Christian Heilmann

Liberté, Accessibilité and Securité – that was Paris Web 2009

October 13th, 2009

Last week I went to Paris, France to speak at a Yahoo Developer Network event and Paris Web. Paris Web is a web development, design and accessibility conference that runs for the fourth year (I think) and I’ve been speaking there for the third time. My presentation – basic housekeeping Originally I planned to speak […]

Introduction to Yahoo Open Applications

October 11th, 2009

Last week I was in Paris for a Yahoo Developer Network evening and Paris Web and one of the talks I gave was an introduction to Yahoo Open Applications. These are applications that you can embed in the Yahoo homepage or My Yahoo and thus allow you to reach millions of users – or extend […]

TTMMHTM: Piano hacks, PHP and Ruby secured, Leisure Suit Larry in Canvas

October 9th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning. Changing a staircase into a massive piano makes 60% more people use it instead of the escalators – fun is the best way to make people use things. You can do vocoding with a Piano YQL meets SPARQL Kayak releases trends data – sadly enough not as a […]

TTMMHTM: YUI3, OCR scanning by Google and why frontenders matter!

September 30th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning: YUI 3 is out of beta – the changes to YUI needed to run the new Yahoo homepage, smaller, faster, less code to write. Google Docs now has an experimental OCR conversion API – post an image to the API endpoint and get a text version as a […]

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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