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. […]

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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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