Enterprise UX: Huge Potential And Anything But Boring
Last year designer Uday Gajendar wrote this interesting post about why he designs enterprise UX suggesting more designers should follow suit. This is pretty much in the vein of another article by...
View ArticleAnalyzing Large Datasets With SQL
As part of a web application I’ve created for a client, I’ve been working on efficient analysis of somewhat large datasets for some time now. This analysis often involves complexing grouping,...
View ArticleCoderDojo: 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,...
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Varying Degrees Of Software Quality And What To Do About It
When working on client projects I come across copious amounts of source code, which sometimes is very well-maintained, sometimes less so. The various code bases are as diverse as their owners and...
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Last week, I met with a few friends for an evening of 80s retro computing – or retro gaming to be specific. We set up an Amiga 500 and a C64 and played classic games like Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge,...
View ArticleUI Design Patterns
UI Patterns is an extensive library of user interface design patterns by Danish web developer Anders Toxboe. This website is a collection of tried and tested best practices in UI design. Although the...
View Article(Deutsch) So sollten Freelancer ihre Preise wirklich kalkulieren
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Accounting in 2016 – Still a manual and tedious process
The past few weeks I’ve been struggling with automating my accounting, invoicing and banking processes to the point I don’t really have to think about it anymore. Currently, a lot of my...
View ArticleHands-on SQL Tips: Guard Elements And Window Functions
Sometimes when displaying data in an application you want the amount of data (rows, individual data points etc.) to be limited for the app to stay responsive and to allow the user to more easily scan...
View ArticleSharing and exploring data models and database patterns
Somewhat in the vein of last week’s post, I’d like to share a new service called dbpatterns with you. dbpatterns allows you to create ER models in the browser and share them with other users. If a...
View ArticleDropdown menus and alternative approaches for selecting from a choice of options
In this post designer Luke Wroblewski outlines why dropdowns should be the UI of last resort. The problem with dropdown menus – also known as select boxes in HTML lingo – is that they’re something of a...
View ArticleA design rationale for Tube stations
In December 2015, Transport for London published the London Underground Station Design Idiom – design and user experience guidelines for London Underground stations, if you will. Ranging from their...
View ArticleWhy motion matters in UI design
UI designer Craig Dehner wrote this interesting article about why he thinks motion design is the future. I wouldn’t necessarily use such grandiose terms but essentially I agree: Motion design might not...
View ArticleBedquiltDB – A JSON document store for PostgreSQL
BedquiltDB is a recently released PostgreSQL extension (written mostly in PL/pgSQL) that leverages PostgreSQL’s relatively new jsonb column type (available since version 9.4) to provide a MongoDB-like...
View ArticleTED Talk – Peter Singer: The Why And How of Effective Altruism
In 2013 philosopher Peter Singer held a TED talk on the intriguing idea of effective altruism. The simple premise of this idea is that with altruism both the heart and the head need to be involved in...
View ArticleJeremy Keith About Resilience In Web Applications @ beyond tellerrand 2016
At this year’s beyond tellerrand conference in Düsseldorf web developer Jeremy Keith gave a talk on resilience in web applications: Resilience – Jeremy Keith – btconfDUS 2016 from beyond tellerrand on...
View ArticleFollow-up on “Accounting in 2016”
Two months ago, I wrote an article on how accounting in 2016 still is a manual and tedious process. What made me write this article in the first place was the problem that I couldn’t automatically get...
View ArticleDominic Wilcox: The Reinvention of Normal
At beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf in May London-based artist / designer / inventor Dominic Wilcox gave a hilarious talk on his work, which is at the same time ingenious, playful, sometimes ridiculous...
View ArticleSecurity Expert Mario Heiderich About AngularJS and Security
At beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf this year security expert Mario Heidrich gave a fast-paced – if sometimes too abrasive for my liking – talk about security and AngularJS: This talk contains a lot of...
View ArticleBig O Notation: Less Scary Than You Might Think
As a software developer chances are that at some time in your professional life you’ll come across a mathematical concept called Big O notation. Now, if you happen to not have a traditional university...
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