Christian Heilmann

The vanilla web diet – keynote at Anglebrackets in Las Vegas

April 9th, 2013

I am currently in Las Vegas for the Anglebrackets conference and after suffering a American country music festival in my hotel I got up this morning to deliver the keynote, talking about using web standards and approaching web development in a simpler fashion. Here is the abstract. Web development as it is right now suffers […]

Setting disruptors to stun – keynote at HTML5 Devcon in San Francisco

April 2nd, 2013

Update: Video and Transcript are now available I just got off stage at the HTML5 Developer conference in San Francisco, California. The massive ballroom was packed with folk and my task was to set the mood for the day and be inspiring. Turns out it seems it worked well. The abstract I submitted was this: […]

CSS3 – know your arsenal – a show and tell at Posscon

March 29th, 2013

In the afternoon of the second day of Posscon I was asked to give a talk on the benefits of CSS3. Instead of having a presentation I put together an interactive slide deck with direct Q&A. Here is the recording of the session. The slides are posted here and you can see a screencast of […]

“Is open still enough?” – Keynote at Posscon 2013 at Columbia, SC

March 28th, 2013

I just delivered the Keynote at Posscon in Columbia, South Carolina talking about the history of Mozilla, open source now and how Firefox OS is ready to disrupt a very closed market. Abstract In the open source world we know why we put our time and efforts into the larger goals we try to achieve. […]

A quick update and screencast of the Mozilla HTML5 slide system

March 24th, 2013

After messing around with it for some of my latest presentations, I just updated the Mozilla HTML5 presentation template (on github). It has been a while since I did that, so here are some new features: Smooth transition from slide to slideBlockquotes with cite linkNotes functionalitySmooth inner-slide bullet navigation (greyed out to full)Option to suppress […]

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