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I’m an independent IT consultant and entrepreneur in the Internet and software business. I’m interested in design, enterprise applications, web apps and SaaS products. I design and develop business solutions and applications. I help companies in terms of software quality and knowledge transfer, e.g. with Angular and Spring Boot.

“OpenAPI and Spring-Boot 4 – What’s New?” By Badr Nass Lahsen @ Spring I/O 2026

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Core Resilience Features in Spring Framework 7 by Juergen Hoeller @ Spring I/O 2026

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DeckWeaver and an Interview About the AI Unified Process

As I frequently run bespoke training sessions and project-based workshops for clients, I create quite a lot of presentations. For quite some time now, I've been collaborating with ChatGPT to help me generate content for such presentations much more efficiently. However, as I use Google Slides (rather than a Markdown-based presentation tool), I faced the significant problem of having to manually import the content into Google Slides presentations via copy and paste, which was very time-consuming. Hence, I had the idea for a ... Read more

Null-Safe Applications With Spring Boot 4 by Sébastien Deleuze @ Spring I/O 2026

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Spec-Driven Development: How AI Changed Everything (And Nothing) by Simon Martinelli @ Spring I/O 2026

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How to Migrate the Legacy Project to Spring Boot by Sergei Chernov @ Spring I/O 2026

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Claude Code for Spring Developers by Thomas Schilling @ Spring I/O 2026

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Getting Your Application Production-Ready With Actuator by Michael Vitz @ Spring I/O 2025

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Java Meets Typescript: Full-Stack Web App Development With Spring Boot and React by Marcus Hellberg @ Spring I/O 2024

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Repost: I don’t want an app for that

About 11 years ago I wrote this - in hindsight, of course - eerily prescient article (in turn inspired by an article by Scott Adams) on what I considered to be the future of UIs: I don’t want an app for that As it turned out, LLM UIs such as ChatGPT and agentic AI systems now pretty much work that way I envisioned the user experience for future computing devices to be like. Read more
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