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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.

Starting A Software Consulting Business

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Recently, I've been asked about tips for starting a software consulting business. Some of those apply to that developer's specific environment but most are general enough to be applicable to any kind of software consulting business anywhere so I think they're worth sharing: First, you'd need to consider which market you'd like to address because this will decide how you acquire customers. Domestic only? Overseas / remote? I'd very much suggest the latter because in ...

Creative Use Of Symbol Fonts: Time Display

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In his article The Era of Symbol Fonts, Brian Suda refers to Timepiece Rounded, an OpenType font that makes use of the symbol font concept and specifically ligatures to display clock hands! For instance, a time string such as "19:52:45" will be displayed as follows: The source code for this contains merely text and and a bit of CSS styling: <div class="timepiece missswiss"><span class="clock" id="missswiss" style="display: block; font-size: 226px;">19:52:45</span></div> Pretty awesome!

21. April 2013 by Bjoern in Design, Web Applikation

BromBone – Headless Browser As A Service

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.A few weeks ago I wrote about PhantomJS, CasperJS and how those WebKit-based tools help with web app testing. While running your own PhantomJS instance should work alright in most cases, installing, optimizing and maintaining yet another software package on all of your dev machines and continuous integration servers adds more friction to your development process. Hence, I was wondering if there's a hosted PhantomJS service. In fact, there is: BromBone - a 'headless browser ...

7. April 2013 by Bjoern in Web Applikation

A Few Notes On Responsive Design

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I've been doing quite a bit of work involving responsive web design lately, which is why I thought I'd share a few useful resources I came across. First, there's an article by Luke Wroblewski about the importance of considering mobile devices first for websites and web applications. Ethan Marcotte describes foundations and some techniques of responsive web design. An article by James Young deals with 'the top responsive web design problems and how to avoid them' Brad Frost ...

31. März 2013 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Mobile Applikationen

“Developers Just Can’t Design!”

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Time and time again I hear statements such as: Developers just can't design! I think this point of view is mistaken. Not only does it state that software developers have a somewhat innate inaptitude for design but to some extent it also implies that for developers design is something not worth comprehending. „Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." There's a huge misunderstanding in this mindset: Design is not ...

24. März 2013 by Bjoern in Design, Software

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 ...

20. März 2013 by Bjoern in Design, Web Applikation

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

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