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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.

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Der Markt für Aufträge für IT Berater wird ganz wesentlich von so genannten Vermittlern dominiert - Unternehmen, die als Mittelsmänner zwischen Dienstleistern und Kunden fungieren. Die Gründe dafür sind vielfältig, haben unter anderem mit dem deutschen Gesetz zur "Scheinselbständigkeit", aber auch mit der unzureichenden Positionierung vieler IT Freiberufler am Markt zu tun. In letzter Zeit häufen sich kuriose Auftragsanfragen einiger dieser Vermittler: In der Projekt-Ausschreibung wird zunächst eindeutig nach Freiberuflern gesucht. Kommt es dann im weiteren Verlauf zu einem Telefongespräch mit dem ...

6. Dezember 2015 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship, Software

Web Summit 2015 in Dublin

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.A few weeks ago I've been to beautiful, vibrant Dublin for this year's Web Summit. Web Summit - self-proclaimed (and from what I've seen and experienced quite rightfully so) "world’s greatest tech fest" - is a 3-day event packed to the brim with a huge variety of talks and presentations on different tracks such as Design Summit, Enterprise Summit and Health Summit. Besides, there's a vast number of startups both pitching on a fewer ...

29. November 2015 by Bjoern in Business, Software, Web

spaCy – A fast natural language processing library

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.spaCy is a rather new library (written in Python and Cython) for performing various NLP-related tasks such as tokenization, POS-tagging and syntactic parsing. The authors claim it's faster (in some cases a lot faster) than other common solutions such as NLTK or Stanford's CoreNLP and peer reviews seem to corroborate these claims. spaCy is English-only for now. If you're working on performance-intensive NLP tasks and if that's no deal-breaker for you might want to check ...

22. November 2015 by Bjoern in Software

Rachel Nabors: Animating the User Experience

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In this talk interaction developer and cartoonist Rachel Nabors explains the six components of motion design and how to apply those in order not to make your UI just flashy (or should I say "gaudy"?) but to actually create a better user experience and make use of animation to support your website's or application's intent:

1. November 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web

Stephanie Rieger – The Emerging Global Web

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In this presentation Stephanie Rieger talks about how the web is accessed and used in emerging economies in Africa and Asia and why mobile plays a dominant role in developing countries: Stephanie Rieger – The Emerging Global Web – beyond tellerrand DÜSSELDORF 2015 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo. From a developed economy point of view this is very intriguing. Though mobile devices already dominate the market in developed economies and mobile-first is the dominant design ...

25. Oktober 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Web, Web Applikation

Toby Shapshak: You don’t need an app for that

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In a 2013 TED talk South African writer Toby Shapshak talks about innovation out of necessity and how entrepreneurs in Africa are solving real-world problems for both their own continent and the world as a whole:

11. Oktober 2015 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Mobile Applikationen, Web

Open-sourcing some of my project code: Freshcard and MemoEasy

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Modern web development and software development in general for that matter wouldn't be possible without FOSS: free open source software. Whether it's web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, frontend frameworks like AngularJS or enterprise toolkits as for instance Spring, open source software is the solid foundation most modern software is built upon. It's quite likely the technology-fuelled growth we've seen for the last decades wouldn't have been possible if it hadn't been for open ...

4. Oktober 2015 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Jeremy Keith – Enhance!

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Much in line with the talk about advancing the web without breaking it in his talk at beyond tellerrand this year Jeremy Keith argues for the benefits of starting with simple solutions to the problem at hand and building upon a solid foundation instead of giving in to the temptation starting out with ever more complex layers upon layers of complex tools and frameworks. Jeremy advocates progressive enhancement, that is making content accessible to every ...

27. September 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Web, Web Applikation

Christian Heilmann – Advancing the web without breaking it?

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Web development today is characterized by a constant, rapid flow of new frameworks, CSS preprocessors, task runners, package managers, asset pipelines ... Angular, Ember.js, Backbone, React, Flux, Grunt, Gulp. Every week or so it seems there's a new JavaScript framework that does everything better than everything else before. We need to jump ship ever more frequently if we want to keep up and stay on the bleeding edge. There's constant bickering about which framework ...

20. September 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Mobile Applikationen, Web, Web Applikation

PPK – The Plural of Chromium is Chromia

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.He's the ultimate browser nerd. Peter-Paul Koch - commonly referred to as PPK - tests browsers and browser compatibilities so we don't have to. On his website QuirksMode he publishes articles and browser compatibility tables for each and every HTML5, CSS and JavaScript feature in the West. In his recent talk at beyond tellerrand he talked specifically about the mobile web and mobile web browsers in particular. Although the most dominant mobile platforms Android and ...

13. September 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web, Web Applikation

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