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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.

Co-create

Half a house is a 99% Invisible (a podcast about anything design and architecture - highly recommended if you haven't subscribed yet) episode about a housing project in the Chilean town of Constitución. After an 8.8 magnitude earthquake in 2010 the people of Constitución were in dire need of affordable housing. The solution the Chilean architecture firm Elemental, who were tasked with the project, came up with is equally radical and beautiful. It epitomises the spirit of co-creation and design principles like Wabi-sabi. ...
Sunday January 22nd, 2017 by Bjoern in Design
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CoderDojo: Free Programming Clubs For Young People

At last year's Web Summit in Dublin I came across CoderDojo, a community that organizes free programming clubs for young people. Originally founded in Cork by entrepreneurs James Whelton and Bill Liao, CoderDojo is a volunteer-led 'grass roots'-type organization that promotes teaching programming to young people in order to support kids by giving them valuable skills that allow them to create stuff such as useful tools, products and art. At the same time efforts like this help tackle the shortage of people ...
Sunday February 28th, 2016 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Software, Web
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