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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.

Five Articles on Software Quality and Design Patterns

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.This week I'd like to point you to five articles I previously posted on this blog and from which I think that they're as relevant as they were at the time. The first three are about general software design principles, software architecture and software quality while the final two refer to specific best practices and common design patterns for Angular: Writing Disposable Code, Not Reusable Code (November 06, 2016) What Causes Over-engineering and How Can You ...

Image Compression Utility: Squoosh

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.When working with images on web applications and websites optimising images and reducing their download size is a quick win in terms of optimising page and app load times. There are plenty of image compression utilities out there - both web apps and tools for local installation. Recently, I've tried out several of those again because I wanted to reduce the overall load time of this website and according to website audit tools such as ...

17. Januar 2021 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web, Web Applikation

Tools for Working With CSS Grid Layouts and Flexbox

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.CSS Grid Layout and CSS Flexible Box Layout, commonly known as Flexbox, are powerful techniques for implementing flexible grid and column- or row-based layouts with CSS. These two techniques enable designers and web developers to accurately and fluidly position elements and content on web pages and web applications. While Flexbox (see A Complete Guide to Flexbox by CSS-Tricks) predominantly works along a single principal dimension, called the main axis or flex direction (either row or ...

22. November 2020 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Using GitHub Actions for Automating Angular Updates

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I've published quite a few Angular applications under various open source (MIT and Apache License, respectively) licenses : GDPR Transparency PivotHelper TimeSheets3 Among other responsibilities, maintaining software comes with the task of regularly checking for dependency updates and applying them to the software in question. This first and foremost involves security updates but also bug fixes and new features for the frameworks and libraries used by the application. Fortunately, Angular CLI comes with a command that allows you to ...

16. August 2020 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software

Musings of a Greybeard on the State of Software Engineering

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Two days ago software engineer and fellow blogger Tom Hombergs asked on Twitter if software development had grown harder over recent years, to which I replied: "Incoherent ramblings of a greybeard (without a beard, which is weird; these words rhyme, which is even weirder ...), who has seen at least 3 fat-client-thin-client cycles (the standard time unit in software architecture): As usual it depends. Just a few examples:" For the purpose of this blog post I ...

19. Juli 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Debugging for Mobile Browsers

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Occasionally, web developers need to debug a web app's behaviour in a specific browser on a specific device or class of devices. For desktop devices this usually isn't a problem because every modern browser nowadays provides a console, where application errors and custom console.log statements pile up. However, on mobile browsers there's usually no browser console, or browser development tools, for that matter. Analysing browser logs is still possible via vendors' development tools like Apple's ...

3. Mai 2020 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Mobile Applikationen, Software, Web Applikation

GDPR Transparency: Web App for Managing GDPR-related Activities in Your Company

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.GDPR Transparency is a web app for managing the record of processing activities (see https://gdpr-info.eu/art-30-gdpr/) and technical and organisational measures (seehttps://gdpr-info.eu/art-32-gdpr/) as required by GDPR. Since I didn't feel comfortable with the common - rather makeshift - solution of managing GDPR-related processing activities (see https://gdpr-info.eu/art-30-gdpr/) in a spreadsheet table I've created this web app called GDPR Transparency that allows you to manage that kind of information for your business: https://bjoernkw.github.io/gdpr-transparency/ The source code is available here: https://github.com/BjoernKW/gdpr-transparency GDPR ...

19. April 2020 by Bjoern in Business, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

My Curated Collection of Angular Design Patterns, Best Practices, and Other Resources

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.This is my personal, non-exhaustive collection of Angular design patterns, best practices, and otherwise useful Angular resources: General Angular Coding Style Guide Angular Cheat Sheet Top 15 Angular INDEPTH articles of 2019 JSON Schema to TypeScript declarations: Keeping Client and Server Models in Sync with Spring Data REST and Typescript Angular ng-template, ng-container and ngTemplateOutlet - The Complete Guide To Angular Templates The Missing Introduction to Angular and Modern Design Patterns Custom Validators in Angular Testing Dependency Management for Angular Unit Tests Using TestModuleMetadata Using ...

16. Februar 2020 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

API Security Best Practices by Expedited Security

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.For everyone dealing with web-based APIs, both as a provider and a consumer, web app security service supplier Expedited Security (known for Expedited SSL, among other products) has compiled a vast, extensive compendium on API security best practices. The importance of secure APIs and best practices that help has make APIs more secure and dependable can't be emphasised enough. Covering each possible attack vector and adopting every best practice out there can seem like a ...

9. Februar 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Raymond Camden @ Fronteers 2019: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar. Raymond Camden - It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times from Fronteers on Vimeo.

12. Januar 2020 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web, Web Applikation

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