Christian Heilmann

Automatically turning a text into a link

December 22nd, 2006

While twittering away, Fizzy asked for a solution to link every instance of a word to a certain web site in JavaScript (originally he wanted a CSS solution). So here is a solution: How to link different words to web sites automatically in JavaScript Enjoy.

18 Questions for Niqui Merret and Aral Balkan on Flash and Accessibility

December 21st, 2006

I was asked by some German friends if I knew something about Flash and Accessibility for a German podcast, and I said yes, but most of it is hearsay and some testing some years ago. I remembered however the dynamic Flash Duo Aral Balkan and Niqui Merret from BarCamp and other social occassions and offered […]

New Podcast on WebdevRadio

December 20th, 2006

Michael Kimsal of WebdevRadio asked me about an hour about almost everything I have done to write Beginnning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax and the YUI. You can check the podcast on WebdevRadio and if I sound tired then it is because we had to do the interview twice as the first time around […]

Podcast by Proxy

December 19th, 2006

Earlier tonight (before we ended up with free drinks and a Chinese meal in Chinatown) I recorded a podcast for the German site Technikwürze which was a podcast with a twist. Instead of being interested in what I had to say (be fair – who would?) the maintainers wanted to have some expert information about […]

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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