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About this and me

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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.

  • 04 Sep 2009 – dConstruct 09, Brighton, UK (maybe) no ticket

  • 05 Sep 2009 – 06 Sep 2009 – Brighton BarCamp 4, UK

  • 14 Sep 2009 – 16 Sep 2009 – Ajax Experience, Boston

  • 21 Sep 2009 – YDN Developer evening in Madrid, Spain

  • 23 Sep 2009 – Accessibility 2.0, London, UK

  • 24 Sep 2009 – Best of Accessibility, Dusseldorf, DE

  • 25 Sep 2009 – 26 Sep 2009 – Over The Air, London

  • 29 Sep 2009 – 01 Oct 2009 – TechPulse, Santa Clara

  • 03 Oct 2009 – 04 Oct 2009 – Hack North Leeds, UK. (probably not – flights) Ian Pouncey will come instead, local boy does good

  • 07 Oct 2009 – YDN Event Paris

  • 08 Oct 2009 – 09 Oct 2009 – Paris-Web

  • 16 Oct 2009 – A-Tag, Accessibility conference, Vienna, Austria

  • 18 Oct 2009 – Web Expo, Prague, Czech Republic

  • 28 Oct 2009 – Stack Overflow dev day London

  • 30 Oct 2009 – Stack Overflow dev day Cambridge, UK

  • 02 Nov 2009 – Stack Overflow, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • 05 Nov 2009 – 05 Nov 2009 – Fronteers Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • 16 Nov 2009 – 18 Nov 2009 – Webtech conference Karlsruhe, Germany.

  • 20 Nov 2009 – Full Frontal, Brighton, England

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

Check out the event archive

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Presentations

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

  • Being Cleverly Lazy

    spacer My presentation at the Web Expo in Prague, Czech Republic about making our lives easier as developers by using libraries and building reusable components.

  • Panta Rhei Alles aendert sich, warum nicht wir? A Tag 2009

    spacer Mein Vortrag am A-Tag 2009 in Wien ueber die Probleme der Barrierefreiheit-Welt innovation zu erkennen, zu unterstuetzen und dadurch es Behinderten einfacher zu machen, ein Teil der Revolution des Internets zu sein.

  • Basic Housekeeping - Plugging Obvious Security Holes In Web Sites - Paris Web2009

    spacer My talk at Paris Web 2009 about basic web security and how to avoid opening your site for attacks.

  • Introduction to Yahoo Apps

    spacer Talk at the developer evening at La Cantine in Paris, France

Get all the presentations on slideshare

Interviews and Articles

Here are my latest articles and interviews.

  • Article: Web Development is Moving On - Are you?

    In this article on thinkvitamin (originally meant to be be published at digital web) I'm discussing the need to consider using hosted services and SDKs as a means to develop working and easy to build applications.

  • Interview: 'Now's the time for the geeks in the trenches'

    My interview in .net magazine issue 187 reprinted online at Tech Radar. I am talking about the change that we don't need rock stars for innovation but instead encouragement and support from our companies.

Videos

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

  • Skills Matter : Yahoo! Developer Network:Placemaker

  • Introduction to YQL at Open Hack

  • Yahoo! opens up to new ideas | Video | Reuters.com

  • YDN Theater: Screencast: Collating distributed information with YQL

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.

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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.

  • Getting a list of Flickr photos by location and/or search term with a YQL open table

  • YQLAutoTagger – automatic tag generation with a single line of JavaScript

  • Stackoverflow DevDays – My “slide deck”

  • TTMMHTM: connections, learning is fun, machinarium and guitar hero sans guitar

  • Accessibility rumours, overflowing the stack, Fronteers, Web Directions East, Full Frontal and Cambridge Geek Day

Check out the blog at 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.

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Christian Heilmann onlinetoolsorg@gmail.com is a developer evangelist living and working in London, England.

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