11. Februar 2009•1 min read

SoftRay: Dynamic Java Runtime UML Diagram Generation

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Here’s a little sample from my work:

Generiertes UML-Klassendiagramm mit Aufrufabhängigkeiten aus laufenden Java-Programmen

The diagram shows a sample Java programm using four different classes. The class methods are connected via edges indicating call dependencies.

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PostJun 7, 2011

Visualizing Complex Software Systems & Mental Models

Why software engineering needs expressive visual representations to communicate abstract architectures, data flows, and runtime state transitions.

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PostOct 18, 2026

Consent-Free Markov Visitor Flows in Plausible Analytics

How we replaced sessionStorage flow_id tokens and consent banners with stateless document.referrer telemetry and 1st-order Markov visitor flows.

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PostSep 23, 2026

Unified Analytics MCP Server für SEO-, GEO- & AIO-Audits

Wie unser nativer Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server Google Search Console und Plausible Analytics für automatisierte SEO-, GEO- und AIO-Audits vereint.

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PostSep 22, 2026

Zero-JS Mermaid in Astro: Statische Build-Time-SVGs

Warum clientseitiges Mermaid die Core Web Vitals bremst und wie unsere Astro-Build-Time-Pipeline statische SVGs für SEO, GEO und KI-Agenten vorrendert.

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PublicationMay 18, 2013

Towards a bottom-up development of reference architectures for smart energy systems

Smart energy systems seem a promising choice for countries worldwide to realign their power systems to the challenges predicted for the next decades. With the will to participate in this class of systems, many solution providers design custom systems, which sometimes consist of similar parts, but are on the contrary hard to compare to each other. However, a reference describing existing commonalities is needed as a basis for many activities such as regulation design, legislation, national discussion or standardization. This paper illustrates the challenges connected with the creation of reference architectures for smart energy systems, delineates their benefits and suggests a model and method for their incremental, bottom-up development and validation through concrete system architectures.

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PostJan 3, 2012

Revised PHP/XML Blog Implementation

After another year of up-time it was time to revise some parts of the blog implementation. Originally, I did not pay much attention to the file structure. Howev...

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