Christian Heilmann was born in Germany and started as a “Web Designer” around 1997. Since then he’s worked with several agencies, dotcoms and currently works for Yahoo! as a frontend architect, trainer and general the guy to go to when it comes to making developers happy and work more efficient. According to him it is high time we start turning web development from a niche skill to a mainstream technology ready for big teams and distributed development. Only then we will get the respect we deserve.