Christian Heilmann

Presentation creation tip: unpacking bullets

September 18th, 2013

I am currently in Bangalore, India where we are running a whole week of trainings and presentations as part of the Mozilla Evangelism Reps program and JSFoo. One of the sessions in the training was about writing slide decks for your presentations, what to avoid and how to create them fast. One of the things […]

Homeopathic HTML solutions

September 3rd, 2013

Our lives as web developers are amazing. Information flows plentiful and is ever increasing and our quiver of tools to play with ever replenishing. Every week there is some new, groundbreaking thing happening and web technologies are promising amazing access to hardware and making our lives much simpler. Instead of picking and choosing from these […]

Lightning talk: Five tools to create visuals for presentations

August 22nd, 2013

I am currently in Toronto, Canada at a work-week of the websites and developer engagement team in Mozilla. We’re organising a lot of things, plan and also share. In the lightning talk round I got up to share five tools I use to create visuals for presentations. The screencast is available on YouTube. The tools […]

Numbers… and bullshit.

August 20th, 2013

In the last few weeks I was slightly off the grid. I had a quick holiday, I traveled, I enjoyed the “fun” of wireless offers in US hotels. Sometimes that is a good thing. I realised a few things in that time, and discovered a few amazing posts online that very much agreed with what […]

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