Web Applications | Björn Wilmsmann

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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.

Aaron Parecki – Why Do We Really Need OAuth Anyway? @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2021

At this year's beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf IndieWebCamp co-founder and OAuth consultant Aaron Parecki gave a talk about OAuth, why we need it, and how we can use it to simplify authentication and authorization in web applications: Aaron Parecki - Why Do We Really Need OAuth Anyway? - beyond tellerrand Düseldorf 2021 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo. Aaron also provides a guide to building an OAuth 2.0 server and a video course titled "The Nuts and Bolts of OAuth 2.0".

Stratospheric – 1.3 Released: 🔒SSL Setup Made Easy

After a minor update last month, which was largely about migrating to Spring Cloud AWS 2.3.2 and various configuration improvements, Tuesday we released a major update of Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS! Apart from general housekeeping efforts, revision 1.3 of the ebook contains these major improvements: A consistent SSL and (optional) custom domain setup: The previous order in which we introduced various infrastructure components caused problems with duplicate HTTP listeners in our ELB configuration and an SSL ...

Friday November 26th, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

The Layers Of The Web – Jeremy Keith @ beyond tellerrand Berlin 2019

Earlier this week - after a hiatus of almost two years on account of having been postponed due to the pandemic - this year's beyond tellerrand conference, an event about design, creativity, and the web, went ahead again. Even though Marc Thiele, the mastermind, organiser, and genuinely awesome person behind beyond tellerrand, ran a terrific series of online events under the Stay Curious moniker while on-site events weren't allowed to take place, it was amazing to be back at this wonderful event ...

Sunday November 14th, 2021 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications

Stratospheric – Version 1.1 Released

Last week, we released the first update of "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS" after our 1.0 release in August. Thanks a lot to GitHub users anthony-be, skhurram, alrawas, mygordienko, and lealceldeiro, who contributed to our sample Todo app by creating issues and pull requests. The code changes resulting from these contributions in turn are reflected in our latest update for the eBook, in which we clarified some aspects about scaling out / sticky sessions and added a ...

Sunday October 10th, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

Using SQLite on a Static Website Without a Back-end Server

GitHub user phiresky recently published an interesting blog post on Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages. Using SQLite - or in fact any kind of SQL database - in the browser? Why should one want to do this? Now, while it's certainly true that in the context of web applications SQL databases and RDBMS generally are relegated to the realm of back-end servers, depending on the requirements, a database in a front-end application or a self-contained application that doesn't even have or ...

Sunday September 19th, 2021 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

A few random thoughts on the development of software development in recent years

Last year, I replied to Tom's question "Has software development grown harder over the last years or have I just grown sluggish?" on Twitter with these incoherent ramblings of a greybeard, who has seen at least 3 fat-client-thin-client cycles: As usual it depends. Just a few examples: Spring Webflux and the "Everything has to be reactive even if the requirements don't demand it." fad is a bane. Just recently, I've been helping a client with getting Spring 5's WebClient to work with a ...

Sunday August 29th, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

Stratospheric – In Orbit Now: Content-complete Version 1.0

Last week, we released version 1.0 of our eBook "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS"! We hope you like this now content-complete release version of Stratospheric. Thanks to everyone who showed their trust in this project during its early stages! Here are some key facts about this project and the application we built as part of the book: 445 pages eBook with practical hands-on advice for running production-ready Spring Boot applications on AWS three main modules: "Deploying with AWS", "Spring ...

Sunday August 8th, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

A Collection of for a Improving the UX of Signup and Login Workflows

Independent UX designer Erik D. Kennedy recently published an article with 15 Tips for Better Signup / Login UX on Learn UI Design - a website through which he provides acclaimed courses on both UI and UX design. The article lists general suggestions such as autofocusing on the first field (i.e. the username, or rather: email, field), immediately validating form values, or making input labels clickable, as well as more specific - but no less expedient - ones like making password requirements explicit to ...

Sunday July 11th, 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

Second-order Affordances: Design & Quantum Superposition

A few years ago, having read a thought-provoking article by Csongor Bartus I wrote about design & quantum superposition. The main idea behind this article, and my interpretation, is that - similar to a particle, which exists in a state of quantum superposition - a design doesn't exist by itself but can only ever be realised in a given context and at a specific moment through observation by a user and possibly a device that design is observed with. The gist, ...

Sunday June 27th, 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web, Web Applications

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