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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.

About the Roles to Assume in Software Development

Software engineer Patrick Dubroy recently wrote this interesting article about five different hats to put on when thinking about and working with code - and much more importantly - the other people involved in the process. While each individual engineer's might differ slightly (though the most important one, in my opinion, the teaching hat, is something fairly universal), the key point is: You're not just coder. You're not an automaton merely producing code. In fact, these days, with LLMs and generative AI, ...
Sunday April 13th, 2025 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Software
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Blogumentation Revisited

Some time ago I wrote about a process called "blogumentation": Derived from the insight that arguably the best way to learn something and to internalise knowledge is to write about it and to try and explain that knowledge to others, blogumentation essentially means writing about a subject matter (e.g. a solution to a particular programming problem or a new practice you've just learned about) that you consider worth documenting and publishing the result. It means that instead of documenting something just for ...
Sunday May 9th, 2021 by Bjoern in Software
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Blogumentation

I'm not sure if he actually came up with the term 'blogumentation' but software quality engineer Jamie Tanna features quite prominently when searching for it so at the very least he appears to be one of its more avid and deliberate users. Anyway, while the term 'blogumentation' might be somewhat obscure the concept behind this particular portmanteau is a seminal one. Basically, it derives from the insight that often the best way to learn and internalise knowledge is to talk, write and ...
Sunday October 28th, 2018 by Bjoern in Software
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