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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.

Analysing the Complexity of Angular Apps

Analysing an existing application if you join a project. Assessing the quality and maintainability of an application. Identifying soft spots in an application which could benefit the most from refactoring. There are numerous reasons for wanting to size up the complexity of an application. In addition to general and language-specific tools provided by IDEs and applications such as SonarLint / SonarQube it can be useful to not only take framework specifics into account but to actually make use of them to get a better ...

Stefan Judis @ RuhrJS 2017: Watch your back, Browser! You’re being observed

At RuhrJS 2017 Stefan Judis gave an interesting talk on DOM APIs in the context of reactive programming and Observables:

Sunday April 29th, 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

Alexandra Leisse @ RuhrJS 2017 – Death by a thousand paper cuts

At RuhrJS 2017 UX designer Alexandra Leisse talked about her personal experience with designing user experience for enterprise applications and how to deal with the continually growing complexity involved in that process:

Sunday April 22nd, 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

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

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

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

Designer Lynx: Curated Links About Design

Designer Lynx is a curated collection of articles and other relevant resources such as design systems, icons, prototyping tools and software for designing user interfaces. Further categories include UI design inspiration and design topics such as colour and typography.

Sunday January 28th, 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications

Anjana Vakil @ RuhrJS 2017 – Immutable Data Structures for Functional JS

At RuhrJS 2017 Anjana Vakil gave a fascinating talk on immutable data structures for use with functional programming. This talk involves some great educational storytelling. Even if you've never had a computer science course on data structures and never entirely understood things like hashes, trees or tries, after having watched this talk you will!

Sunday January 14th, 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

Björn Wilmsmann

my blog. for you.

Let’s talk digital.