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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.

WordPress Child Themes

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.A few days ago I read a very useful tip regarding customizing WordPress themes and why you should use child themes for that. In short, child themes allow you to extend and customize existing WordPress themes without compromising the ability to update the original theme. If instead you directly customized a theme your changes would be lost once you install an update (or have that update installed automatically).

Collaborating with GitHub and Dropbox

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Git and GitHub are awesome tools for developers. Version control systems have been used for quite some time and for good reasons. Git, its distributed approach and GitHub's social coding features like pull requests for instance have introduced a whole new dimension to collaborative software development. However, when working with non-coders (e.g. graphic designers) on projects using Git for managing source files like CSS and JavaScript assets that have to be touched by both developers ...

23. Dezember 2012 by Bjoern in Software

Automatic Updates for WordPress

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I'd like to introduce you (or rather the WordPress users amongst you) to one of the lesser known gems for WordPress - the Automatic Updater plugin. This plugin automatically updates your WordPress core installation as well as installed plugins and themes, which is a boon, especially if you have to maintain several WordPress installations.

20. Dezember 2012 by Bjoern in Web, Web Applikation

Numbers: A Mathematics Toolkit For node.js / JavaScript

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Numbers is an advanced mathematics toolkit for JavaScript and Node.js developed by Steve Kaliski, @sjkaliski: Numbers provides a comprehensive set of mathematical tools that currently are not offered in JavaScript. These tools include: Basic calculations Calculus Matrix Operations Prime Numbers Statistics Very interesting stuff.

18. Dezember 2012 by Bjoern in Web Applikation

Bauhaus and Web Design

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.The other day I've read this somewhat older yet still relevant article by Simon Collision: Bauhaus Ideology and the Future of Web Design. In a stream of thought kind of way it deals with the main tenets of the Bauhaus school of thought and how those relate to modern and future web design. It draws upon Bauhaus ideas such as "form follows function", simplicity and the unification of art, craft, and technology - most of ...

16. Dezember 2012 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web

Sauce Labs – Cross Browser Testing

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Cross browser testing is a notoriously cumbersome problem. When developing web applications or websites any decent web developer or designer will try to test her work not only on her local machine, browser and operating system combination but will strive to cover as many reasonable environments that hold a certain market share as possible. Provisioning all those configurations with every possible combination of Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer and OSX, Windows, Linux, Android and ...

12. Dezember 2012 by Bjoern in Web Applikation

Virtues of a Programmer

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar."We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris." - Larry Wall, Programming Perl (1st edition), O'Reilly Media Recently, I've come across those remarkable words by Larry Wall, creator of Perl, again. When I first read them many years ago they made quite some impression on me. I think those virtues subsume pretty well what it means to be a good programmer. Besides, I just like Larry ...

9. Dezember 2012 by Bjoern in Software

Publishing Markt für Tablets ist reif für Veränderungen

English version Diese Woche gab es zwei interessante Beiträge auf Signal vs. Noise, Blog von 37signal: Tablets are waiting for their Movable Type Publishers shouldn't be app developers Beide Beiträge behandeln Schwierigkeiten beim Veröffentlichen von Magazinen oder Zeitungen für Tablets wie das iPad. Wenn Herausgeber solche Inhalte fürs iPad und andere Tablets veröffentlichen wollen, so läuft dies aktuell meist so, dass dafür eigene Apps entwickelt werden, die dann die eigentlichen Inhalte darstellen. Weil nun Herausgeber sich meist nicht sonderlich gut mit Softwareentwicklung auskennen, hat ...

2. Dezember 2012 by Bjoern in Business, Mobile Applikationen, Web, Web Applikation

Neue Publishing Tools

In letzter Zeit habe ich einige interessante neue Publishing Tools gefunden: ShareLaTeX erlaubt das kollaborative Bearbeiten von LaTeX Dokumenten: https://www.sharelatex.com Anthologize ist ein WordPress Plugin, mit dem man den Inhalt eines WordPress Blogs als eBook exportieren kann: http://anthologize.org Docverter ist eine Open Source Server Software, mit der man verschiedene Markup Format wie HTML, Markdown oder LaTeX in Print Publishing Formate wie PDF oder EPUB konvertieren kann: http://www.docverter.com, Source Code: https://github.com/docverter/docverter Diese Tools dürften spannend für Leute sein, die Online Content produzieren und diesen gerne auch ...

24. November 2012 by Bjoern in Web Applikation

WebSphere Blues

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Lately, I've been doing a lot of work for a customer involving deployment and configuration of applications on IBM WebSphere Application Server. While I really dislike being the grumpy developer I just have to say that WebSphere Application Server - at least till version 6, which is the one I'm working on - sucks beyond measure. I can hardly think of any piece of software as ill-conceived, convoluted and error-prone as this one. Usually, Java applications live up to SUN's "Write once, run ...

22. November 2012 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software

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