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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.

Stratospheric – In Orbit Now: Content-complete Version 1.0

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Last week, we released version 1.0 of our eBook "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS"! We hope you like this now content-complete release version of Stratospheric. Thanks to everyone who showed their trust in this project during its early stages! Here are some key facts about this project and the application we built as part of the book: 445 pages eBook with practical hands-on advice for running production-ready Spring Boot applications on ...

8. August 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

A Catalogue of Design Patterns

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Recently, I came across this well-structured as well as visually appealing catalogue of software design patterns on Refactoring.Guru. The subject of design patterns can be a somewhat dry, unwieldy one. Hence, using visuals and metaphors can come in handy when explaining both the general idea behind design patterns and specific patterns alongside with their use cases. Refactoring.Guru does a great job not only at explaining the origin and purpose of and rationale behind design patterns and ...

1. August 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Towards More Considerate and More Collaborative Code Reviews

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Software engineer Dan Goslen recently published an article on how he's going to change his approach to code reviews. The most widely used organizational pattern for conducting code reviews probably is the pull request, also called merge request. This particular pattern and the tools source code management systems provides us with to support this pattern lend themselves to a review strategy that focuses on commenting on code and minute details rather than the big picture ...

18. Juli 2021 by Bjoern in Software

A Collection of for a Improving the UX of Signup and Login Workflows

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Independent UX designer Erik D. Kennedy recently published an article with 15 Tips for Better Signup / Login UX on Learn UI Design - a website through which he provides acclaimed courses on both UI and UX design. The article lists general suggestions such as autofocusing on the first field (i.e. the username, or rather: email, field), immediately validating form values, or making input labels clickable, as well as more specific - but no less expedient - ...

11. Juli 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Second-order Affordances: Design & Quantum Superposition

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.A few years ago, having read a thought-provoking article by Csongor Bartus I wrote about design & quantum superposition. The main idea behind this article, and my interpretation, is that - similar to a particle, which exists in a state of quantum superposition - a design doesn't exist by itself but can only ever be realised in a given context and at a specific moment through observation by a user and possibly a ...

27. Juni 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web, Web Applikation

A Concise Overview of Java’s Instant, LocalDateTime, ZonedDateTime and When to Use Which

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.The authoritative answer to a question on Stack Overflow on the difference between Instant and LocalDateTime covers various classes from the Java 8 Date/Time API and how those are actually meant to be used. Names such as LocalDateTime can be misleading in that they suggest a specific locale or locality rather than any locality (as that name is intended). This, in turn, can give rise to problems with inaccurate date and time values if timezones ...

20. Juni 2021 by Bjoern in Software

Automating Processes: Meeting Notes

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.One of the key benefits of business software, or as a matter of fact, any software, is automation of tedious, repetitive tasks. One of the three great virtues of a programmer according to Perl creator Larry Wall is laziness as defined in: "The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful and document what you wrote so ...

13. Juni 2021 by Bjoern in Business, Software

Keeping a Record of Software Architecture Decisions

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.The need for asynchronous communication in organisations has become particularly obvious since 2020, when remote work and distributed work environments rapidly became the default setting for knowledge workers. Asynchronous communication essentially means that instead of exclusively communicating objectives, goals and the way by which to achieve them in-person (i.e. synchronously with everyone involved present at the same time - whether on-site or in a virtual space such as Slack or Zoom) we try and keep ...

6. Juni 2021 by Bjoern in 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

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