Christian Heilmann

Full Frontal 2011 – some notes

November 15th, 2011

Last Friday I attended Full Frontal without speaking, which was a welcome change in my schedule. Originally I didn’t mean to go at all but some people dropping out meant that I had to go. Seeing that I love Brighton and have truckloads of respect for Remy and Julie I went down there and I […]

Fun with 3D transforms and rollovers – kittens in space

November 14th, 2011

Lately it seems, CSS3 rollover showcases are getting a new revival. The massive collection of effects here made quite the rounds on Twitter the last weeks. As I wanted to play with 3D transforms a bit more, I thought I do a quick demo of how to use them to create a lovely rollover effect […]

How to be a kick-ass speaker – MozCamp 2011

November 13th, 2011

I am currently at MozCamp in Berlin and my job was to entice all the contributors to the Mozilla project to get out of their shell and start speaking at events about all the great stuff they do. It seems people liked what I had to say, so here are the slides and the audio […]

Speaking at Velocity Europe on performance

November 10th, 2011

I just got back from Berlin where I spoke at Velocity Europe as a Mozilla representative about browser performance. Instead of smothering and boring the audience with browser internals and numbers that will be outdated within a few nightly releases I took a more holistic approach to performance. Browsers should make everyboby perform better and […]

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