Christian Heilmann

wp-super-cache cached too far for me (and others)

November 8th, 2007

Having just upgraded this wordpress to the new one I wanted to have the whole goodness and installed wp-cache to have static pages of my posts. However it seems that the newly released wp-super-cache plugin for WordPress had some nasty vulnerabilities. The first to report that to me was Chris Messina on twitter followed by […]

Dear API Developers, this is what I would like to have

November 7th, 2007

Jonathan Boutelle of Slideshare reacted to my slideshare show widget and liked how I hacked around the API by re-using the RSS feed. He now asked in the comments what I’d like to see from an API. Well, here goes: Allow for “hackable” URLs, with definition of the output. Flickr and Del.icio.us are good examples, […]

Sending objects as parameters – good or bad?

November 7th, 2007

One of the differences I keep seeing in functions and methods lately is that people seem to go away from the strict pattern of expecting parameters in a certain form. If you look back some years you might remember functions like the following: function doLayerFloat(id,start,end,direction,speed,fade,whatelse,Iforgot){ ... } This, at least to me is rather annoying […]

Sky is dishing out £10k for widgets using their RSS feeds

November 6th, 2007

Well, in a competition, not just directly. I like the idea of Sky News’ Developer Competition where they offer all in all £10k in prize money for widget and badge implementations of the content of their RSS feeds. Talented developers can use the feeds to create their own applications. The brains with the best ideas […]

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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