Christian Heilmann

De-bricking yourself – starting out as a speaker

September 5th, 2012

At the Reasons to be Creative conference I was asked to give an extra 5 minute talk for Ubelly at their Soapbox stage about some subject. As I had given the keynote before and I was rather excited about it I thought I share my thoughts on how to become a good speaker and get […]

Bricking and De-Bricking it at Reasons to Be Creative Brighton 2012

September 5th, 2012

I am right now on the train back to London after attending the Reasons to be Creative conference in Brighton, England. How was it? Short answer: splendid, indeed. Can has keynote? When the organisers approached me to speak after giving a talk at the reasons to be appy conference I wasn’t quite sure if I’d […]

Playing the blame game?

September 1st, 2012

I just recently started using the Nexus7 I got at Google IO in earnest and thought I have a go at some 3D games. After continuously failing to download the larger than 1GB racing game I bought on the Android market I thought I’d go lower and got myself Running Fred, a very addictive running […]

How to disable Java in all your browsers on OSX (screencast)

August 29th, 2012

OK, once again we have a massive security hole in browsers based on Java. As there are luckily not many things on the web that still need Java (and I pity you if you have to use applets still) here is a screencast how to turn it off in all your browsers on OSX. You […]

Mozilla, the web and you at Campus Party Europe

August 25th, 2012

I just got to edit and upload the slides and screencast of my talk at campusparty europe, so here you go: Campusparty are live streaming and recording the talks. Here is mine but sadly enough there is quite a chunk of audio missing and it seems To be out of sync later on. I also […]

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