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Slides from WJAX
If you’ve seen my talk about web application architecture at WJAX 2015, and would like to download the slides, you can download them here: WJAX 2015 – Mobile, microservices and multichannel.pdf If you are interested in learning more about some of the topics mentioned, I’ve previously collected a list of blog posts, articles, videos and…
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Slides from my talk at MobileTechCon 2015
Thanks to everybody attending my talk “Mobile, Microservices und Multichannel – warum Web-App-Architektur sich ändern muss” at the Mobile Tech Conference 2015 in Munich. Feel free to download a PDF of the slides used in the talk: MobileTech2015 – mobile, microservices, multichannel (images compressed) Images are compressed to reduce the file size; if you’d like…
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“Shownotes” for my talk at MobileTechCon 2015
In the tradition of podcasts providing a list of links to things that were talked about, here’s a few pointers for further information about some of the topics I mentioned in my talk titled “Mobile, Microservices und Multichannel – warum Web-App-Architektur sich ändern muss” at the Mobile Tech Conference 2015. Html5 browser support: http://caniuse.com/ Mobile…
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Why Apple bought Beats? Beats me.
So the long-rumored acquisition of Beats by Apple has been confirmed, with press release and all. Which tells us precious little, except “Beats is awesome” and “Music is really important to us”. So why did Apple buy Beats? Let’s look at possible reasons why companies buy other companies, and see if the beats deal makes sense…
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Javascript I love you, but you need to clean up your mess
We are finally reaching the point where dropping support for IE7 is pretty much a given, and the time when IE8 support can be dropped for even conservative audiences draws nearer. So we can finally join the brave new world of fully dynamic rich client applications written in cross-browser supported standard javascript. Well, not quite…
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What the ipad is good for – a real-life review after a year of owning one
This is not an ipad review – there’s little doubt the ipad is the best tablet on the market. Rather, I’m trying to answer the question “Do I need or want a tablet at all?”, a.k.a. “Is there really a gap between smartphone and laptop?”. The answer: It’s the two-seater convertible sportscar of computers: It…
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How to compete with Google in Search
To google something has become a verb. Google search is the overwhelmingly largest source of traffic for many sites. Google’s market share in most markets is higher than its competitors combined. Google has brand identity, search quality, technological quality, and page speed down pat. So how would you compete with Google search? (Not that google…
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My experience with pair programming
It spreads knowledge about the codebase Since two people worked on the code, two people know intricately how it works, and can fix bugs in it without first having to spend time to learn the inner workings. Yeah, I know, in theory everybody should be familiar with everything, but in time-constrained practice you often have…
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How to get hosted when couchsurfing
It’s Oktoberfest season in Munich, so I´ve been getting a lot of couchsurfing requests lately, way more than I can, or want to, host. Also, couchsurfing has gained a lot of popularity and attention lately, so there`s an influx of a huge number of cs newbies, which, unfortunately, leads to a rising percentage of lame…
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Game development, 1986
Found a fascinating read: Jordan mechners development journal from 1986. Some excerpts: He spent most of a day trying to get vhs video (taken on a $2000 video camera) into the computer. He ended up photographing every single frame with a photo camera, waiting for the prints to be developed, and then scanning the stills.…
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