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 [tags]friendsofed,javascript,libaries,YUI,book,free,ebook[/tags]

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 […]

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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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