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I’m an independent IT consultant and entrepreneur in the Internet and software business. I’m interested in design, enterprise applications, web apps and SaaS products. I design and develop business solutions and applications. I help companies in terms of software quality and knowledge transfer, e.g. with Angular and Spring Boot.

Kim Crayton @ RuhrJS 2017 – What is Community Engineering?

At RuhrJS 2017 Kim Crayton gave this energetic and hopeful as well as insightful talk on community engineering in terms of diversity and how diversity benefits both communities and companies from an economic point of view:

Alicia Sedlock: “The Landscape of Front-End Testing” at Fronteers Conference 2017

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Sunday April 8th, 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Web Applications

Ashley Bischoff: “1Up Your Writing with Plain Language” at Fronteers Conference 2017

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Sunday April 1st, 2018 by Bjoern in Web

Alice Boxhall: “Debugging Accessibility” at Fronteers Conference 2017

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Sunday March 25th, 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Web Applications

Umar Hansa: “A Modern Front-end Workflow” at Fronteers Conference 2017

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Sunday March 18th, 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Web Applications

Work Culture and Enabling Software Developers to Contribute

This article by Marcus Blankenship tries to answer the question why programmers become disaffected with a company and its goals and ultimately turn to just wanting to code. As I wrote in an earlier article about paying for developer tools with developers, particularly in larger organisations, I frequently encounter a feeling of powerlessness and not having significant say in that organisation’s direction. Marcus is spot on in that he attributes this far too common attitude to an often dysfunctional work culture that doesn't ...

Sunday March 11th, 2018 by Bjoern in Business, Software

One Cannot Not Design

One cannot not communicate. - Paul Watzlawick Philosopher and communication theorist Paul Watzlawick famously stated as one of his five axioms of group homoeostasis (the ability of a system to maintain its current state or equilibrium) that "one cannot not communicate", meaning that it's impossible to completely avoid communication. Even the act of intentionally not communicating - by staying silent for example - is an act of communication. In the case of silence depending on the communication situation this could be interpreted is ...

Sunday March 4th, 2018 by Bjoern in Design

On Building Offline-Friendly Forms

Frontend developer Max Böck some time ago posted an article on how to create offline-friendly web forms Using the navigator.onLine method for checking if the user is still connected to the Internet, localStorage and service workers Max outlines a method for alleviating an annoying problem that comes with using forms on the web, particular on mobile platforms: Losing data and having to fill in a form repetitively if you lose your Internet connection before that form has been submitted. Having forms retain data in ...

Sunday February 25th, 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

Creating Resuable Web Components with Stencil

Stencil is a compiler that generates Custom Elements (part of the Web Components specification) for reuse in any JavaScript web framework. Stencil was conceived by the creators of the Ionic Framework as means to build reliable framework-agnostic components. The Stencil developers put emphasis on creating progressive web apps that make use of modern browser features in a user-friendly manner. So, no matter if you use Angular, React or Vue.js for developing web applications Stencil allows you create and share reusable components that run ...

Sunday February 18th, 2018 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applications

The Magical Number Seven

This article by designer Jeff Davidson is an informative reminder of the well-known observation that human working memory has a capacity of 7 items (give or take 1 or 2). This observation, originally posited by cognitive psychologist George A. Miller in his paper The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two is a crucial guideline for designing user interfaces. If a user interface contains more than that number of different chunks of information it'll appear cluttered and overloaded to the user, who will ...

Sunday February 11th, 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Software

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