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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 ...

HTML is an API

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.HTML is an API or rather it could be if we used more in the way it was intended. In a comment on this Hacker News post about Toapi, a library that makes clever use of XPath expressions in order to provide an API from existing web pages, a user wrote Now I don't want to be a downer: but we collectively seem to have forgotten that HTML as a markup language with sufficient semantic ...

20. Mai 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web, Web Applikation

Analysing the Complexity of Angular Apps

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar. Analysing an existing application if you join a project. Assessing the quality and maintainability of an application. Identifying soft spots in an application which could benefit the most from refactoring. There are numerous reasons for wanting to size up the complexity of an application. In addition to general and language-specific tools provided by IDEs and applications such as SonarLint / SonarQube it can be useful to not only take framework specifics into account but to actually make ...

13. Mai 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Stefan Judis @ RuhrJS 2017: Watch your back, Browser! You’re being observed

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At RuhrJS 2017 Stefan Judis gave an interesting talk on DOM APIs in the context of reactive programming and Observables:

29. April 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

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

Alicia Sedlock: “The Landscape of Front-End Testing” at Fronteers Conference 2017

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Alicia Sedlock - “The Landscape of Front-End Testing” at Fronteers Conference 2017: Alicia Sedlock: "The Landscape of Front-End Testing" at Fronteers Conference 2017 from Fronteers on Vimeo.

8. April 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

Alice Boxhall: “Debugging Accessibility” at Fronteers Conference 2017

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Alice Boxhall - “Debugging Accessibility” at Fronteers Conference 2017: Alice Boxhall: "Debugging Accessibility" at Fronteers Conference 2017 from Fronteers on Vimeo.

25. März 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

Umar Hansa: “A Modern Front-end Workflow” at Fronteers Conference 2017

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Umar Hansa - “A Modern Front-end Workflow” at Fronteers Conference 2017: Umar Hansa: "A Modern Front-end Workflow" at Fronteers Conference 2017 from Fronteers on Vimeo.

18. März 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

Work Culture and Enabling Software Developers to Contribute

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.This article by Marcus Blankenship tries to answer the question why programmers become disaffected with a company and its goals and ultimately turn to just wanting to code. As I wrote in an earlier article about paying for developer tools with developers, particularly in larger organisations, I frequently encounter a feeling of powerlessness and not having significant say in that organisation’s direction. Marcus is spot on in that he attributes this far too common attitude to ...

11. März 2018 by Bjoern in Business, Software

On Building Offline-Friendly Forms

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Frontend developer Max Böck some time ago posted an article on how to create offline-friendly web forms Using the navigator.onLine method for checking if the user is still connected to the Internet, localStorage and service workers Max outlines a method for alleviating an annoying problem that comes with using forms on the web, particular on mobile platforms: Losing data and having to fill in a form repetitively if you lose your Internet connection before that form ...

25. Februar 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

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