Christian Heilmann

Five CSS tricks that repeatedly saved my a**e, why need more?

January 22nd, 2007

Getting a lot of hits from the 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without post on Smashingmagazine I realised I don’t really need a lot of those (although a lot are cool). Instead let me share with you CSS techniques that saved my a*** whenever I had to create a layout using CSS or proving those […]

First .net podcast out

January 22nd, 2007

So you expect me to talk? Check the first .net podcast and hear Paul Boag (as the host), Dan Oliver, Gary Marshall, Andy Budd and me talk about the iPhone, hiring web developers, HTML emails and IE7.

Event Driven Web Application Design Article on the YUI Blog

January 17th, 2007

What started as a blog post grew out to be an article for ALA or Thinkvitamin but then ended up on the official blog of the YUI. In the article I am explaining a different approach than using frameworks or standard web design methodologies to create web applications. Instead of concentrating on the technology or […]

A great example of good marketing email writing

January 16th, 2007

I just ordered another set of Moo Cards (those little business cards you might have gotten from geeks at @media or similar occasions) and got the following mail as a confirmation: Hello Christian I’m Little MOO - the bit of software that will be managing your order with us. It will shortly be sent to […]

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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