One of the first things jQuery coders learn is how they can stop the browser from calling the default action of an event. 'return false;' will stop the browser calling the default behaviour: opening the clicked link. But using 'return false;' in that way is not good because this can break everything behind.

When we prepared the relaunch of diginights.com with our new and awesome responsive layout, we needed to resize a bunch of flyer, location and avatar images (~1.000.000). One of our requirements was that we save the images with a new tag so we won’t affect the running application.

To complete my bachelor degree course “Software Engineering” at Heilbronn University, I have written my bachelor thesis with the title 'Develop a system for monitoring, recording and processing of state changes on a work plan'.