Christian Heilmann

It’s a date (field)

March 9th, 2005

Following a discussion I just couldn’t stop myself participating in about date form fields on the list I googled a bit on the topic of date entry usability and found a extensive usability study on hotel booking systems. There is no silver bullet, and it is very dependent on the product. The battling sides are […]

Get a sloppy connection

March 7th, 2005

I just played with Sloppy, a tool to simulate dial-up connections on your broadband for testing purposes, and I am very happy indeed with it. So if you have a web site or product that is most likely to be used by dial-up users, check them out with sloppy slowing down your connection.

Psychic JavaScript?

February 28th, 2005

Human behaviour is rather predictable. When guessing passwords for example it is quite a good bet to check for names of family members and birthdates. It is also possible to predict what a person will choose when following certain rules, as the Mind Reader proves.

Keyboard Access and Internet Explorer

February 25th, 2005

Internet Explorer has a nasty bug when you link to named anchors. You go there visually, but the focus of the keyboard access is not taken forward.

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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