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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.

Sara Harkousse @ RuhrJS 2017 – Web Components: It’s all rainbows and unicorns! Is it?

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At RuhrJS 2017 Sara Harkousse gave a talk on web components and custom elements in particular. In this talk she gives a hands-on introduction on how to get started with custom elements:

10. Dezember 2017 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Paying for Developer Tools

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Recently, a user named amerkhalid wrote this on Hacker News (commenting on a question about the market for developer tools): Agreed. Developers are hard bunch to sell to. We go out of our way to find free tools and almost look down on people who use decent IDEs or other tools. One example, when I finally got legit license for Sublime Text, all of my friends made fun of me for paying for a free ...

3. Dezember 2017 by Bjoern in Business, Software

12 Factors for Building Quality Web Applications

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.When considering the different aspects that potentially contribute to (or detract from, mark you ...) quality, reliability and maintainability of a web application I always like to come back to the Twelve-Factor App. Originally created by Adam Wiggins in 2011 the Twelve-Factor App is a highly useful design framework for both creating new web apps and measuring and improving the quality of existing applications. This framework allows you to create and maintain long-term viable applications ...

26. November 2017 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applikation

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

Web Apps and Websites: Documents and Applications

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Today, when starting development of a new website using a pattern that just a few years ago used to be called single-page application (SPA) not only seems to be the new default but even like the only way of creating stuff for the web. Clearly though not all content for the web is created equal: On one side of the spectrum we have (mostly) static documents identified by URIs and returned by URLs. Most websites ...

12. November 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web Applikation

William Hertling on AI Risks

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.William Hertling, author of the Singularity Series books and the recent techno-crime thriller Kill Process earlier this year shared a few of his thoughts regarding artificial (general) intelligence (AI / AGI) and the hazards as well as ethical ramifications and quandaries that the emergence of AI / AGI might give rise to. In Ten Musings on AI Risks William broaches both pragmatic subjects such as risk mitigation and deeper moral questions. In his (and my ...

5. November 2017 by Bjoern in Ideen, Software

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

Front-end / back-end isn’t a useful distinction

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Answering a Hacker News Ask HN titled "Why companies look for “full stack” developers instead of specialists?" I wrote this: Front-end / back-end isn't a particularly useful distinction in my opinion. Differentiating between those 2 is just another way of creating information silos. I'm old enough to have experienced at least 2 full thin-client-fat-client cycles and I'm certain the current one won't be the last (at least it seems to have been a recurring pattern since ...

8. Oktober 2017 by Bjoern in Business, Software

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