Christian Heilmann

All the tools you need to get ready for “talk like a pirate” day

September 17th, 2009

Avast! Saturday is the annual talk like a pirate day and my colleague Tom Croucher has done a tremendous job to create a YQL solution for translation of English to Pirate In essence he used YQL to store a translation data set and allows us to alter it using the update and storage parts of […]

JavaScript and Webservices – my talk at the Ajax Experience Boston 2009

September 16th, 2009

I am currently at the Ajax Experience conference in Boston, MA and yesterday I had my hour of fame giving my talk about “JavaScript and Web Services”. Here are the slides and the audio recording of my talk. Web services and JavaScript You can also check the audio recording of the talk at archive.org In […]

Shipping out to Boston – Ajax Experience and brownbag at your place?

September 11th, 2009

I just came back from a quick holiday (4 days offline, 810 emails and endless stuff in Google reader) so please bear with me if you sent me a message the last few days. Tomorrow I am off to the US again to go to Boston: The actual reason of course is the Ajax Experience […]

Introduction to W3C widgets – my presentation at Brighton Barcamp 4

September 6th, 2009

This saturday I went down to Brighton to attend the fourth Brighton Barcamp. As you are supposed to give a talk and PPK had stopped over on his way to the airport I thought the time right to give a talk about what I learnt about W3C widgets working with PPK and Vodafone the last […]

TTMMHTM: Apptember, fonts to embed, time API, mobile frameworks and charity hacks

September 2nd, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning: There is a new cafe in my street: Font Squirrel has a repository of free fonts to embed via @font-face Apptember is a one-month hackathon, no rules, no business model, no prices – just build some good stuff Man builds house from Lego – now this is dedication. […]

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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