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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.

Using Spring JdbcTemplate Instead of Object-Relational Mapping

Spring JDBC and Spring JdbcTemplate in particular has become my go-to tool for accessing relational databases for quite some time now and for good reason in my opinion: The common way for using data from an RDBMS in an object-oriented context used to be and for the most part still is object-relational mapping (ORM) frameworks like the Java Persistence API (JPA) or Rails' ActiveRecord. As the name suggests these frameworks attempt to map data (and concepts) from relational, set-oriented data structures, which ...

Mario Klingemann @ beyond tellerrand 2017 – Machimaginarium

Machimaginarium – Mario Klingemann – btconfDUS2017 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Sunday August 6th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design

Jeremy Keith @ beyond tellerrand 2017 – Evaluating Technology

Jeremy Keith @ beyond tellerrand 2017: Evaluating Technology – Jeremy Keith – btconfDUS2017 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Sunday July 30th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web Applications

Flexbox Explained with Animations

Flexbox is a fairly new CSS3 layout standard that allows you to have layout elements automatically fit the available space according to layout rules defined in a website's stylesheet. While as of today still a W3C Candidate Recommendation Flexbox is already well-supported by all major browsers. In contrast to tried and true block- or grid-based layouts with Flexbox the onus of defining the exact placement of an element isn't on the designer but the browser. Flexbox therefore is much more, well, flexible ...

Sunday July 23rd, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Web Applications

Sarah Drasner @ beyond tellerrand 2017 – Storytelling in JavaScript

Sarah Drasner @ beyond tellerrand 2017:

Sunday July 16th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web Applications

The Noun Project – Building the World’s Visual Language

Today there's certainly no shortage of icon sets and icon search engines (see the list below for a selection of those). These come in different flavours, mostly as icon fonts or SVG files, and can be easily integrated in a website or web application using standard HTML and CSS techniques. A particularly ambitious offering though is the Noun Project. The Noun Project provides a huge collection of curated icons (or rather huge amount of icon collections) created by a large community. Their ...

Sunday July 9th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Web Applications

Björn Wilmsmann

my blog. for you.

Let’s talk digital.

Using Spring JdbcTemplate Instead of Object-Relational Mapping

Mario Klingemann @ beyond tellerrand 2017 – Machimaginarium

Jeremy Keith @ beyond tellerrand 2017 – Evaluating Technology

Flexbox Explained with Animations

Sarah Drasner @ beyond tellerrand 2017 – Storytelling in JavaScript

The Noun Project – Building the World’s Visual Language

Espen Brunborg @ beyond tellerrand 2017 – The Secret Life of Comedy

Jina Anne @ beyond tellerrand 2017 – Design Systems: Real Talk

Phil Hawksworth @ beyond tellerrand 2017: Dodging Bullets – Microservices for Fewer Sleepless Nights

Chris Heilmann @ beyond tellerrand 2017: Breaking out of the Tretris Mindset