Christian Heilmann

RSS2map – a Placemaker/Yahoo Maps mashup generator script

July 14th, 2009

This morning I went to the Telegraph Media Group to talk about GeoMaker and Placemaker. The main thing they wanted to know was how to place an RSS feed that does not have any Geo data on a map and how to style it. To make this easier I created rss2map, a demo PHP script […]

Did Digg and YouTube just spell the end of Internet Explorer 6?

July 14th, 2009

In the last few days the blogosphere was abuzz and Twiter a-twitter about Digg pondering dropping support for IE6 and now YouTube showing an ‘update your IE as we won’t support you in the future’ message. While this is great and I am happy about it I really doubt though that this has a massive […]

Soho is so hot right now – huge fire in Soho, London

July 10th, 2009

I just thought my laptop was broken as it was smelling of burning plastic in the office, but it turned out to be a massive fire some streets down in Soho, London (that is not Soho,NYC). I am very impressed with the job the firefighters have done to stop the fire from spreading. It also […]

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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