Concrete vs Generic – The story of a data model

The story of a project In the last project I was working on, we struggled a lot with our data model. The task was to replace an old product service with a new one. The old system has grown over time, was hard to maintain and the guys who made it have been gone a […]

Coursera Full Stack Web Development Capstone Project

A couple of days ago I finished my capstone project for the Full Stack Web Development specialization on Coursera. It marks the end of the 6-course specialization about Bootstrap CSS, AngularJS and NodeJS. The Assignment The assignment itself is simple: Build a web application with the tools taught in the course (Bootstrap CSS, AngularJS, NodeJS, […]

Coursera Full Stack Web Development Course Review

During the last 6 months I did the Full Stack Web Development course on Coursera. Since I’m currently about to finish the course by implementing my final capstone project (https://github.com/tuhrig/mebo), I wanted to share my thoughts about the course and its pros and cons. About the course The Full Stack Web Development course consists of […]

AngularJS Intensive Workshop by Robin Böhm/Symetics GmbH

Last week I attended an AngularJS Intensive Workshop by Robin Böhm/Symetics GmbH. Symetics is the company behind www.angularjs.de and provides consulting and training all around JavaScript, AngularJS (1/2) and TypeScript. The location The 3-days workshop was located in the UNPERFEKT Haus in Essen. The UNPERFEKT Haus is an open space for artists, students and musicians […]

Anti Patterns

A couple of days ago I have been to a tech talk from eBay in Berlin. The talk was hold by a developer of the eBay Kleinanzeigen team (a subsection of eBay in Germany) who talked about development patterns his team learned during the years. He mentioned behavioral patterns, design patterns and coding pattern his […]

Hello Berlin!

The last months have been an interesting and busy time for me (that’s why I didn’t write as much as I had planed, but I already got some new drafts in my WordPress!). After I finished my master’s thesis at Informatica in Stuttgart (greetings to the whole team!), I moved to Berlin for my first […]

DeployMan (command line tool to deploy Docker images to AWS)

DeployMan Yesterday, I published a tool called DeployMan on GitHub. DeployMan is a command line tool to deploy Docker images to AWS and was the software prototype for my master thesis. I wrote my thesis at Informatica in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf, so first of all, I want to say thank you to Thomas Kasemir for the opportunity […]

Presentation of my master thesis

Over the last six months, I wrote my master thesis about porting an enterprise OSGi application to a PaaS. Last Monday, the 21th Juli 2014, I presented the main results of my thesis to my professor (best greetings to you, Mr. Goik!) and to my colleges (thanks to all of you!) at Informatica in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf, […]

The thesis writing toolbox

I spend the last weeks (or months?) at my desk writing my Master thesis about OSGi, PaaS and Docker. After my Bachelor thesis two years ago, this was my second big “literary work”. And as any computer scientist, I love tools! So here is my toolbox I used to write my thesis. LyX/LaTeX I did […]

Who is using OSGi?

Who is using OSGi? If you take a look http://www.osgi.org/About/Members you will see more than a hundred members of the the OSGi Alliance and a lot of big players just like IBM or Oracle. But lets do a little investigation with Google Trends on our own. Google Trends Google Trends is a service where you […]