Christian Heilmann

Seven Reasons for Code Bloat – My presentation for the WSG London Meetup

May 23rd, 2007

Here are the slides from my talk at the Webstandards Group meetup earlier. A massive Thanks to Stuart Colville for organizing the event, Steve Faulkner for his presentation on screen readers and accessibility and everyone who attended and bought me drinks afterwards. new Listen to the podcast HTML version of the notes PDF version of […]

How to make your web applications accessible – the human way

May 20th, 2007

One of my biggest annoyances when talking about accessibility and web development is the argument of some developers that what they develop are web applications and not web sites which is why they don’t need to care about accessibility. The arrogance of that statement aside it also does not make any sense whatsoever. If anything, […]

Web Developer and Professional (Part 2 of 2)

May 19th, 2007

In the first part of this I wrote about three aspects of a professional web developer: not to overrate your knowledge, for it is fixed in time, making sure you share what you know and never ever consider yourself indispensable. It is not only what but also how you deliver In terms of delivery of […]

Have I got tabs for you!

May 17th, 2007

One of the guys I keep dragging into the limelight of the web (the last time with an A List Apart article on font resize monitoring) is my colleague Lawrence Carvalho. This time he has an amazingly versatile tab interface based on the YUI on offer. There are many tabs solutions out there, including my […]

Working in the valley for the next 2-3 weeks

May 16th, 2007

I will fly to San Francisco on Monday to work in Santa Clara and stay in Sunnyvale for the next 2-3 weeks. So far my stops beside working are: Go to Stanford and give a talk on web development (invitation by John Foliot) Visit the Flock offices to talk shop and pick up schwag. Anything […]

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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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