Christian Heilmann

Want to work for Yahoo! in Santa Clara?

February 28th, 2007

Again, a drive to find colleagues to work for the company that pays my rent and outrageous lifestyle: If you are a web developer based in the Bay Area and you’d like to work for Yahoo! on one of our fastest growing and demanding products, have a go and contact me. We are looking for […]

Automatically converting hCards with geo data to Google Maps with hcard2gmap

February 23rd, 2007

just something I’ve been playing around with for my upcoming book. The script reads all hCards in the document, checks if they have geo location and hides those. It then creates a new Google Map and sets markers with popups showing the rest of the address data when you click them. Check out hcard2gmap [tags]Googlemaps,maps,mashups,hcard,microformats,javascript,hack,demo[/tags]

Shameless online telemarketers

February 22nd, 2007

This just boggled my mind. Someone emailed me about onlinetools.org, where I obviously don’t sell anything or care much about SEO: Got an email with an obvious SEO tools url, let’s say www.OMGFABSEOWOW.com My answer: thanks, I make sure people learn you send out unsolicited emails. Their answer: After taking a look at your website […]

And now for some light entertainment

February 20th, 2007

I earned myself some time out, so I trolled youtube for the worst music videos: Armi & Danny: I wanna love you tender A classic, nothing more to add. Carl Lewis: Break it Up Grace Jones really let herself go. Hurra Torpedo: Total eclipse of the heart Ok, I really want to see those guys […]

Talking about Ajax and Accessibility at Abilitynet

February 19th, 2007

Today I was parachuted in to Abilitynet to give a quick talk about Ajax and accessibility as their original presenter couldn’t make it. I had given the same talk in German last year and updated some of the information on it before going there. Showing off the new and cool Yahoo! Accessibility Stakeholder Group shirt […]

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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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