When I have been working with my clients over the last years, I have seen how crucial it can be to establish a common sense git workflow for a team to become productive . I experienced several constellations -- for instance when working in a team of thrown together developers, in an established team that just transitioned from another version…
As I worked with my recent client to develop their lay out the groundwork for their React application, I found out that testing was an important topic for them. They are shipping their React application into embedded systems only once or twice a year. As conclusion there must be a guarantee that everything is working as expected, because there are…
When you get started with Git, it can be quite overwhelming. First, the idea of a distributed version control system and the benefits of it are not clear for everyone. And second, there are plenty of commands with additional options in order to master Git on the command line. It can be intimidating. However, you will never need all the combinations…
There a various tutorials showing you how to host your web applications with a couple of lines on any hosting solution. But that's it. You are able to host your application somewhere, but there are a lot of open questions. What about using an own domain? What about securing it with SSL? What about hosting multiple applications side by side yet…
Recently, I built my own course platform to teach students and professionals about web development. The courses on the platform are teaching about React and its ecosystem, but I want to generalize the platform's implementation in the future. It should be reusable for for other educational domains too. The platform launch came along with the release…
It might be a common issue in teaching computer science at universities: While you learn about bubble sorts, lambda calculus and permutations, nobody mentors you about common developer subjects. In the early days at university, I often wondered: What is an API? Not everyone is fully aware of it, but APIs follow us through a multitude of…
The following document is only a cheatsheet which summarises the steps you need to take to setup your own website. On purpose it's called technical, because you will not use a content management system (CMS) like Wordpress. It doesn't claim to be complete nor to guide you exhaustively through the whole process. After all it should only give you…
