Christian Heilmann

Gabbly.com in case you need to talk about a web site

June 8th, 2006

Gabbly is a really interesting approach to the issue that you need to discuss designs with clients and peers. It is a chat panel that appears on any page (except for those that redirect the user) when you add the URL as a parameter, for example http://www.gabbly.com/www.wait-till-i.com It is a matter of time before there […]

Trying to buy a ticket for Henry Rollins

June 7th, 2006

Update: The performance was great and I met Henry outside later on for a quick chat. He really is as down to earth as you’d expect. The venue, however, was a joke: Boiling hot and there was no space for your feet (on the most expensive seats). I am always amazed how hard some web […]

Dynamic Code Viewing with jQuery

June 5th, 2006

Dabbling around with jQuery for the last chapter in my upcoming book about JavaScript , I realised it is dead easy to do something that really annoyed the hell out of me for a long time: When you display code examples in online tutorials and you don’t want to use server side includes to show […]

Replace Pop-Ups with dynamic includes using DOMinclude (updated)

May 25th, 2006

Update 25/05/06: DOMinclude now supports only one include window at a time and closing include windows from external files. Pop-up windows are a pain for both the developer and the users. Often enough a page needs to link to a terms and conditions document and as the client does not want the user to leave […]

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