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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.

Ruby on Rails: The Documentary

Ruby on Rails has one of the most faithful communities online, it also has one of the most controversial, rabble-rousing creators out there, Danish programmer, David Heinemeier Hansson. Widely known as DHH, David tells us how Rails went from a crazy idea to one of the most talked-about full-stack frameworks over the course of 20 years. Given that Ruby on Rails has been hugely influential and seminal in the software development industry for the last two decades, not least by inspiring ...

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

HTTP Status Codes in a Nutshell

Recently, full-stack developer Parik tweeted this slide from a talk that neatly - if in a somewhat flippant manner - summarises HTTP status codes: https://twitter.com/parik36/status/1521467121720598536 1**: "Hold on!" 2** "Here you go!" 3**: "Go away!" 4**: "You fucked up." 5**: "I fucked up." In other - only slightly more technical - terms, HTTP status codes can be categorised as: 1**: Informational 2** Successful 3**: Redirects 4**: Client errors 5**: Server error

Sunday June 19th, 2022 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applications

Harry Roberts – Get Your “head” Straight @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2021

At this year's Düsseldorf edition of beyond tellerrand, Web Performance Consultant Harry Roberts gave this insightful talk on how to design and craft the oft-overlooked (no pun intended ...) HTML <head> element's content in terms of performance: Harry Roberts - Get Your "head" Straight - beyond tellerrand Düseldorf 2021 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Sunday December 12th, 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Web, Web Applications

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".

Sunday December 5th, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

Welcome Back: beyond tellerrand Opening Titles Düsseldorf 2021

Last week, I was at the 2021 Düsseldorf edition of beyond tellerrand. As most on-site events during the last two years, beyond tellerrand had been postponed until, earlier this year, they got the go-ahead that the event was finally allowed to take place again. In spite of the rather short time to prepare, Marc and his team once again put on a fantastic event. These beautiful opening titles celebrate the event's return to the limelight with the simple, but very appropriate, words "Welcome ...

Sunday November 21st, 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Web

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

Image Compression Utility: Squoosh

When working with images on web applications and websites optimising images and reducing their download size is a quick win in terms of optimising page and app load times. There are plenty of image compression utilities out there - both web apps and tools for local installation. Recently, I've tried out several of those again because I wanted to reduce the overall load time of this website and according to website audit tools such as Lighthouse image sizes definitely was an area ...

Sunday January 17th, 2021 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications

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

Jeremy Keith & Remy Sharp @ Fronteers 2019: How We Built the World Wide Web in Five Days

Jeremy Keith & Remy Sharp - How We Built the World Wide Web in Five Days from Fronteers on Vimeo.

Sunday December 29th, 2019 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web

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