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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.

Java Design Patterns

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Based on Christopher Alexander's pattern language, design patterns in software allow us to apply reusable patterns to common use cases and scenarios in software development instead of having to reinvent the proverbial wheel each time we're facing similar problems. If you'd like to brush up on design patterns in the context of Java as a programming language, Java Design Patterns has you covered. Java Design Patterns is a website "showcasing Java-based design patterns, principles, and ...

Code Review Checklist and Tool Recommendations

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Quite some time ago, both the code quality tool provider Codacy and the software architect Surender Reddy Gutha individually published useful resources on how to do effective code reviews and which tools to use for those: Code Review Checklist – To Perform Effective Code Reviews List of tools for code review engineers While unfortunately the two Pull Panda tools and ReadyforReview from the latter list are no longer available, the remaining tools as well as the checklist ...

12. März 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Schematic – A Database Management UI for Spring Boot

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Out of my own need for an embedded database management tool for Spring Boot web applications, similar to the H2 Console, but for non-embedded databases, I've created Schematic - a database management UI for Spring Boot. Specifically, for the Workshops.DE Spring Boot course, some time ago we had decided to replace a development-time, embedded H2 database (and the console application that comes with it) with a more realistic (in that it brings our code closer ...

5. März 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Just – A Command Line Toolkit for Spring Boot Applications

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In December last year, freelance software consultant Maciej Walkowiak, who also is the lead developer of Spring Cloud AWS, released just, a command-line toolkit for developing Spring Boot applications. I've been using just since then and I'm extremely happy with this tool and how it has improved my development experience with Spring Boot. Although Spring Boot already provides a more than decent developer experience - especially when it comes to getting up and running quickly and ...

19. Februar 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Rendering on the Web

How to Optimize Your Web Rendering PerformanceWeb rendering performance is an important factor in providing a good user experience. Poor performance can lead to slow page loading times, which can cause users to abandon a website. Optimizing web rendering performance can help ensure that users have a positive experience when visiting a website. The first step in optimizing web rendering performance is to reduce the size of the page. This can be done by compressing images, minifying HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and ...

12. Februar 2023 by Bjoern in Software, Web, Web Applikation

Faster Maven Builds With mvnd – A Maven Daemon

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Maven is a popular build tool for Java projects. It allows developers to easily manage dependencies, build and test their code, and package it for distribution. However, one downside of Maven is that it can be slow to start up, especially on large projects. This is where the Maven Daemon, or mvnd, comes in. mvnd is a tool that allows Maven to run in the background as a daemon process, rather than as a one-off ...

5. Februar 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Inheriting Properties for Lombok @Builders and JPA Entities

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Lombok is one of those helpful developer tools for the Java language ecosystem that streamline (or even do away with entirely) the more tedious and mundane tasks in software development. Lombok in particular vastly reduces the boilerplate code Java developers have to write by providing annotations that have code for common structures and patterns such as constructors, getters and setters, and builders automatically generated. While tremendously helpful, sometimes edge cases can occur when working with ...

22. Januar 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Bootify: Rapid Prototyping for Spring Boot

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Bootify is a rapid prototyping and code generation tool for Spring Boot that aims at improving developer experience for when getting started with a new Spring Boot application. While of course there is Spring Initializr, which serves a similar purpose, Bootify not just generates a minimal Spring Boot application with the desired dependencies but, on top of that and amongst other features, also adds database schema and model generation, REST API and CRUD capabilities, and ...

1. Januar 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

Christopher Alexander – Patterns in Architecture

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Sadly, a few days ago, seminal architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander passed away. Having coined the term "pattern language" Christopher Alexander is considered the father of the pattern language movement. It is this term we as software engineers - oftentimes quite casually - refer to when we're talking about design patterns. In 1996, Christopher Alexander gave this compelling talk at the 1996 ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA): In this talk, Alexander ...

27. März 2022 by Bjoern in Software

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