Christian Heilmann

Rewind, Reboot

February 10th, 2005

My personal copy of Norton Internet Security arrived. Jesus I hate all that installing and rebooting. Maybe I just switch to linux soon.

what a wonderful day

February 8th, 2005

It was sunny and nice today, so I decided to buy a bicycle and explore the city. London seems to be 90% uphill, I know that now. When I came back I got an email from my ISP about a possible Virus infection, although I got AVG Free Edition running. I checked with the Symantec […]

Internet Explorer vs. Mozilla #12133

February 3rd, 2005

There is a wonderful tongue-in-cheek comparison of Fx and MSIE on BBSpot. For a change, it does not compare the technicalities of the two browsers, but the things that really matter, like the stereotypical users and if it can help you to get laid.

Interesting liquid layout

February 3rd, 2005

I just looked at the new Rammstein web site www.rammstein.com and was quite impressed by the way it deals with different browser sizes. Resize your browser window to see what I mean. Nicely done, that.

Printing background images

February 3rd, 2005

One of our clients complained that our print stylesheet doesn’t work as the backgrounds don’t get printed. This is a setting of the browser, not a CSS issue. In MSIE, it is part of the Advanced Options of the Internet Settings: In Firefox, it is an option in the File – Page Setup dialogue:

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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