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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.

Spotified

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.As innovative apps and business models go on a personal level Spotify is one of those innovations that in recent years not only provided a lot of value to me but also quite fundamentally changed an important aspect of my life: Listening to music. I happen to be a music buff with a penchant for Progressive Rock, Power Metal alongside folk metal / medieval stuff, computer games themes and occasionally interesting, novel pop music. Music streaming ...

A Comprehensive Website Checklist

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Under http://www.boxuk.com/upload/2014/02/Relaunched-Ultimate-Website-Checklist-2.0.pdf Box UK provides a very useful checklist for website launches and updates. Typography, testing, SEO, security: This checklist has you covered for all those important and seemingly trivial aspects to keep in mind when launching and maintaining a website.

11. Mai 2014 by Bjoern in Business, Web Applikation

ZenQuery: From Idea To Product In 2 Weeks

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Earlier this week I've launched a new product called ZenQuery. In a nutshell, ZenQuery is an application that creates an instant REST API (with JSON, XML and CSV formats) for SQL queries. This allows you to easily access any kind of data from your database without having to deal with technical details such as database drivers, connections, ORM or caching. A typical use case is an enterprise company which for example wants to create a new ...

27. April 2014 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, Web Applikation

Superhero.js

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Creating, testing and maintaining a large JavaScript code base is not easy — especially since great resources on how to do this are hard to find. This page is a collection of the best articles, videos and presentations we've found on the topic. Superhero.js is a useful and comprehensive list of articles about developing, testing and maintaining JavaScript applications. It deals with fundamentals of the JavaScript language, best practices and broaches subjects such as testing, ...

20. April 2014 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Web, Web Applikation

Surrounded By Idiots?

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.This week a video called 'The Expert' (based the short story "The Meeting" by Alexey Berezin) was spread by a CNET article aptly titled 'This is how an engineer feels when he's surrounded by idiots': I think most engineers can relate to this situation. However, the real question remains: Why do engineers time and time again find themselves in such Dilbertesque situations. Is it really because we're surrounded by idiots, nitwits and PHBs? Perhaps, but this ...

6. April 2014 by Bjoern in Business, Enterprise Software, Software

Self Licking Ice Cream Cones

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Chris Granger of LightTable fame has posted an insightful article on how better programming tools might come about. He argues that 'programming should be about solving problems' and that ideally 'programming is our way of encoding thought such that the computer can help us with it' but along the way we - as programmers - somehow lost these notions and in our daily work we predominantly deal with marginal problems, problems which are incidental to ...

30. März 2014 by Bjoern in Software

Hemingway: Readibility Scores And Smart Suggestions On Style

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Hemingway is an interesting new web app that not only assigns a score to the readability of your text but also makes smart suggestions regarding how to simplify your text in order to make it more understandable. Having worked on readability algorithms before I think this is a well-designed take on improving the usefulness of readability scores. Knowing that your text scores high or low in terms of readability only gets you so far. Hemingway additionally ...

16. März 2014 by Bjoern in Software

Resources For SaaS Businesses And Enterprise App Developers

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.SaaS Club is a new website that keeps track of relevant resources for SaaS businesses and developers. These resources are organized both in categories such as 'product', 'metrics' and 'sales' and according to their target audience, e.g. 'developers & designers' or 'managers & product people'. Enterprise App Developer Atlas is an 'interactive map of the developer journey', i.e. it's a catalogue of tools for enterprise web app development. Tools are organized according to product phases ...

9. März 2014 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Applikationen, Web Applikation

Screw paper!

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.As a sort of follow-up to my post on bizarre, backward paper-based processes I recently doubled down on removing my remaining dependencies on paper and paper-based processes. With an reinvigorated passion for achieving "The Paperless Office ™" I did the following: scan all documents and invoices with PDFScanner (for macOS) store all scanned documents in Evernote sign documents with DocuSign have Zapier automatically store all invoices that arrived digitally via eMail in Evernote as well rigorously throw away everything ...

2. März 2014 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Software, Web, Web Applikation

Houdini – Automatically Generated Web App Tests

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Houdini is was a new SaaS product - currently in private beta - that "watches you using your site and automatically generates end to end tests that run continuously in the cloud". After having added some JavaScript code to your web app Houdini will follow and record your clicks, inputs and actions. These recordings are then used for automatically generating tests that run continuously. So, if a code change breaks your app's front end behaviour ...

2. Februar 2014 by Bjoern in Web Applikation

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