Christian Heilmann grew up in Germany and, after a year working for the red cross, spent a year as a radio producer. From 1997 onwards he worked for several agencies in Munich as a web developer. In 2000 he moved to the States to work for Etoys and, after the .com crash, he moved to the UK where he lead the web development department at Agilisys. In April 2006 he joined Yahoo! UK as a web developer and moved on to be the Lead Developer Evangelist for the Yahoo Developer Network. In December 2010 he moved on to Mozilla as Principal Developer Evangelist for HTML5 and the Open Web. He publishes an almost daily blog at http://wait-till-i.com and runs an article repository at http://icant.co.uk. He also authored Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: From Novice to Professional.
Christian Heilmann unwraps local storage, one of HTML5’s very useful new features. Speed up web services and cache frequently accessed data or even an application’s whole interface – local storage isn’t just for Christmas.
Christian Heilmann uses the Yahoo! Query Language to assert that we already have a content management system in the form of the web. YQL unifies interfaces and combines requests to make working with APIs much easier.
Christian Heilmann introduces a handy ‘build your own search’ web service from Yahoo that enables ordinary developers to harness Yahoo’s search technology for their own sites and web applications. Roll your sleeves up and get ready for some code.
Christian Heilmann delves into the world of JavaScript application dependencies with a smart technique to help manage the loading of parts of your application as and when needed. Just as Santa only loads the presents he needs for each trip into his sleigh, keep your loading lean and the reindeer will thank you.
Christian Heilmann frolics with Flickr and provides a super simple way of using photos on your site without the need for server-side scripts or the full API. Want to bore the internets with pictures of your cat? Well now you can, without even touching the server, Gran.
