Christian Heilmann

cURL – your “view source” of the web

December 18th, 2009

What follows here is a quick introduction to the magic of cURL. This was inspired by the comment of Bruce Lawson on my 24 ways article: Seems very cool and will help me with a small Xmas project. Unfortunately, you lost me at “Do the curl call”. Care to explain what’s happening there? What is […]

Developer Evangelism book update – new chapter on writing slides, new print version

December 15th, 2009

Yesterday I spent my evening updating the Developer Evangelism Handbook: The updates include: A new chapter on preparing good slide decks for presentations A new, cleaner print version of the book (yes, I battled with Word) The rest remains the same: Developer Evangelism is a new kind of role in IT companies. This is the […]

My five favourite apps to get my job done

December 14th, 2009

I was asked by .net magazine to list my five most used applications at the moment and why not publish my results here, too. So here is what I use to deliver my day to day job as a developer evangelist: Krusader on Linux, Total Commander on Windows or Forklift on Mac – are the […]

Building a (re)search interface for Yahoo, Bing and Google with YQL

December 9th, 2009

If you do a lot of research using web searches can be frustrating. Different search engines have different results, you need to open things in tabs and in general it can be pretty time consuming to find what you need. To make this a bit easier I thought it’d be cool to have an interface […]

Using YQL to load and convert RSS feeds really, really fast.

December 8th, 2009

My esteemed colleague Stoyan Stefanov is currently running an advent calendar (blog post a day) on performance. Today I have a guest slot on his blog showing how you can use YQL to retrieve five RSS feeds much faster than with any other technology. As stated at the end of the article, you could use […]

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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