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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.

Cassie Evans – Animating the Impossible @ btconf Düsseldorf 2023

Sunday May 28th, 2023 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications
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Michelle Barker – Modern CSS Layout is Awesome! @ btconf Düsseldorf 2023

Sunday May 21st, 2023 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications
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Jeremy Keith – Declarative Design @ “Stories on the Road”

More on this idea: Design & Quantum Superposition
Sunday April 23rd, 2023 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications
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Client-Side Rendering on the Web: Approaches and Frameworks

Exploring Potential Benefits of Client-Side Rendering Client-side rendering is a powerful tool for web developers, offering a range of benefits that can help to improve the user experience and performance of a website. In this article, we will explore the advantages of client-side rendering and how it can be used to create a better user experience. Client-side rendering is a process in which the browser is used to render the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript of a web page. This is in contrast to ...
Sunday February 12th, 2023 by Bjoern in Software, Web, Web Applications
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Tools for Working With CSS Grid Layouts and Flexbox

CSS Grid Layout and CSS Flexible Box Layout, commonly known as Flexbox, are powerful techniques for implementing flexible grid and column- or row-based layouts with CSS. These two techniques enable designers and web developers to accurately and fluidly position elements and content on web pages and web applications. While Flexbox (see A Complete Guide to Flexbox by CSS-Tricks) predominantly works along a single principal dimension, called the main axis or flex direction (either row or column), and therefore essentially is a one-dimensional ...
Sunday November 22nd, 2020 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web Applications
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Rachel Andrew @ Fronteers 2019: Who Designed This? Where Web Platform Features Come From, and How to Get Involved

Rachel Andrew - Who Designed This? Where Web Platform Features Come From, and How to Get Involved from Fronteers on Vimeo.
Sunday January 5th, 2020 by Bjoern in Web
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hex to rgb(): Convert Hexadecimal CSS Colour Values to CSS rgb() Function Calls

Inspired by this Tweet by data visualisation and generative design expert Mike Brondbjerg I've created a tiny tool for the use case of converting CSS hexadecimal colour values to their rgb() counterparts: https://bjoernkw.github.io/hexrgb/ is there a nice online tool for converting a string of hex codes to a string of RGBs? thanks!— Mike Brondbjerg | @[email protected] (@mikebrondbjerg) February 4, 2019 hex to rgb() is a simple utility web app that converts hexadecimal CSS colour values to CSS rgb() function calls. Very much ...
Sunday April 7th, 2019 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web Applications
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Miriam Suzanne – Don’t Use My Grid System (Or Any Others) @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2018

Sunday July 29th, 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications
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Chrome DevTools Tips and Tricks

Chrome DevTools - or rather the development console of your favourite browser - is an essential toolkit for the modern web application developer. They help you with both debugging your own application and understanding and hence learning from other people's JavaScript, HTML and CSS code. Mastering your tools is a key ingredient to mastering your trade. Therefore it's vital to always be learning about how to use these tools more efficiently and how to apply them in different ways or with new ...
Sunday June 17th, 2018 by Bjoern in Software, Web, Web Applications
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Rachel Andrew @ RuhrJS 2017: Start Using CSS Grid Layout Today

As the obligatory CSS person at a JavaScript conference, at RuhrJS 2017 CSS expert Rachel Andrew gave a talk on CSS grid layouts and how they differ from flexbox layouts:
Sunday December 17th, 2017 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web Applications
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