Lately I’ve been quite immersed in the world of Microsoft to find my way around the new job, and whilst doing so I discovered a few things you might have missed. Especially in the field of accessibility there is some splendid stuff happening. During the key note of //build last week in San Francisco there […]

Die letzten drei Tage war ich in Darmstadt auf der BASTA Konferenz, um mich mit Leuten über den Tod von IE, dem Selbstverständnis eines immergrünen Browsers in Windows, des Open Source releases von Chakra und Machine Learning mit Project Oxford zu unterhalten. Neben eines Interviews mit Entwickler TV und kiloweise tollem Essens habe ich dann […]

I just had a journalist ask me to answer a few questions about developer evangelism and I did so on the train ride. Here are the un-edited answers for your perusal. In your context, what’s a developer evangelist? As defined quite some time ago in my handbook (http://developer-evangelism.com/): “A developer evangelist is a spokesperson, mediator […]

Today I gave two talks at JFokus in Stockholm, Sweden. This is the one about JavaScript and ChakraCore. Presentation: Making ES6 available to all with ChakraCore Christian Heilmann, Microsoft 2015 was a year of massive JavaScript innovation and changes. Lots of great features were added to language, but using them was harder than before as […]

Last week, I cut my holiday in the Bahamas short to go to the Awwwards conference in Amsterdam and deliver yet another fire and brimstone talk about performance and considering people outside of our sphere of influence. Photo by Trine Falbe The slides are on SlideShare: All the small things… – Awwwards 2016 from Christian […]