Christian Heilmann

Free Excerpt of the new book on the YUI blog

April 30th, 2007

Just before leaving the office today I uploaded a chapter excerpt of the new book Web Development Solutions: Ajax, APIs, Libraries, and Hosted Services Made Easy to the YUI blog. Get your free copy from the YUI blog

Barcamp Paris on 12th of May

April 29th, 2007

I am going to participate in the Barcamp 11 in Paris on 12th and 13th of May, talking most likely about online identity and generally meeting people again that I met at the Braillenet conference earlier this year. This is going to be fun, I like going to Paris, especially as you don’t need to […]

Powerpoint Karaoke Night

April 24th, 2007

Today I went to the Powerpoint Karaoke Night in Farringdon’s “The Bear” pub. Whilst very successful in the US, the crowd attracted by this instance of the PPTKN was much like going to a lunch break at the office. All in all it was 6 people who all took on the challenge, 3 of which […]

35 x 5 – 35 Designers, 5 Questions

April 20th, 2007

The often-seen in my referer log Smashingmagazine spent some time asking 35 Designers 5 questions each about what their favourite CSS trick is, what font they like to use and so on. The outcome of the survey called 35×5 is an interesting read and it seems that despite the raging “which font” debate, we’re all […]

European Open Hack Day June 16th and 17th in Alexandra Palace, London

April 19th, 2007

Be there or be annoyed by lots of tweets and blog posts about it. Read about the details over at the official hack day page http://hackday.org/ and I am very much looking forward to seeing you there. 16th and 17th of June 2007 Alexandra Palace, North London (ice skates optional) Presented by Yahoo! and BBC […]

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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