Christian Heilmann

Conjuring YUI from thin air

August 2nd, 2008

I love the YUI loader as it is a great way of including the YUI on the fly. The coolest bits about it is that it gets the YUI components from the CDN and knows the dependencies so I don’t have to. So if I need the YUI for something, I don’t need extra SCRIPT […]

The missing native DOM methods – according to my course attendees

July 31st, 2008

During the course I am currently giving in Sunnyvale on basics of the DOM and progressive enhancement I asked the attendees which methods seem to be missing in the native DOM implementation and this is what we came up with: createLink(url,text) – a shortcut method to create a link with a text node inside – […]

Agent YUI – don’t miss these YUI tutorials

July 27th, 2008

My esteemed colleage Klaus Komenda seems to spend as much time as I do writing cool stuff for the masses, but somehow he doesn’t crop up in a lot of to-read lists. For shame, I say, pulling up my trousers until they reach my armpits (yes, I watched Simpsons) and I point you, esteemed reader […]

Training new developers in the valley – Day 3

July 27th, 2008

On the third day we went deeper into the oddities of the DOM and how to access and create content in the current document. One thing I realized very fast is that teaching DOM before the days of FireBug was much easier – you can lead the group from property to property and method to […]

Training new developers in the valley – Day 2

July 25th, 2008

On the second day of the current Juku program we covered the “read” sections of DOM scripting: attributes, node properties and how to navigate around the document with a certain node as the starting point (nextSibling,previousSibling,parentNode,childNodes…). We also talked in detail about nodeTypes and how to recognize what is an element and what is 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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