Christian Heilmann

Sneak peek: Mozilla Evangelism Reps program – how to create a screencast

March 29th, 2012

This is a small preview of a new thing we are working on in Mozilla. The Evangelism Reps program involves Mozillians getting help, mentoring and training to become public speakers, start blogging and running local events. All of this will be open and available on the Wiki. So here is a sneak peek. How to […]

Are free apps evil?

March 26th, 2012

Lately there has been quite some debate about “free services” and what they mean to their users. A lot of it started with the excellent article “Don’t be a free user” by Maciej Ceglowski which described a few unpleasant truths: When you use a free service, you are the product that gets soldThis means in […]

The web is the platform – presentation at MDN hackday in NYC

March 25th, 2012

Yesterday we went to New Work City for the MDN hack day and I kicked off the day with a talk about HTML5, the opportunities it brings for developers and what people can play with during the day. The slides are available and I recorded a screencast of me presenting them. The screencast is available […]

[watching] Creating responsive HTML5 touch interfaces

March 16th, 2012

In another episode of “things Chris watched in the gym and you should, too” here is a great video from the BayJax event series normally held in the Yahoo offices in Sunnyvale, California. In this presentation Stephen Woods (@ysaw) of Flickr talks about touch interactions and how they used them in the tablet version of […]

“The foundation of the web platform” is very confusing

March 15th, 2012

Two days ago Alex Komoroske, Product Manager of Chrome released a series of videos about the Web Platform accompanied by links to some of the demos and the standards and proposals it uses. I was excited about this as in a world of shiny HTML5 demos and lock-in examples (“you need this browser to see […]

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