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About this and me

Chris speaking at Paris Web 2009

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

  • 02 Mar 2010 – Ignite, London

  • 08 Mar 2010 – Georgia Tech University Hack Challenge, Atlanta, Georgia, US

  • 14 Mar 2010 – Mix 10, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

  • 18 Mar 2010 – Open Hack Day, Sao Paulo, Brazil

  • 26 Mar 2010 – University Hack Day, Dundee, Scotland

  • 17 Apr 2010 – PFCongres, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • 28-29 Apr 2010 – Location Business Summit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • 08 May 2010 – WarbleCamp, London, England

  • 14 May 2010 – Future of Web Apps, Dublin, Ireland

  • 20 May 2010 – NevaCamp – Saint Petersburg, Russia

  • 02 Jun 2010 – Swedish Developer Conference, Stockholm, Sweden

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Presentations

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

  • Participating in the Web of Data

    Web development as we do it right now is on the way out. The future of the web is what its founders have planned a long time ago: loosely joined pieces of information for you to pick and choose and put together in interfaces catered to your end users. In this session, see how to build a web portfolio that is always up-to-date, maintained by using the web rather than learning a bespoke interface and high in performance as the data is pulled and cached for you by a high traffic server farm rather than your server. If you wondered how you can leave your footprint on the web without spending thousands on advertising and development, here are some answers.

  • Introduction to Geo hacking with (amongst others) Yahoo Technology.

    Introduction to geo technologies for hacking at the Georgia Tech Uni Hack day.

  • Treading the cowpaths of the information superhighway.

    My talk at ignite London explaining the benefits of allowing people to use the infrastructure they are used to and bring their content onto the web instead of forcing them into a web interface they don’t like using.

  • Getting Ready For Hackday

    Introductory talk for the University Hack round in Dundee, Scotland.

Get all the presentations on slideshare

Interviews and Articles

    Videos

      Bio

      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

      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.

      Contact

      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.