Christian Heilmann

UK Government says no to upgrading IE6 – who is to blame?

August 5th, 2010

Back in June Dan Frydman of Inigo Media Ltd submitted a petition to the UK government to encourage government departments to upgrade from IE6 and 6223 people signed it. A short time ago we got an answer by her Majesty’s government which was a no – of course. Government says no Disregarding the horrible PR […]

Adding a world globe and location information to your site with YQL

August 1st, 2010

Whilst looking around the open tables in YQL I found a table with earthquake information released by the United States Geological Survey. One thing the RSS feeds returned from that service had was quite a cool picture of Earth with the location as a star: Looking at the source I realised that the image URL […]

The Hackday Toolbox – getting you started faster

July 29th, 2010

Just having spent a lot of time at the amazing open hack day in Bangalore, India I found that most of the questions about starting a hack using Yahoo technology revolved around a few issues: How do I access data on the web/from web services?How do I use YQL from JavaScript or PHP?How do I […]

What the hack? Introducing hacking at the open hack day in Bangalore, India.

July 24th, 2010

I am right now at the open hack day in Bangalore, India and just finished giving the keynote presentation showing people what hacking means and how to present at a hack day: The slides What the hack? The resources I talked about: Yahoo Developer Network for everything about Yahoo offersGoogle Visualisation API for displaying data […]

Newsletter

Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers.

160: Graphs and RAGs explained and VS Code extension hacks Graphs and RAG explained, how AI is reshaping UI and work, how to efficiently use Cursor, VS Code extensions security issues.
159: AI pipelines, 10x faster TypeScript, How to interview How to use LLMs to help you write code and how much electricity does that use? Is your API secure? 10x faster TypeScript thanks to Go!
158: 🕹️ Super Mario AI 🔑 API keys in LLMs 🤙🏾 Vibe Coding Why is AI playing Super Mario? How is hallucinating the least of our worries and what are rules for developing Safety Critical Code?
157: CUDA in Python, Gemini Code Assist and back-dooring LLMs We met with a CUDA expert from NVIDIA about the future of hardware, we look at how AI fails and how to play pong on 140 browser tabs.
156: Enterprise dead, all about Bluesky and React moves on! Learn about Bluesky as a platform, how to build a React App and how to speed up SQL. And play an impossible game in the browser.

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