Christian Heilmann

flickr trackr – my first attempt and dabbling with the iPhone/iPod touch

February 14th, 2008

I was pretty amazed when I got a thick envelope the other day from Apple. Steven Woolcock, the Safari Evangelist in Europe sent me an iPod touch to play with as I complained about not being able to test something he told me about. Now, as every other 12 year old boy on a sugar […]

Soon the YUI will be two years old, time for a bash, isn’t it?

February 12th, 2008

If you are in or around London on the 26th of February 2008, come to the De Hem’s pub in Covent Garden to celebrate two years of YUI. There’ll be cake, beers, videos from the YUI bash in the US, a quick update by me and schwag to take home. Sign up to the London […]

Flickr’s secret revealed!

February 12th, 2008

Dan Coulter spilled the beans on the developer list: On Feb 12, 2008 1:53 AM, {removed} wrote: Can some one tell me , in which Progaming language has flickr been developed PHP and can we get the clone Highly unlikely how can we develop the same application line this in php….... Hire a world class […]

Retrieving del.icio.us tags for the current URL with JavaScript

February 11th, 2008

If you scroll down the older entries of this blog you’ll see that there is a new feature, namely a box that shows reader tags and a link to del.icio.us: This is not a WordPress plugin (although it would be easy to make and i’d be amazed if it hadn’t been done) but pure JavaScript. […]

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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