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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.

Apple, Google, Microsoft – What do they do best?

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently made some interesting points about what he thinks are the core strengths of Microsoft and its competitors Apple and Google. Though I can't really say I particularly like Microsoft products or would use them as a platform or tools for my own products there's some truth to these statements: "Whereas in our case our identity really is about empowering others to build products." "[ ... ] we want to be the tools provider, the platform provider [ ... ]" Google, ...

Airtable – A true spreadsheet / database hybrid?

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Lots of the software of the world is written in Microsoft's Excel. A spreadsheet environment lends itself particularly well to addressing everyday computing problems. Compiling tabular data, creating connections between particular pieces of that data, condensing and aggregating over a dataset's values. These are common tasks a spreadsheet solves very well with no need for complex database or application server software. A spreadsheet is a flexible tool that provides simple, responsive and instant feedback to ...

9. November 2014 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applikation

Impulse – Dynamic Physics Animations For The Mobile Web

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Impulse is a promising new JavaScript animation framework for mobile websites. The animations generated with Impulse look very smooth and natural. Very impressive work. Go check out the examples page for a first glimpse.

26. Oktober 2014 by Bjoern in Design, Mobile Applikationen, Web Applikation

Stephen Hay – Maintaining Simplicity

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Here's another interesting video of the beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2014 design conference. This is Stephen Hay talking about Maintaining Simplicity: Stephen Hay – Maintaining Simplicity – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2014 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

19. Oktober 2014 by Bjoern in Design, Web Applikation

Robin Christopherson – Technology – The Power And The Promise

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Some time ago I wrote about Robin Christopherson's talk on accessible and inclusive design at beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2014. A video of this excellent talk is now online: Robin Christopherson – Technology - The Power And The Promise – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2014 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

21. September 2014 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Automating Boilerplate Software Development

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Recently, I've come across an interesting service called Prelang and an open source project named Rails Composer that both strive to do away with a lot of the common boilerplate coding that comes with the initial setup of web apps. Interestingly, both target Ruby on Rails, a framework that prides itself in its DRY and convention over configuration approach towards programming. Hence, one wouldn't exactly expect Rails developers to be affected by tedious boilerplate programming ...

3. August 2014 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applikation

Accessible Design: Empowering People

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At the beyond tellerrand 2014 design conference, Robin Christopherson talked about inclusive and accessible design (Technology - The Power And The Promise) Robin is Head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet - a company that according to their mission statement 'exists to change the lives of disabled people by helping them to use digital technology at work, at home or in education'. Being blind himself Robin provided an insightful perspective on the difficulties people with disabilities face ...

13. Juli 2014 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

SVG is Ready For Prime Time

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At the very inspiring beyond tellerrand 2014 design conference that took place from 19 - 21 May this year in Düsseldorf (I'll write another bit or two about this conference in the next few weeks), Chris Coyier (of CSS-Tricks fame) held an interesting talk on Scalable Vector Graphics aptly titled 'SVG Is For Everybody'. In this talk Chris explained that although SVG tends to be sidelined it's quite ready for being used extensively today. To ...

6. Juli 2014 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

ZenQuery 1.0 is available today!

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.A few weeks ago I wrote about a new product I'm currently developing: ZenQuery, an Enterprise Backend as a Service. I’m pleased to announce the first public version of ZenQuery today. Since the first public announcement regarding ZenQuery roughly 30 days ago we’ve been busy working on this release. Today, you’ll be able to try out ZenQuery 1.0 yourselves on your own server and environment. I really hope you like what we’ve got for you ...

21. Mai 2014 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, Web Applikation

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

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