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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.

ng-admin: Create admin panels from REST APIs

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.ng-admin is a helpful AngularJS UI component that automatically creates an admin user interface for RESTful APIs. Such a component is particularly useful for instance with back end applications in enterprise contexts because it allows you to quickly implement and iterate basic user interfaces based on your current model and its API.

5. Juli 2015 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

Modern SQL (with PostgreSQL)

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.SQL expert Markus Winand some time ago posted an insightful presentation on Modern SQL (mostly PostgreSQL-focussed) at SlideShare. The 116 slides contain plenty of modern SQL idioms you likely haven't used before. Even if you're an experienced SQL developer the presentation is still worth checking out.

28. Juni 2015 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

UX Time: Responsive Tables and Smoothly Scrolling Through Large Datasets

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Today I'd like to introduce two nifty and very useful tools and techniques for better visualizing tabular data on the Web: Responsive Tables in Pure CSS: This technique (code available here) makes clever use of :before and :after pseudo elements in order to nicely display responsive HTML tables on mobile devices (or any device with a smaller screen size for that matter) without any changes to the HTML code or having to resort to JavaScript. Clusterize.js, ...

17. Mai 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

JHipster: A Spring / AngularJS App Generator

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.You're a boring, hoary Java developer but secretly always wanted to belong to that hip JavaScript-Single-Page-Application crowd? Well, with JHipster now you can! On a more serious note, JHipster is a Yeoman generator that lets you bootstrap integrated Java (for the back-end server stuff) / AngularJS (for everything front-end and UI) web apps. JHipster makes use of proven technologies such as: Grunt Bower AngularJS Maven Spring Boot Spring Web MVC The project's goal is to provide the means for easily creating a ...

3. Mai 2015 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

SheetJS – Parse And Manipulate Excel Spreadsheets In The Browser

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.SheetJS (source code available on GitHub) is an extremely useful JavaScript library that enables you to have Microsoft Excel spreadsheets parsed directly in the browser without any backend interaction necessary. What makes SheetJS even more impressive is the ability to query spreadsheets in-place with an SQLite-compatible SQL language called WebSQL. Check out the example on the website to see how awesome this is. Together with a grid component such as Handsontable (source code) SheetJS allows for ...

19. April 2015 by Bjoern in Web Applikation

favico.js – Dynamic Content For Your Favicon

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.favico.js (source code on GitHub) is an interesting and possibly quite useful library that makes it possible to show dynamic, animated content in your web app's favicon. While it allows you to display all sorts of visual next to the browser's address bar - such as videos or even web cams live streams - the most useful use case favico.js lends itself to probably is displaying badges and notifications. favico.js provides animations, colour customization and custom ...

12. April 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web Applikation

GoodUI Datastories

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.GoodUI Datastories is a new service that promises to provide companies with tried and tested UI concepts. Not every company has the time, resources and sheer number of users required to do proper A/B testing. GoodUI Datastories tries to alleviate this problem by sharing ideas and UX patterns that have been proven to work for others, e.g.: Try Smaller Commitments instead of one big one. The service allows users to submit their ideas including screenshots and ...

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

UX Check: Identify Usability Issues On Your Website

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Recently, I came across UX Check, a Google Chrome extension that allows you to annotate usability issues according to Nielsen's ten heuristic usability evaluations. If you're dealing with website and web app usability in any way UX Check will be a useful tool and is worth checking out.

8. Februar 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

FormatJS: Localize dates and numbers

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Internationalization and localization still is a somewhat difficult problem in software development. FormatJS is a collection of JavaScript libraries that addresses a part of this problem by formatting dates and numbers according to a selected locale. It makes clever use of pluralization and natural language patterns so the output strings read like a natural language utterance instead of a computer-generated string, for example it generates these outputs for 0, 1 and 1,000 items, respectively: "Annie took ...

28. Dezember 2014 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applikation

ZenQuery is now open source

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Today I made ZenQuery available as open source (under the Apache License). ZenQuery is an 'Enterprise Backend as a Service' and allows you to easily access databases through a REST API without any programming knowledge required. Get SQL result sets as JSON, XML or CSV data, which can easily be processed by tools such as MS Excel or in your own applications. ZenQuery provides you with an instant REST API for your SQL queries. Anything that ...

20. Dezember 2014 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

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