth checking out.

8. Februar 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

ZenQuery is now open source

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Today I made ZenQuery available as open source (under the Apache License). ZenQuery is an 'Enterprise Backend as a Service' and allows you to easily access databases through a REST API without any programming knowledge required. Get SQL result sets as JSON, XML or CSV data, which can easily be processed by tools such as MS Excel or in your own applications. ZenQuery provides you with an instant REST API for your SQL queries. Anything that ...

20. Dezember 2014 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Robin Christopherson – Technology – The Power And The Promise

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Some time ago I wrote about Robin Christopherson's talk on accessible and inclusive design at beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2014. A video of this excellent talk is now online: Robin Christopherson – Technology - The Power And The Promise – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2014 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

21. September 2014 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Accessible Design: Empowering People

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At the beyond tellerrand 2014 design conference, Robin Christopherson talked about inclusive and accessible design (Technology - The Power And The Promise) Robin is Head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet - a company that according to their mission statement 'exists to change the lives of disabled people by helping them to use digital technology at work, at home or in education'. Being blind himself Robin provided an insightful perspective on the difficulties people with disabilities face ...

13. Juli 2014 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

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