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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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HTML is an API

HTML is an API or rather it could be if we used more in the way it was intended. In a comment on this Hacker News post about Toapi, a library that makes clever use of XPath expressions in order to provide an API from existing web pages, a user wrote Now I don't want to be a downer: but we collectively seem to have forgotten that HTML as a markup language with sufficient semantic elements, is a perfect API in itself. ...
Sunday May 20th, 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Paul Verbeek-Mas @ RuhrJS 2017 – Calendar / Kalender / تقويم (aka, the fun of locali[zs]ation)

At RuhrJS 2017 Paul Verbeek-Mas gave an interesting talk on the joys and intricacies of i18n and l10n with regard to how time, dates and calendars are rendered in web apps:
Sunday January 7th, 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Software, 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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