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About this and me

Chris speaking at Paris Web 2009

Hello, I am Christian Heilmann, a Developer Evangelist living and working in London, England.

This site has traditionally been my repository of online articles but as times change and I am too busy to maintain it all it now is a repository of my talks, videos and other bits and bobs I share on the web.

I work for the Yahoo Developer network and I am available as a speaker for your events.

This site is dynamically generated from several web resources using YQL.

The photo on the left was taken by Hugues Moreno at the Paris Web conference 2008.

Upcoming Events

Want to see me speak? Here's where I will be in the nearer future.

  • 01-03 Sep 2010 – Frontend 2010 – Oslo, Norway

  • 13 Sep 2010 – Carsonified JavaScript online conference – Maintainable JavaScript

  • 02 Oct 2010 – YDN Event Copenhagen, Denmark (TBC)

  • 07-08 Oct 2010 – Fronteers – Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • 11-13 Oct 2010 – Web Tech, Mainz Germany

  • 14-16 Oct 2010 – Paris Web, Paris, France

  • 21-23 Oct 2010 – Frontends, Warsaw, Poland (TBC)

  • 26-27 Oct 2010 – Paypal Innovate, San Francisco, USA (TBC)

  • 03-05 Nov 2010 – How to Web, Bucharest, Romania

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Presentations

Here are my latest presentations, hosted on SlideShare for you to re-use.

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Interviews and Articles

Here are my latest articles and interviews.

    Videos

    Here are some videos of presentations I've given in the past hosted on Yahoo video.

      Bio

      Here's a short bio of mine for copy + paste:

      Christian Heilmann is a geek and hacker by heart. He’s been a professional web developer for about eleven years and worked his way through several agencies up to Yahoo where he delivered Yahoo Maps Europe and Yahoo Answers.

      He’s written two and contributed to three books on JavaScript, web development and accessibility, lead distributed teams as a manager and made them work with one another and released dozens of online articles and hundreds of blog posts in the last few years.

      He’s been nominated standards champion of the year 2008 by .net magazine in the UK and currently sports the fashionable job title “International Developer Evangelist” spending his time going from conference to conference and university to university to speak and train people on systems provided by Yahoo and other web companies that want to make this web thing work well for everybody.

      Photos to use

      The following photos are hosted on Flickr and their copyright lies with the authors. Click the photo to get to Flickr and see the T&C's.

      My Books

      Yes, I did write some words and put them with ink on dead trees for you to read in those few moments when the wireless is down again.


      Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: From Novice to Professional


      This is what it says on the tin: a JavaScript book that starts at zero and ends with Ajax. All the way I made sure I praise and explain unobtrusive scripting and working in a way that enables people that come after you to take over work from you without despairing. You can get the code at beginningjavascript.com

      Web Development Solutions: Ajax, APIs, Libraries, and Hosted Services Made Easy


      This book was technically co-authored but Norm pulled out halfway through, so most was written by me. The book is a great one, but never got as successful as the Beginning JavaScript one as the title is misleading. We planned and executed the book as a step by step blueprint to create a web site using WordPress as the base and several online services as data sources (flickr, last.fm, youtube, del.icio.us).
      If you know someone who wants to have a great web site without coding, this is a good choice.


      The Art and Science of JavaScript


      This was a quick chapter for this Sitepoint release and it turned out to be a wonderful book. My chapter is dealing with creating unobtrusive JavaScript badges for distribution.

      Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance


      I wrote the “accessible JavaScript” chapter of this reference that should be on the table of everyone who claims to want to deal with web accessibility.

      Blog

      Almost daily ravings of a geek with an urge to better the world.

        Check out the blog at http://wait-till-i.com

        Contact

        Ways to contact me

        The easiest option to contact me (as it works on my Blackberry and that one is always connected) is via Twitter where I am known as codepo8.

        I am also available on Facebook but I am checking this much less frequently.

        You can see my photos on Flickr and my professional connections on LinkedIn.

        If none of this tickles your fancy, you can send me an old fashioned email, but please be patient as I'll need a few hours to answer.

        Christian Heilmann is a developer evangelist living and working in London, England.

        This site is dynamically updated using YQL and uses YUI for layout.