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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.

  • 20 Nov 2009 – Full Frontal, Brighton, England

  • 20 Nov 2009 – 21 Nov 2009 – Cambridge Geek Day – Cambridge, England

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Presentations

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

  • Giving Technology To The World

    A talk in Yahoo how to write sample code and examples that make people want to use your technology. Audio is available at archive.org: http://www.archive.org/details/GivingTechnologyToTheWorld

  • YQL and YUI - Bausteine fuers web

    Es ist heutzutage ziemlich einfach, schnell eine Web Applikation zusammenzustellen. In diesem Vortrag zeigt Christian Heilmann wie er einige seiner Beispielapplikationen in einem Tag erstellen konnte indem er Bausteine wie YQL und YUI verwendete.

  • Building With YQL And YUI

    An introductory talk how to build quick mashups and products by using YQL to get information of the Web and YUI to build the interface. By building on top of proven concepts and systems that are in use in large web sites and applications you have the time to concentrate on what you want to achieve with your application rather than making it work for browsers.

  • Things you can use (by the Yahoo Developer Network and friends)

    An introduction to the developer offers of Yahoo given as a talk at the Yahoo/Opera developer evening in Oslo, Norway December 2009. And yes, it was cold!

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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.