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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.

Spring Batch Resources: Batch Processing, ETL And Data Conversion

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.ETL (extract, transform, load) processes, data processing, exporting data from one business system (ERP, CRM, accounting etc.) and importing it into another are common requirements in enterprise IT. So much so that the ability to export and import data often is the key feature of enterprise software. Spring Batch is a toolkit in the context of the widely used Spring framework that allows you to define and run batch jobs and data processing pipelines. Spring ...

Interactive Flowcharts with code2flow

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Visualisation often helps immensely when trying to understand complex systems and interactions. Visualising these systems and their behaviour can be a daunting task though: Covering each and every path a workflow or process might take can be quite arduous. In many cases it's not even possible to comprehensively describe a system that has not yet been implemented. Edge cases frequently only tend to surface once a software has been tried out under real conditions. Software in ...

18. Dezember 2016 by Bjoern in Software

Matt Ranney @ GOTO 2016: What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At the GOTO Chicago 2016 enterprise software conference Matt Ranney, chief systems architect at Uber and co-founder of Voxer gave a presentation on what they learned from adopting microservices on a massive scale at Uber: "To Keep up with Uber's growth, we've embraced microservices in a big way. This has led to an explosion of new services, crossing over 1,000 production services in early March 2016. Along the way we've learned a lot [ ... ...

11. Dezember 2016 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

A Collection Of Common UX Myths

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.UX Myths is website on common UX misconceptions like "The homepage is your most important page", "You are like your users" or "Icons enhance usability". The authors shed light on where those myths come from, why they're wrong and what can be done to improve your design process in each case.

4. Dezember 2016 by Bjoern in Design, Software

JSCity – Code Complexity Visualization For JavaScript Codebases

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.JSCity is a tool for visualising JavaScript source code complexity that uses the CodeCity metaphor. This approach makes use of the building blocks of modern cities for visualising the building blocks of software. Since in JavaScript functional programming is the predominant programming paradigm JSCity represents code artefacts like this: folders are districts files are sub-districts functions are buildings inner functions are represented as buildings on the top of their nested function / building This for example is the visualisation of ...

27. November 2016 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

The State Of JavaScript 2016: A Survey

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.A recent survey by Sacha Greif gives a comprehensive overview of the current state of the JavaScript world. Front-end, full-stack, testing, mobile: If you're working with JavaScript in any way this survey has you covered! It gives you a great overview of what's in use right now and what might be in the near future. The survey will be done annually. So, it should be possible to see where the JavaScript world is headed and which ...

13. November 2016 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Writing Disposable Code, Not Reusable Code

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In an article about common software over-engineering mistakes Subhas Dandapani provides a lot of useful insights on why software often is over-engineered - sometimes to the extent it becomes unmaintainable. From my experience, the by far most frequent cause of over-engineered and overly complex software is engineers trying to anticipate requirements and potential future use cases. Everything has to be abstract in order to accommodate any possible use case business might come up with. Repetition ...

6. November 2016 by Bjoern in Software

UI Movement

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.UI Movement is a website that showcases user interface designs on a daily basis as an inspiration for your own designs. The designs itself are mostly sourced from Dribbble - the show and tell site for designers. Originally just a newsletter in the vein of an MVP, UI Movement has developed into a fully-fledged website with designs organised in categories such as commerce, dashboard or menu.

23. Oktober 2016 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Mockito 2 now available

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Last week version 2.1.0 of the Mockito testing framework for Java has been released. For more information on this latest iteration check out this page. As the name suggests, Mockito allows you to mock object behaviour during unit tests. When writing unit tests you only want to test a particular unit's behaviour (hence the name). Depending on the programming language used such a unit might be a function, a procedure or - most commonly ...

16. Oktober 2016 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Anti-patterns: Rewriting Software

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.It's one of those fallacious patterns in software development that though well-known to cause trouble without creating any significant benefit unfortunately ever seems to truly go away: The Software Rewrite. In general, software developers tend to not particularly like working on old - or legacy - code, especially if it's not been written by themselves or if they feel that due to aspects like time and budget constraints they didn't have the opportunity to get ...

9. Oktober 2016 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship, Software

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