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!

Vienna + PHP (source code) + iUI

Source posted! BSD License. From the README:

You'll need to do a few things to get this working:

1. Move the extracted vienna directory to /Library/WebServer/Documents
2. Download iUI (http://code.google.com/p/iui/) and put the main iui directory into the extracted vienna/ directory
3a. Setup a cron job to copy ~/Library/Application Support/Vienna/messages.db to the extracted vienna/ directory
3b. For the adventurous: mv ~/Library/Application Support/Vienna/messages.db to the extracted vienna/ directory and sym-link it back to ~/Library/Application Support/Vienna/
4. Make sure to enable web sharing
5. Go to (your computer's name).local/vienna

Vienna + PHP + iUI

So, sick of not having the ability to feed my XML addiction when away from my machine, I took an hour this morning and hacked together a quick'n'dirty iPhone/iPod Touch UI for my Vienna database using MacOS 10.5's standard PHP (with SQLite PDO), iui, and my Vienna database (stored in sqlite3). I gave it read-only access to the database, partly so I wouldn't have to worry about screwing it up, partly because I didn't feel like bothering just yet. I just need to add a "Mark Read" button to make an Ajax call.

I'll ask the Vienna devs if they'd like a copy of the source to toy with and generally improve, since I blatantly stole reused Joe Hewitt's design and markup for iui-enabled Digg.

Note: though my uploaded demo does pull from a copied Vienna database, it does not pull from a live one, since I wrote the code to run on a desktop MacOS 10.5 machine and not a Linux server. I then just made a bookmark on my iPod Touch to my iMac on the local network.

Othello for iPhone/iPod Touch posted in Apple's Web Apps

Just saw this morning that it went up yesterday.

Othello for iPhone/iPod Touch

Since I woke up early today for some unknown reason and couldn't fall back asleep...I took fifteen minutes and made a game of Othello that I wrote ages (okay, six or seven years) ago in JavaScript ready for the iPhone and iPod Touch, since I now have the latter. It may not adhere exactly to the rules of the game when someone runs out of moves, but I wrote it from my memory of the game and not a rulesheet.

It doesn't have different levels of game play, or a polished look, or score saving, or anything like that. But it comes in a very small package and works just fine when not connected to a network. Basically, I only stripped out unnecessary markup, fixed the width to something friendly with the iPhone/iPod Touch's vertical orientation, and made it a single file under 5k (not counting the three images, which total 238 bytes).