Christian Heilmann

Don’t buy the pig in the wig or “why most JavaScript tutorials still suck”

January 15th, 2007

I think we all have realised it by now JavaScript is a hot topic again and if you know your stuff and play your cards right you can make money and gain fame with publications (books, articles, magazine submissions) and conducting trainings and workshops. This is grand and there is no reason why JavaScript should […]

Formcamp, ho!

January 12th, 2007

I am leaving for Munich tomorrow to take Mike Davies to the FormCamp UnConference in the German Yahoo! office. Let’s hope the “adverse weather conditions” reported by BA don’t get us stranded in Heathrow and we have a chance to add our expertise to build an accessible online form framework.

How to write a proper CV and get hired as a web developer

January 9th, 2007

Disclaimer: the following tips are primarily for web developers (coders of HTML/CSS/JavaScript and some server side language), they will probably not work for other professions involved in web development. The following is the view of the author, Christian Heilmann and does not represent the view of Yahoo! as a company. I am once again in […]

12 new colleagues wanted!

January 4th, 2007

I know some people get sick of hearing about it, but the company that allows me to live in London luxury is needing 12 more web developers for the London(8 people) and Paris(4 people) office! The official job spec for Web Developer in Yahoo You need top notch front-end skills (i.e. very strong HTML, CSS […]

Unobtrusive JavaScript now available as a book

January 3rd, 2007

My rather successful self training course on unobtrusive JavaScript is now also available in book and ebook format at lulu.com. The print version has two extra chapters and overhauled code examples. check out the ‘store’ at lulu.com

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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