Christian Heilmann

Safari for Windows – well almost

August 8th, 2006

You can now get a WebKit based browser for PC, which allegedly works and renders like Safari. It is called Swift and can be downloaded at http://www.getwebkit.org/ In order to keep the original PC/Windows vibe going, the install will crash unless you apply a patch beforehand. Testing ahoy! Chris

Win free ebooks and copies of my books!

August 7th, 2006

I just published a competition on The web site of Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax with prices like free ebook vouchers, copies of said book or Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance . All you need to show is either a little creativity or lack of fear of public embarassment. On to […]

Workfriendly surfing

August 2nd, 2006

I just stumbled upon workfriendly, a web service that shows a web site inside a frame that looks like it is Microsoft Office Word 2003. The clue is that instead of just showing the page in the frame, the service also turns off imagery and layout and makes the web site appear as if it […]

JavaScript/AJAX contractor needed in London ASAP

August 2nd, 2006

We are currently looking for a contractor to start ASAP at a approximately one week project implementing a user module on a large scale portal site. The job will include Ajax and some PHP and you will have use the YUI library. The successful applicant will have to join us in Covent Garden, London and […]

Is my quest for a good multi-platform IDE over?

July 31st, 2006

I just installed Aptana and peeked at some of the Aptana Screencasts to see what this IDE can do and I am very impressed. I am a sold to Homesite, ever since version 2.5, but lately I found myself more and more using my Mac and I hate using different IDEs. WordWrangler and CSSEdit seemed […]

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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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