Christian Heilmann

CSS Toolshed in the making

October 19th, 2005

I finally got around to develop the scripts needed for the CSS toolshed. CSS what? Oh yeah, some may remember that I wanted to provide a means to simulate a CMS driven site to show that CSS can be used on an enterprise level, too. Initially I meant to call that CSS factory but some […]

Flexible CSS tabnavigation

October 12th, 2005

Update: judging by the comments below it seems it was not obvious that the JavaScipt is only needed to support MSIE. I added this even more obviously to the explanation text. Hopefully it is clearer now… I was asked by a friend yesterday to review their company web site and was amazed to see table […]

Usability Disaster – Wallace and Gromit at the Odeon – or not

October 12th, 2005

I am really looking forward to Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit and wanted to book tickets for next week, as it’ll be too packed now. Well, I went to the Odeon web site to book tickets for my girlfriend, her sister and me, just to realise it does not work at […]

Specificity wars – Molly vs. Andy

October 7th, 2005

Specificity is not only the aspect of CSS that will make any fluent presentation stop in its tracks (or am I the only one who has problems pronouncing it?), it is also a very important part of CSS design. Basically it allows to override settings defined earlier in a stylesheet by adding other element, class […]

Treehouse – not the one of horror

October 7th, 2005

I’ve been too busy this week to actually read the new webdesign magazine released by the folks at particletree. The first issue of Treehouse can be downloaded for free and you have a special offer of the next few issues for 15 dollars. From a first glance I like what I see, although I am […]

Newsletter

Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers.

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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