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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.

Five Articles on Software Quality and Design Patterns

This week I'd like to point you to five articles I previously posted on this blog and from which I think that they're as relevant as they were at the time. The first three are about general software design principles, software architecture and software quality while the final two refer to specific best practices and common design patterns for Angular: Writing Disposable Code, Not Reusable Code (November 06, 2016) What Causes Over-engineering and How Can You Prevent It? (April 16, 2017) Less Is More ...
Sunday January 24th, 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications
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Declarative vs. Imperative Programming From A Web App Perspective

In his article Declarative vs. Imperative Programming for the Web visual content designer and self-described former engineer Pascal Cremer does a nice job at explaining the differences between these two common programming paradigms and how declarative programming can lead to much more concise, comprehensible and readable code. He provides examples from a web context and shows how declarative programming lends itself to being used in a functional reactive programming style, which has become very popular with frameworks such as RxJS.
Sunday April 14th, 2019 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications
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How to Subscribe to Multiple RxJS Observables in Angular

Cory Rylan, Google Developer Expert and instructor at Angular Boot Camp wrote this article on subscribing to multiple observables in Angular components. In this article, Cory explains how to use the RxJS forkJoin and combineLatest operators in conjunction with Angular's *ngIf directive and the AsyncPipe in order to consume asynchronous data provided by multiple RxJS Observables.
Sunday January 6th, 2019 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web Applications
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Michael Hladky @ AngularConnect 2018: RxJS schedulers in depth

Sunday December 30th, 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web Applications
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RxJS: Observables, Observers, Subjects …

When developing web applications - or in fact any kind of application that involves interaction via a user interface - we inevitably have to deal with asynchronous events, perhaps even streams of such events, e.g.: mouse clicks asynchronous HTTP calls and subsequent display of data push notifications Because events are such an essential part of both the feature set and the user experience of many, if not even most, user-facing applications frameworks such as Angular treat them as first-class citizens and provide developers with ...
Sunday September 2nd, 2018 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications
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