[explain : legacy system]

In a recent project I had the chance to rebuild an older backend from zero. I was able to deliver on time and budget after 240 hours. Furthermore, all closed-source dependencies got removed and even functionality improvements were made. Let me explain and summarize what was done. what came before war in a Tomcat 8…

[explain: Beta]

Beta? α? Why "Beta solutions"? Join me for a quick journey about computers, rocks and the desire to get better at what you do. Back to the 80s El Capitan - by Patrick Scales [4] With the first shoes for rock climbing getting manufactured and sold in the United States, new difficulty levels were being…

[smartics : routing]

This weekend I worked on showing historic data. To actually show anything but the current overview I had to get the menu in the application working first. For that I am using another library called react-router. I will quickly show how to include it in a react app that is already using bootstrap. First we…

[smartics : respond!]

After finally getting some frontend and visualizations done, I would not want to stop there. The logical next step in my opinion is to invest a little bit into the responsiveness of the application. Especially since an app that has a browser fontend is going to be opened on a mobile some time. In the…

[smartics : d3]

Where to start? Besides work and being sick, I got some d3 visualizations done over the last weekend and follow-up nights. What's my take? I thought it will be more complicated in general, but less complicated for myself. So all in all it was quite some effort to get some specifics with axes, scaling and…

[smart plan : plan smart]

Working in software development professionally sometimes months, even years pass before you manage to code at home 'for fun'. A few weeks ago, it happened to me that I grabbed my mechanical keyboard and got down to business - well the not paying, but strangely satisfying kind. That might sound less exciting than it actually…