Condé Nast Tech Blog

Never underestimate the added complexity of a coding pattern compared to it's benefit. Always check if it's worth it or not. There are no extra points for a high number of patterns used. - 2017-08-21

The team responsible for development and maintenance of the websites of our German magazines and securing the office against nerf attacks is searching for another team member. If you are an experienced web developer with a passion for online publishing and modern user interfaces, this is your chance! - 2016-06-27

Monkey Island, Sam & Max und Indiana Jones - Anfang der 90er Jahre war definitiv die Zeit des Adventure-Genres. Aber war es das Gummihuhn oder doch der Fisch, der einem geholfen hat die Brücke bei Monkey Island zu passieren? - 2016-06-24

Fashion and digital together are brilliant. Only fashion in this modern world can't live by itself anymore. More fashion businesses are bringing new technology to each stage of the consumer and using dynamic data in more creative ways to capture and convert customers online. They are making money from their editorial content, their blogs and their social media channels, ensuring that they make the most from engaged readers. In whatever way, an IT still sounds really complicated and exorbitant for the fashion business. DevOps must be the answer for that. - 2016-05-23

„Direttissima“ describes the phenomena of the alpinism when you scale the summit directly without any detours. The regular way is the path of least resistance, but the walker of a direttissima is facing the challenges of the mountain. The new media and publishing conference in Munich (#dico16) was the next event on my agenda after the „Digital Media Camp“. - 2016-04-27

Barcamps, Hackathons and Meetups – the offer of collaborative events for people that are interested in the same topics is big in Munich nowadays. Several colleagues of our development team at Condé Nast Germany took part already and we would like to share our experiences with you. - 2016-03-18

In many companies there is a communication problem between developers and other departments like Editorial, Sales, Marketing etc. Very often, new processes are established that should solve the problem, but in very few cases this really works. What I experienced at Condé Nast is not a change of processes that brings the desired effect, but another approach... - 2016-03-01

The times of big old CMS and ECMS monsters are long gone. Small and flexible CMS systems are the road to take into an ever changing future. Affordable and agile instead of overloaded with uneccessary features and static. - 2016-02-28