Christian Heilmann

Join us Tuesday to learn from Paypal and Yahoo how to win $160k!

July 15th, 2010

Paypal together with some other partners are currently hosting a developer competition with prizes of over $160,000. For more information check out the Paypal X challenge web site. To give you more information about the challenge and to introduce you to the Paypal and Yahoo APIs to be used in your submissions we invite developers […]

Analyzing the FIFA2010 worldcup with Guardian Data and YQL

July 14th, 2010

Breaking news: The Guardian once again involved in committing a data awesome! As before, the UK newspaper graced developers with a really cool piece of information published on the web: all the World Cup 2010 statistics as an Excel Sheet. Now, the easiest way to play with this data is to use YQL, so I […]

Webstylemag – my trip into non-technical blogging

July 9th, 2010

When my esteemed colleague Ara Pehlivanian told me that he plans to set up a web development lifestyle magazine called http://webstylemag.com and asked me for participation I was reluctant at first as it seems a bit inbred. However, Ara had done such a nice job and I remember having had such good feedback to my […]

Paypal and Yahoo developer challenge – over $160,000 in prizes

July 9th, 2010

I am right now working with Paypal on setting up a developer evening in the next few days to talk people through Paypal and Yahoo’s APIs and systems to build something cool for the Paypal X Developer Challenge. All in all the contest has prizes of $160,000 with $100,000 being the main prize and $10,000 […]

TTMMHTM: Accessibility personas, prettier images, Bieber in Korea and lots more!

July 7th, 2010

Things that made me happy this morning The Aegis project released a few Creative Commons licensed personas with disabilities for UX testingFamous Sci-Fi quotes as infographics – missing “aren’t you a little short for a Stormtrooper?”Google translate doesn’t support the Netherlands in the World Cup but the adult industry does – great viral by Bobbi […]

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Don't stop thinking, AI Slop vs. OSS Security, rolling your own S3 Despite AI you still need to think, Bitter lessons from building AI products,  AI Slop vs. OSS security and pointer pointer…
200: Building for the web, what's left after rm -rf & 🌊🐴 vs AI What remains after you do a rm -rf? Why do LLMs know about a seahorse emoji? What image formats should you use? How private is your car?
Word is Doomed, Flawed LLM benchmarks, hard sorting and CSS mistakes Spot LLM benchmark flaws, learn why sorting is hard, how to run Doom in Word and how to say "no" like a manager.
30 years of JS, Browser AI, how attackers use GenAI, whistling code Learn how to use AI in your browser and not on the cloud, why AI makes different mistakes than humans and go and whistle up some code!
197: Dunning-Kruger steroids, state of cloud security, puppies>beer

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