Development Process – Christian Lüdemann

Efficient Sprints (as a frontend developer) – How to build quality software fast

Christian — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 16:57:16 +0000

In this video, I will show you the process of developing Angular apps efficiently. Here’s what we are going to cover: Refining and task breakdown processes The feature kickoff Building the skeleton Splitting up the work

Angular Projects and Lessons Learned

Christian — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:28:33 +0000

Throughout my career, I have worked on quite a few Angular projects. In this post, I will go through some of the different projects I have worked on and explain the lessons learned in each so you can learn from them. Ionic + Cordova mobile app with AngularJS (2015) This app was about creating an …

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The monorepo blueprint (live talk)

Christian — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:55:32 +0000

I just did this live talk at AarhusJS – a Javascript meetup in Aarhus (Denmark), my hometown 🙂 The talk extended upon the lessons learned after working with Angular monorepo projects and will teach you about: Creating a good Angular architecture Case study: Monorepo architecture Using Sandboxes/facades Organizing libs and conventions in a monorepo Enforcing …

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The Pragmatic Approach To Pull Requests

Christian — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:41:07 +0000

This video explains a pragmatic approach to pull requests for higher throughput as a software developer.

Why I Moved from Protractor to Cypress and the 7 Steps to Cypress E2E Testing Success

Christian — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 17:00:15 +0000

In this blog post, I will cover why I went from using Protractor to start using Cypress for end-to-end testing. We will look at the flaws in Protractor and how Cypress is fixing them as well as looking into the 7 steps to Cypress e2e testing success. Let’s get started! If you have been working …

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What Is Holding Your Angular Team’s Productivity Back?

Christian — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 17:00:14 +0000

To be as efficient as possible on your Angular team you must realize that the process framework you are using has a bigger impact than the actual tools and technologies you are using. A common problem for engineers is that they get overly focused on geeking out with the toys that they forget about the …

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How To Fix the Most Common Angular Performance Problems Like a Doc

Christian — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 06:00:35 +0000

It can be tempting today to watch a bunch of ng-conf talks and then go straight ahead and implement every tip you find. The problem is that it might not actually improve your Angular apps considerably because you are going the wrong way around the problem. If you start with the solution and try to …

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The Three Building Blocks of Elite Angular Teams

Christian — Tue, 14 May 2019 17:00:31 +0000

One of the core elements I screen for when I choose my clients is the culture. Without the right culture I know we will not be a good fit. In fact, nothing will work as they simply are not compatible with the processes and technology improvements I will try to teach them. It will be …

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How to Implement Continuous Delivery in Highly Regulated Companies

Christian — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 18:00:17 +0000

It is no wonder, that the highest performing companies in the IT industry are also the ones who push the most delivery responsibility on the engineers as a contrast to the classical chain of handovers for ensuring “segregation of duties”. There is an inverse proportional relationship between how much segregation of duties a company enforces and their …

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The Hardcoded, Dynamic and Hybrid Approach in Angular Apps

Christian — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:00:13 +0000

There is a human tendency to start small, then overshooting by doing too much of one thing and then try to find the golden middle way. This is happening in basically everywhere in life, eg. you start to work out, you work out too much and get injured and then you find just the right amount …

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