Christian Heilmann

A short developer evangelism handbook update

August 13th, 2013

Following a few discussions I had with the developer evangelism reps group lately, I just added a small update to the Developer Evangelism Handbook. In the “Work with your own company” I added a new section called Balance your personal and official channels. This one gives advice why it is not a great plan to […]

Giving a talk is cool – getting a song made from your talk is cooler!

August 13th, 2013

Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to speak at Beyond Tellerand in Germany. My talk Fixing the mobile web (video on Vimeo) was a passionate session on how the web is not only for the rich with the coolest, newest devices, but for everyone. Marc Thiele, the organiser of Beyond Tellerand, is not only […]

Playing with Leapmotion for accessibility

July 31st, 2013

Today I spent a few hours in the Leap motion offices talking about the web possibilities of this cool new technology. On the way back we had an internet connectivity outage, so it was a great opportunity to start playing with some of the ideas. Here is a video of what I am working on. […]

Flipping the image when accessing the laptop camera with getUserMedia

July 19th, 2013

This is one of my bugbears: when I see demos or tools that access the camera with getUserMedia and the image is “the wrong way around”. Say I sit in front of this computer, and lean slightly to my left. If you just use getUserMedia and connect the stream to a video element, this is […]

Senchacon 2013 – HTML5 and beyond

July 18th, 2013

I am currently in cloudy and hot Florida for SenchaCon 2013 and was asked to give a talk about “cool new technology and upcoming standards”. Instead, I gave a talk about using already available modern technology and thus making the future the today. I published the screencast on YouTube. The slides are online, too, but […]

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