I am spending this week explaining lots of press folk what the Geeksphone is about. I just got excited like a puppy on sugar rush about unpacking mine, after waiting for a long time to get it internally at Mozilla. See the unpacking photo set on Flickr Posting this on Twitter and Facebook caused quite […]

The lovely people of Devs love bacon today released the video of my talk Helping or Hurting and I am blown away by the quality of it. Really TED style stuff. Christian Heilmann – Helping or hurting? from BACON: things developers love on Vimeo. I had given the talk slightly more focused before at the […]

There is nothing more frustrating than things going wrong without you knowing what happened. Things breaking with a very obvious reason are not as bad. Say you drop your phone and you see the display smashed – there is no question why the touch interface doesn’t work any more. But when nothing happens and everything […]

Today I gave a talk at the State of the browser 3 event in London, England. The Slides are here, a screencast (with bad audio) is on YouTube and here are the notes. Abstract: When the web was defined as an idea it was based on the principle of independence of hardware, global location, prosperity […]

“Setting disruptors to stun” was the keynote at HTML5 Devcon in San Francisco in April 2013. In it, I am explaining why we can not directly compare native and web apps and that the technical differences are not really the main issue. The main problem is that native apps follow a very old principle of […]