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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.

How-To: Instant Website Optimization for Retina Displays

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Last month I recommended an article by Reda Lemeden about designing for Retina displays. Today, as a follow-up, if you will, I'd like to suggest reading a how-to by Kyle J. Larson on website optimization for Retina displays. 'Instant Website Optimization for Retina Displays' describes the process of creating and optimizing various website elements such as images, fonts, icons and backgrounds for high-resolution displays. The author starts off with creating high-density images and continues to outline ...

Huge List of Useful Twitter Bootstrap Resources

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Bootstrap Hero has compiled a Big Badass List of Twitter Bootstrap Resources. Have a look at this useful list of tools and resources. By the way, Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!

17. März 2013 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung

Mailbox acquired by Dropbox

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.That comes as a bit of a surprise: Mailbox, the latest attempt in providing a modern, mobile-first user experience for eMail, has been acquired by Dropbox. I hadn't expected Mailbox to be acquired that quickly after their carefully orchestrated and much-hyped launch. I hope they continue working on their vision. Though I have one or two smaller gripes about missing features, there's a lot of potential in their design.

15. März 2013 by Bjoern in Mobile Applikationen

User Efficiency vs. Machine Efficiency

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Nice example on how machine efficiency doesn't necessarily equal user efficiency: For example, which of the following takes less time? Heating water in a microwave for one minute and ten seconds or heating it for one minute and eleven seconds? From the standpoint of the microwave, one minute and ten seconds is the obviously correct answer. From the standpoint of the user of the microwave, one minute and eleven seconds is faster. Why? Because in the ...

12. März 2013 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Acceptance Testing With PhantomJS and CasperJS

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.PhantomJS is a headless WebKit browser that allows you to call, test and scrape websites from the command line. In the developer's own words: PhantomJS is a headless WebKit with JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG. CasperJS is a testing and scripting framework that builds on PhantomJS. Again, in the developer's own words: CasperJS is an open source navigation scripting & testing utility ...

10. März 2013 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

Big-O Notation Explained Nicely And Concisely

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.John Cook has a post that nicely summarizes Big-O and related notations.

9. März 2013 by Bjoern in Software

Browser Details – A Service For Debugging Web Apps

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Browser Details allows you 'to see everything you need to know about your client's browser - and have that information sent directly to you'. After registering you'll get your own browser.details.com subdomain. If your clients are having problems with one of your web apps you can simply direct them to that subdomain and Browser Details will store (and mail) their environment information such as which browser they're using, the OS they're on, their screen ...

3. März 2013 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

Continous Integration with Circle or: Coming Full Circle

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I've recently tried out Circle, a hosted continuous integration service, and I'm quite thrilled about it. Registration / login works via GitHub. Once logged in, Circle lets you choose a GitHub repository and starts the first build right away. Circle claims that setup is as easy as: Sign up to Circle, Give Circle permission to access GitHub on your behalf, Click on a project repository From my experience so far this claim is absolutely correct. Configuration is completely automatic. ...

24. Februar 2013 by Bjoern in Web Applikation

Designing For Retina Displays

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Under http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/08/20/towards-retina-web/ there's a nice article about what to consider in terms of high-resolution / Retina displays when designing your next website and how to address common issues with how websites are rendered on Retina displays.

17. Februar 2013 by Bjoern in Design, Web Applikation

The World Runs On Excel

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.There's been a lot of talk lately about the importance of Excel and that Excel is everywhere. I'd even go as far as saying that most of the world in one way or another runs on Excel. Excel in my opinion is the best piece of software Microsoft has made so far (other people seem to agree with me, by the way). While Microsoft didn't invent the spreadsheet - that credit goes to VisiCalc and ...

16. Februar 2013 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

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