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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 ...
Sunday November 26th, 2023 by Bjoern in Business, Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, Software, Web Applications
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Modern Web App Design Patterns: Patterns.dev

After last week's post on The Modern JavaScript Tutorial, a comprehensive guide to modern JavaScript, as something of a follow-up, today I'd like to introduce you to Patterns.dev (previously known as "Modern Web App Design Patterns"), an ebook on "design patterns and component patterns for building powerful web apps with vanilla JavaScript and React". The authors of Patterns.dev provide design patterns and tips on how to improve the architecture of your web apps. Patterns.dev follows a descriptive rather than prescriptive approach in ...
Sunday October 29th, 2023 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applications
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The Modern JavaScript Tutorial

The Modern JavaScript Tutorial is a comprehensive guide to - well - modern JavaScript. Regularly updated and available both for free online (under a CC-BY-NC licence) and as an ebook, this tutorial introduces the reader to JavaScript as it is (or should be) written today. From JavaScript basics to object orientation, data types, functional programming and asynchronous behaviour, it covers everything the prospective JavaScript developer needs to know about writing high-quality, maintainable JavaScript code according to best practices.
Sunday October 22nd, 2023 by Bjoern in Software, Web, Web Applications
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JSON Visualization With JSON Crack

JSON Crack is a JSON visualization solution that allows to generated ad-hoc graph visualizations for your JSON data. While one of the huge advantages of JSON over other data formats certainly is that it's human-readable, more complex JSON documents containing linked data structures can become unwieldy and difficult to understand - at a cursory glimpse, at least. Such situations is where a tool like JSON Crack for visualizing data can come handy.
Saturday April 1st, 2023 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applications
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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
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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
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Debugging for Mobile Browsers

Occasionally, web developers need to debug a web app's behaviour in a specific browser on a specific device or class of devices. For desktop devices this usually isn't a problem because every modern browser nowadays provides a console, where application errors and custom console.log statements pile up. However, on mobile browsers there's usually no browser console, or browser development tools, for that matter. Analysing browser logs is still possible via vendors' development tools like Apple's Xcode, for example. Still, that process often ...
Sunday May 3rd, 2020 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Mobile Applications, Software, Web Applications
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“Paging with Spring Boot” by Tom Hombergs: A Guide to Paging and Pagination in Spring-based Web Applications

In his article Paging with Spring Boot software engineer Tom Hombergs (a former fellow student) provides an in-depth explanation of paging and pagination concepts and how to implement those in web applications with Spring Data and its Pageable interface. The article covers aspects such as sorting, usage with Spring Data repositories and testing. It's a useful reference for iteratively retrieving and displaying a larger amount of items from a database in a Spring Boot and Spring Data context in an efficient manner. There's ...
Sunday July 7th, 2019 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications
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