Christian Heilmann

If you are in California, don\’t miss the Yahoo! hack day

September 25th, 2006

Yahoo! Sunnyvale is hosting a [link:http://hackday.org/,Hack Day] on Friday and Saturday (29th/30th of September 2006). It is a great opportunity to get to know the people behind Yahoo! products and get in-depth training about the [link:http://developer.yahoo.com/yui,YUI] and the other APIs. [link:http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/09/22/yahoo-devday-schedule/,Check out the schedule] to see who and what you are going to miss if […]

Event Handling versus Event Delegation

September 24th, 2006

If you ever wondered how flexible web applications with hundreds of objects that need event handling are built, the trick behind it is called “Event Delegation”. I didn’t come up with it, and it is nothing new either, but as some people seem to get confused when the term crops up, I’ve written a quick […]

Seven simple examples for the YUI Panel Widget

September 21st, 2006

Following some feedback of a training session in several offices over the last few weeks, I’ve put together [link:http://icant.co.uk/sandbox/yuipanel/,some simple examples] on how to implement the [link:http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/container/panel/,Yahoo! User Interface Library Panel Widget]. Of course, this cannot replace the [link:http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/docs/container/YAHOO.widget.Panel.html,real documentation], which has a lot more important information, but I hope it’ll get you going and […]

Search now with AutoComplete

September 20th, 2006

I just enhanced the site search here with an autocomplete option using the [link:http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/autocomplete/,YUI AutoComplete Widget]. Just type in anything and you’ll get a list of post titles to choose from. Selecting the title automatically gets you to the entry. I had this dynamic first, using a PHP script to poll the database, but it […]

Give this blog a new home…

September 15th, 2006

Seeing that I spend too much time fixing and maintaining the server for this, I am now looking for someone who can offer me sponsored hosting for this blog. In return, there’ll be a big “thanks to X for hosting” on the blog and people will love you forever. What I need is: WordPress Fast […]

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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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