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. [tags]Yahoo,unconference,barcamp,formcamp,munich,muenchen,mikedavies[/tags]

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 [tags]unobtrusive,scripting,javascript,accessibility,bestpractice,webdevtrick,javascriptbook,ebooks[/tags]

Newsletter

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Don't stop thinking, AI Slop vs. OSS Security, rolling your own S3 Despite AI you still need to think, Bitter lessons from building AI products,  AI Slop vs. OSS security and pointer pointer…
200: Building for the web, what's left after rm -rf & 🌊🐴 vs AI What remains after you do a rm -rf? Why do LLMs know about a seahorse emoji? What image formats should you use? How private is your car?
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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