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Christian Heilmann
wait-till-i.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
Christian Heilmann is a developer evangelist who writes about JavaScript, HTML5, web performance, public speaking, and developer culture.
What HN saysHN links it for practical front-end tips, such as a CSS3 and jQuery rotating map demo, and for web development resources.
18HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Thinking lowsrc - How to make sites appear to be available a lot faster2 people · 3 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 2The road to being a kick-ass public speaker1 people · 33 points · first shared 2011 · 6 comments on HN
- 3New Twitter exploit about goats – how it works.1 people · 17 points · first shared 2010 · 6 comments on HN
- 4The Developer Evangelist handbook is out1 people · 13 points · first shared 2009 · 1 comments on HN
- 5Getting rusty – we need new best practices for a different development world1 people · 12 points · first shared 2011 · 3 comments on HN
- 6Can we stop with the Ninja and Rockstar hype already?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 7Reasons why large companies on the web are losing ground1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 8Using HTML5 sensibly and Multimedia on the web1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 9Goodbye, Yahoo – it was an awesome time1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 10Missing the point with ie6countdown.com1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 11Why I don’t write my slides in HTML1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 12A few HTML5 questions that need answering1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 13CSS challenge: 90 degree turned headings in CSS3 with a fallback?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 14The prestige of being a web developer1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 15JavaScript shortcut notations1 people · 1 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
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akirk · 2010-02-09
Blog article about it here: http://www.wait-till-i.com/2010/02/09/rotating-maps-with-css3-and-jque…
I had some problems getting it to work at first. To fix it, try using the tab key to get the focus onto the map, then it'll work. Pretty neat!
cubicray · 2008-06-26
here are some links:
http://www.crockford.com/javascript/
http://ajaxian.com/archives/so-you-want-to-write-javascript-for-a-livi…
video lectures:
http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/2007/05/programming-video-educat…
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/learning-javascript-programming-language-…
cheat sheets:
http://www.wait-till-i.com/2007/06/27/dom-javascript-cheat-sheet/
http://www.scottklarr.com/topic/95/javascriptajax-cheat-sheets/
combined resources:
http://ajaxian.com/archives/lets-compile-a-list-of-ajax-dom-and-js-rel…
http://www.softwaredeveloper.com/features/quality-ajax-resources-tutor…
http://www.maxkiesler.com/index.php/weblog/comments/learning_ajax_amp_…
http://fresherswisdom.wisdomplug.com/free-tutorials-collection/free-ja…
http://www.jasonbartholme.com/70-javascript-resources-for-every-web-de…
development tools:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-jstools/?S_CMP=GR&…
e1ven · 2007-10-12
Here are a few links from my bookmark folder on the subject, in no particular order:
How to use contrast to your advantage-
http://www.gomediazine.com/design-tip/rule-three-contrast-contrast-con…
Use colors that have varying intensities, not just differnet colors. Focus on how it looks in greyscale
http://www.gomediazine.com/design-tip/becoming-a-master-designer-rule-…
Visualizing Fitt's Law
http://particletree.com/features/visualizing-fittss-law/
Software Has personality.
http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2007/09/lightrooms_goals_1.htm…
Copy sites you like, such as:
http://orderedlist.com/articles/single-line-css#comments
or http://www.joyent.com/
How to make your designs suck less:
http://jimwhimpey.com/blog/2007/simple-ways-to-help-your-design-suck-l…
Load faster, by doing a low-res version first.
http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=464
How to do sound design
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/why_is_that_thing_beeping_a_sound_d…
More on Sound Design
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/03/22/how-to-make-user-interfaces…
Use smart color pickers
http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6434
Whitespace Matters!
http://alistapart.com/articles/whitespace
You can make a UI feel responsive, by minimizing the number of clicks
http://tantek.com/log/2007/02.html#d19t1813
Write Production UIs, never use…