Christian Heilmann

TTMMHTM: Alt attributes, social media tips, security and Germans vs. IE

January 16th, 2010

Things that made me happy this morning: Esteemed colleague Ian Pouncey has a nice little write-up on alt attributes – they are not alt tags, learn it! Three things you need to know about social media strategy has it down to a T. Security in web applications starts like a pretty obvious talk but has […]

Quick hack tutorial – how to build a Google Auto Suggest comparison

January 11th, 2010

This morning I stumbled upon this funny article on predictably irrational which shows the difference between men and women by using Google Autosuggest: Google suggest has been the source of many a joke so far (and there are even collections of those available) and I wondered how hard it would be to write a comparison […]

Loading external content with Ajax using jQuery and YQL

January 10th, 2010

Let’s solve the problem of loading external content (on other domains) with Ajax in jQuery. All the code you see here is available on GitHub and can be seen on this demo page so no need to copy and paste! OK, Ajax with jQuery is very easy to do – like most solutions it is […]

Cleaning up the “CSS only sexy bookmark” demo code

January 8th, 2010

Going through my Google Reader I stumbled upon an article today called Sexy bookmark like effect in pure CSS. Normally when I hear “pure CSS” I skip as 99% of these solutions don’t work with a keyboard and are thus a bad idea to use on the web. However, this one intrigued me as I […]

The Table of Contents script – my old nemesis

January 6th, 2010

One thing I like about – let me rephrase that – one of the amazingly few things that I like about Microsoft Word is that you can generate a Table of Contents from a document. Word would go through the headings and create a nested TOC from them for you: Now, I always like to […]

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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