Christian Heilmann

Yummy – add del.icio.us boomarks to your wordpress blog with a simple plugin

August 1st, 2007

Ok, time to release another plugin for WordPress. This time I wanted to easily implement del.icio.us bookmarks into blog posts without having to use a server-side component and add to the already slow loading of this blog. The solution was to use JavaScript and load the bookmark data only when you request it. This means […]

YUI 2.3.0 released!

August 1st, 2007

Finally I can announce the 2.3.0 release of the Yahoo! User Interface Library. Internally we had a chance to play with some of the library news already and there is a lot of cool stuff to see: An experimental image loader utility that is much like my http overhead delay on steroids A rich text […]

Looking for inline code editors

July 30th, 2007

Hmm, now here is an interesting task. I was asked to find an inline “code editor” which means a script or a flash widget or a (shudder) applet that allows for editing of code (PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) inside an application. There are a lot of inline Rich Text editors and even some WYSIWYG editors, […]

Show love to the Module Pattern

July 24th, 2007

Back in February 2006 I declared my love for the object literal explaining that it is a great way of making sure your scripts don’t interfere with others as all you expose to the world is a single object name. Instead of function init(){} function doStuff(){} var myMessage = ‘oi, gerrof!’;function init(){} function doStuff(){} var […]

Planning a \”Make me a speaker\” event

July 20th, 2007

As some of you know, Meri Williams has set up a Wiki for people who want to become speakers at summits and events at http://www.makemeaspeaker.com/ (currently spammed :-() and I am a very big fan of the idea (even pimped it in my Highland Fling Talk). However, except for some minor changes to the Wiki […]

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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