Christian Heilmann

Dear JavaScript Library Developers…

December 11th, 2006

After spending about three weeks finishing a chapter of the upcoming book introducing JavaScript libraries to non-developers I was quite amazed how tough it is at times to use different libraries. It was frustrating putting together a set of example scripts for several effects for the oddest reasons, which is why I am now publishing […]

Being silly with \”web2.0\” logos

December 6th, 2006

I don’t know what bit me but I had to have a go at some logos of the very much mentioned companies of any web standards talk in the last year: Any other that spring to mind? If you’ve done one, just add it to the spoof20 flickr pool [tags]parody,logo,web2sillyness[/tags]

Easy flickr integration article on 24ways and webkrauts

December 3rd, 2006

Both 24 ways and the German Webkrauts Advent Calendar released my submissions for this year tonight. So, if you ever wanted to know a quick and esy way to integrate flickr photos in your site without a server side component go and have a read. [tags]flickr,integration,24ways,webkrauts,JSON,photos,webdevtrick[/tags]

Inaccessible by design – the dollar bill

November 29th, 2006

Interesting court case in terms of accessibility: A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Treasury Department is violating the law by failing to design and issue currency that is readily distinguishable to blind and visually impaired people. Judge James Robertson, in a ruling on a suit by the American Council of the Blind, ordered […]

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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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