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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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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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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
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Why motion matters in UI design

UI designer Craig Dehner wrote this interesting article about why he thinks motion design is the future. I wouldn't necessarily use such grandiose terms but essentially I agree: Motion design might not be THE future but it'll certainly play a vital role in current and future user interfaces. It took operating systems and browsers some time to be able to display smooth, seemingly natural animation (using CSS3 animations in the latter case). Now that animation is a staple of modern UI frameworks and ...
Sunday May 8th, 2016 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Mobile Applications, Web Applications
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