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 […]

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200: Building for the web, what's left after rm -rf & 🌊🐴 vs AI What remains after you do a rm -rf? Why do LLMs know about a seahorse emoji? What image formats should you use? How private is your car?
Word is Doomed, Flawed LLM benchmarks, hard sorting and CSS mistakes Spot LLM benchmark flaws, learn why sorting is hard, how to run Doom in Word and how to say "no" like a manager.
30 years of JS, Browser AI, how attackers use GenAI, whistling code Learn how to use AI in your browser and not on the cloud, why AI makes different mistakes than humans and go and whistle up some code!
197: Dunning-Kruger steroids, state of cloud security, puppies>beer

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