Money is not a scorecard
Two weeks ago I came across an interesting article on the Mr. Money Mustache blog: “What I’m Teaching my Son about Money” As is usual for Mr. Money Mustache it’s a very insightful post about money,...
View ArticleEverything you ever want to know about enterprise sales
This title sounds a bit like dirty secrets, doesn’t it? When thinking of enterprise software sales most people think about arcane, lengthy, sometimes sleazy bureaucratic processes entailing: Vendors...
View ArticleSupporting the Idea of an Unconditional Basic Income
About a year ago Scott Santens – self-declared writer and advocate of basic income for all – wrote a highly recommendable piece on why should support the idea of an unconditional basic income. In this...
View ArticleModern SQL (with PostgreSQL)
SQL expert Markus Winand some time ago posted an insightful presentation on Modern SQL (mostly PostgreSQL-focussed) at SlideShare. The 116 slides contain plenty of modern SQL idioms you likely haven’t...
View Articleng-admin: Create admin panels from REST APIs
ng-admin is a helpful AngularJS UI component that automatically creates an admin user interface for RESTful APIs. Such a component is particularly useful for instance with back end applications in...
View ArticleData Visualizations by Stefanie Posavec
This February at this year’s Reasons To Be Creative London spin-off I had the opportunity to watch Stefanie Posavec give a presentation on post-infographics and data visualization. Her work and the way...
View ArticleExpanding Human Sensory Perception
In this mind-blowing TED talk neuroscientist David Eagleman talks about his exciting work to extend and substitute human senses and even add completely new channels to the gamut of human sensory...
View ArticleTiny but valuable life hack: Drastically increase the lifespan of disposable...
Disposable razor blades are expensive and they usually need to be replaced after 4-5 shaves. Now, in the olden days men used special leather strips to sharpen those old-fashioned straight razors...
View ArticleRon Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
Ron Finley is a self-proclaimed guerilla gardener from Los Angeles who took the initiative and went about making his neighborhood a better, healthier place to live by converting vacant lots in the...
View ArticleCameron Herold: Let’s raise kids to be entrepreneurs
In this passionate TED talk Canadian entrepreneur Cameron Herold argues for raising kids to be entrepreneurs instead of lawyers or accountants if we want to solve the world’s problems: Not only is he...
View ArticlePetro Salema – Designing Interfaces That Think @ beyond tellerrand Düssedorf...
Earlier this year at beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2015 I had the privilege to attend a talk by Petro Salema. Petro shared his insights about today’s limits in human computer interaction, attention...
View Article(Deutsch) FreelancerHQ – Newsletter für IT Freiberufler
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View ArticleDave Shea: A Brief History of Web Design
At beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2015 David Shea, creator of the seminal website CSS Zen Garden gave a talk about the history of web design. David Shea takes us back on a – somewhat nostalgic – journey...
View Article(Deutsch) E-Mail im Unternehmen effektiv nutzen
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View ArticleSara Wachter-Boettcher: Content Amid Chaos
At beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf earlier this year content strategy consultant Sara Wachter-Boettcher talked about Content Amid Chaos. Large organizations are inherently messy places often governed by...
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Let’s adore and endure each other
Earlier this year I walked along Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch and saw this – by now pretty much iconic – mural / piece of street art painted on the walls of Village Underground (right underneath...
View ArticlePPK – The Plural of Chromium is Chromia
He’s the ultimate browser nerd. Peter-Paul Koch – commonly referred to as PPK – tests browsers and browser compatibilities so we don’t have to. On his website QuirksMode he publishes articles and...
View ArticleChristian Heilmann – Advancing the web without breaking it?
Web development today is characterized by a constant, rapid flow of new frameworks, CSS preprocessors, task runners, package managers, asset pipelines … Angular, Ember.js, Backbone, React, Flux, Grunt,...
View ArticleJeremy Keith – Enhance!
Much in line with the talk about advancing the web without breaking it in his talk at beyond tellerrand this year Jeremy Keith argues for the benefits of starting with simple solutions to the problem...
View ArticleOpen-sourcing some of my project code: Freshcard and MemoEasy
Modern web development and software development in general for that matter wouldn’t be possible without FOSS: free open source software. Whether it’s web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, frontend...
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