Christian Heilmann

On controversial slides, talk distribution and lack of context

October 29th, 2011

My life lately revolves mostly about going to conferences and presenting. This gives you an interesting insight into how they are run, how other people present and what impact it has on the audiences. I’ve done this for a while and I think I am pretty good at it. I also see other people who […]

Frontrow 2011 – the future of the web is your responsibility, too.

October 28th, 2011

Last week I was in Krakow, Poland to attend the Frontrow conference delivered a presentation on attitude towards new technology and inspiration in the tech community. Frontrow was interesting as it was a mixture of Barcamp and conference. On each day you had a few talks, followed by lunch and 2 hours of “open sessions” […]

HTML5 101 – a introductory talk at Sabre in Krakow, Poland

October 26th, 2011

In my ongoing crusade to talk about awesome new web technologies outside my comfort zone I just spent a few hours at Sabre in Krakow, Poland talking to a room jam-packed with about 100 internal and mostly Java developers. They asked me to give an overview of HTML5 as there are a lot of requests […]

The prestige of being a web developer – Fronteers 11

October 7th, 2011

The audio recording of the talk is available on archive.org. Transcript Today I will talk about about perceptions and ways how we as web developers can make our lives better. I got inspired to do so by a great movie called the prestige. The prestige is full of amazing actors and is a twist-and-turn drama […]

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