Christian Heilmann

First impressions of Visual Studio 2005

January 20th, 2006

I just attended a Microsoft partner course “Whats New in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 for Existing Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Developers”, mucking about for three days with the new VS. Here are my first impressions, which might have to be taken in with a pinch of salt, as I haven’t used the full product in […]

Educating Chris on Visual Studio

January 17th, 2006

I have spent yesterday and will spend today and tomorrow in a Microsoft Partner Training on the new parts of Visual Studio. It is quite an impressive IDE, and can now also deal with XML and schemas quite nicely. Maybe if it also supported DTDs properly, the HTML output of .NET wouldn’t make us weep […]

Amazing new idea: Getting naked for money!

January 12th, 2006

We all knew that the success of the million dollar homepage will spin off lots of imitations and plagiates. One of the more funnier ones is Buy it off where you can buy parts of a female body to be revealed and link to your site. Visitors can also solve puzzles in these parts of […]

And you thought your job was b**locks?

January 12th, 2006

I just got greeted by this happy chap at the tube station: He collected donations for a male cancer research charity and I must say he has balls doing so dressed like this. Can you imagine the interview? “You want me to go dressed as WHAT?” Only in England, I love this place!

Accommodation idea for @media 2006

January 11th, 2006

I had some people complaining about the price for accommodation in London. Well, it is true, this city is bloody expensive, but if you are not too afraid to rough it a little, and you get together and book a room for more than one or two people the Generator Hostel at Russel Square is […]

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160: Graphs and RAGs explained and VS Code extension hacks Graphs and RAG explained, how AI is reshaping UI and work, how to efficiently use Cursor, VS Code extensions security issues.
159: AI pipelines, 10x faster TypeScript, How to interview How to use LLMs to help you write code and how much electricity does that use? Is your API secure? 10x faster TypeScript thanks to Go!
158: 🕹️ Super Mario AI 🔑 API keys in LLMs 🤙🏾 Vibe Coding Why is AI playing Super Mario? How is hallucinating the least of our worries and what are rules for developing Safety Critical Code?
157: CUDA in Python, Gemini Code Assist and back-dooring LLMs We met with a CUDA expert from NVIDIA about the future of hardware, we look at how AI fails and how to play pong on 140 browser tabs.
156: Enterprise dead, all about Bluesky and React moves on! Learn about Bluesky as a platform, how to build a React App and how to speed up SQL. And play an impossible game in the browser.

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