Christian Heilmann

Yahoo! User Interface Blog Frontend engineering rocks right now. The era of boring web sites is over and we’re all into pushing the envelope, erasing boundaries and getting beyond whatever prevents us from building the next killer web application. New companies building quick-turnaround web products spring up like mushrooms and many an old convention of web design is cast aside to make way for quick prototyping and agile development. The real confusing part of it — at least to me — is that we don’t try out new ways to approach web application development. Instead, there seem to be two separate schools of development approach: You either use a framework (like Ruby on Rails, Spring or Microsoft .NET) to build your web-app or You build your web app wi... (more)

AJAXWorld Report: Cold Weather, Arctic Snowcruisers and a Shift in Perception

Chris Heilmann's Blog This is a good chance to jot down my experiences during AJAXWorld. I had braced myself to stand in front of a large room full of suits that needed to go to the conference rather than wanting to go. Turns out I was wrong. The audience was a mixed crowd of company owners, project managers, designers and developers and everybody was very involved and interested. I met a ... (more)