Who is it writing those articles on a page called “Barooney”? And why are ideas just everything?
My name is Daniel Baron, I am a 32 year old web developer and computer science student, specialized in PHP and WordPress projects. In my spare time I love to develop new ideas and tackle smaller and bigger side projects.
In my opinion, it is crucial to have dreams and ideas of how to further improve the every day work and workflows. Being efficient is the key to success, especially in digital publishing where every second matters to be the number one.
That’s what I want to do: Helping others to be one of the fastest of their kind to outrun their competitors. I am accomplishing this by smart solutions and wiping the need of Copy and Paste from tool to tool. My solutions take advantage of public and private APIs of websites, applications and the preexistent data given to me.
Contact me if you have any workflow to improve! I will be happy to help you out!
Born
08/03/1991
My journey started on a Saturday back in 1991, two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. I grew up in Berlin, having a great time in the sandbox. My parents started early to show me different things and they woke a lot of interests in my still very young ages. I can’t thank them enough for caring so much about me.
Read moreMoving to Bielefeld
09/01/1996
Still being a small boy playing in the sandbox, my parents and I moved to the most beautiful city Bielefeld. I went there for one year to the kindergarten before I started primary school at the Osningschule in 1998. After primary school I went on to secondary school being the Helmholtz-Gymnasium. There, I gained some fairly extended knowledge about software development and a deep understanding of Object Oriented Programming using Java. Also, I was involved in the layout process of the student newspaper and later on in the data acquisition and layout process of the graduation book.
Read moreMy training at the Neue Westfälische
08/01/2011
After leaving the Helmholtz-Gymnasium I started a training as a media designer at the local newspaper Neue Westfälische. There, I had the chance to strengthen my preexistent knowledge of laying out and designing smaller and bigger publications and also keeping up with Corporate Design. My training ended after two and a half year after I noticed that I couldn’t learn anything from my trainer. Even though, we still have a very strong and good relationship! One of our coolest projects was an iBook about our local football club, Arminia Bielefeld. Other projects I were working on were some internal Web-to-Print workflows to improve the communications between different departments.
Read moreMoving back to Berlin
02/01/2014
After finishing my training I moved back to Berlin to work at Geil,Danke! Over there I have learned basic (and later on extended) skills in project management and in using the Git version control management. Even though my contract didn’t last that long, I had the time of my life, so many new impressions and learnings in terms of how to write good and maintainable software in PHP and Node.js. I had my first real WordPress project over there, the website from the Mumuvitch Disko Orkestar. On the other hand I was working on the Portier server, a Direct Entitlement Server for the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Soon after my colleagues and I were forced to leave the company, my boss asked me if I was interested in a job at Axel Springer…
Read moreAxel Springer and a lot of music
12/01/2014
I was working for the Axel Springer Mediahouse Berlin as a freelance web developer until they decided to officially start the relaunch of their three music websites rollingstone.de, metal-hammer.de and musikexpress.de. In December ’14, I got employed and together with the Berlin- and Bielefeld-based agency Palasthotel, we relaunched the first of the platforms in May ’15.
Read morePUBKON talk about Web-to-Print workflows
04/24/2015
As a side project, I was working on a WordPress plugin, which allowed exporting WordPress posts to an InDesign document. The PUBKON – a German conference about publishing – came by and I asked them if they wanted a talk about a Web-to-Print workflow including WordPress as one of the biggest Content Management Systems of the world. Of course, they agreed! So I went to Cologne. And gave my first talk to an expert audience. I guess I should have started with an easier audience, but hey: We’re thinking big, right?
Read moreMoving back to Bielefeld
08/29/2015
After my talk, there were so many requests which I couldn’t handle with my day-to-day job at the Axel Springer Mediahouse Berlin. Also, they were facing a very solid WordPress instance with a very rich and extended feature set, so it was okay for me to leave them with Palasthotel. Even though I quit in May, I was working with them on-site until late August, when I moved back to Bielefeld.
Read moreIDUG Berlin #30
10/15/2015
While I was trying to handle most of my clients, Heike Burch was one of the clients who really wanted to understand the technical backgrounds of the workflow I was planning for her website “Für Freunde“. Talking about her project started soon after the PUBKON and is still ongoing. You may read about it here. So it came to the point that we had a working setup and we presented it at the InDesign User Group Berlin.
Read moreIDUG Hamburg
12/03/2015
Since the last IDUG event, Heike and I were asked to come to so many other events and so, the next event we visited was the InDesign User Group Hamburg…
Read moreSwiss Publishing Days
11/09/2016
Once again, Heike and me gave a talk about her “Für Freunde” project at the Swiss Publishing Days.
Read moreJoined CCS GmbH
01/01/2017
Working for CCS GmbH allows me to run Schoolm8 under a well-known name and adds more security to the whole system due to it being maintained by a company rather than a single person.
Read moreStarted studying CS and Text Technology and Computer Linguistics
10/09/2017
Starting my studies allows me to use my time efficiently learning new things and working in parallel. Things I learn in the university can be directly applied to projects I work on.
Read moreBack to school
02/01/2019
I was a supply teacher for a few months at my former high school. I wanted to find out if being a teacher would be an option for me. And to be honest, it is not. But I am grateful for the possibility given to me to test my skills in that field.
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