Enterprise Guts slides up, with CSS animations

I just realized that I didn't post the final version of my slides from my talk at ZendCon, but now I have: Digging Through the Guts of Enterprise PHP. However, they will only work in Safari, since I hacked CSS transitions into S5. Different builds of WebKit (and different releases of Safari) will have varying degrees of support for everything used in there (sliding, fading, and flipping). For the talk itself, I ended up having to go back a couple of weeks in the WebKit builds, since they broke a few things... Part of the fun of using experimental technology in a nightly build, though.

As a bonus, this means that the slides (mostly) work in the iPhone/iPod Touch version of Safari:

Due to how S5 triggers moving to the next slide, you just need to bring up the control bar at the bottom so you can tap on the arrows to move forward. In the last bit there, the animation of two simultaneous transforms, flipping the slides around, caused what we software engineers refer to as a "rendering freak out" followed by mobile Safari freezing up. All in due time!

OLPC G1G1

Having taken part in the first round of OLPC's G1G1, I can definitely say that these things make fantastic ultra-portable machines. Since they run Redhat-based Linux (which you can of course replace with Debian if you prefer, or just replace the UI), you can easily install everything from FreeDoom to Apache HTTPD Server. In short order, I installed subversion, Apache HTTPD Server, PHP5, and MySQL (Vim and SSH come preinstalled). Since they designed these things for kids to carry to school through everything from rain storms to sand storms, they'll out-rugged anything else even remotely like it.

Or, you can give it to someone you know who can get use out of the myriad of Activities it includes for kids to learn everything from reading and writing to programming to music.

Either way, Go give one.