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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.

Impulse – Dynamic Physics Animations For The Mobile Web

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.

Stephen Hay – Maintaining Simplicity

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.

Sunday October 19th, 2014 by Bjoern in Design, Web Applications

Voyager: Lost

Sunday October 12th, 2014 by Bjoern in Music

Maciej Ceglowski – The Internet With a Human Face

More videos of the beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2014 design conference are online now. This one is Maciej Ceglowski's talk about The Internet With a Human Face: Maciej Ceglowski – The Internet With a Human Face – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2014 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Sunday October 5th, 2014 by Bjoern in Design, Web

Seventh Wonder: Inner Enemy

This week's post is the start of a little series of music videos by up and coming Progressive Metal / Progressive Rock bands I listen to. This song's Inner Enemy by Seventh Wonder.

Sunday September 28th, 2014 by Bjoern in Music

Robin Christopherson – Technology – The Power And The Promise

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.

Sunday September 21st, 2014 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

On Hiring Developers

Laurie Voss, CTO at npm posted an interesting article on why many companies aren't able to hire good developers in spite of elaborate hiring and interviewing processes. It's a rather lengthy post but very much worth the read. The gist is this: Don't hire someone for what they know already, hire someone for potential and eagerness to grow. Hire people capable of both solving complex problems and communicating clearly. Last not least: Don't hire assholes. The author's own TL;DR is this: Many interview ...

Sunday September 14th, 2014 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Software

Zen Design Principles

Following up on last week's post about Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind I came across an interesting article on Co.Design about 7 Design Principles, Inspired By Zen Wisdom. These principles build upon a concept called shibumi: To understand the Zen principles, a good starting point is shibumi. It is an overarching concept, an ideal. It has no precise definition in Japanese, but its meaning is reserved for objects and experiences that exhibit in paradox and all at once the very best of ...

Sunday September 7th, 2014 by Bjoern in Design

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

Recently, I heard designer Stephen Hay talk about the concept Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. The idea resonated with me. Now, I don't mean to delve into Buddhist teachings. I'm by no means an expert on that. What I'd like to broach is the more practical implications of this phrase - or at least one possible interpretation thereof. Maintaining a beginner's mind that's curious to learn, try and fail keeps you from getting into a rut. It means being open-minded, avoiding the well-trodden path. Such ...

Sunday August 31st, 2014 by Bjoern in Design

Deep Learning for NLP

Richard Socher, Chris Manning and Yoshua Bengio have created a tutorial on "Deep Learning for NLP (without Magic)". The tutorial includes slides and two videos of talks held on the subject. It deals with how deep learning algorithms can be applied in natural language processing. Deep learning is a set of algorithms and models which work under the assumption that observed data is generated from multiple layers of hidden representations that interact with each other. Although not really new and for some ...

Sunday August 24th, 2014 by Bjoern in Software

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