Pecha Kucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides Then Sit the Hell Down
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At pecha-kucha events, designers, architects and dilettantes each showcase 20 PowerPoint slides in 20 seconds. They say what they need to say in those six minutes and 40 seconds and then take their seat. The result? Compelling beat-the-clock performance art.
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The trio of frames offers 800 by 480 pixel resolution and supports a variety of slide show techniques.
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Is this the right book to introduce Microsoft power users to Linux?
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Gametap puts hundreds of titles at your fingertips and connects you to gamers worldwide. By Chris Kohler from Wired magazine.
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Try these (slightly) more palatable tactics.
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Cal Evans has made a new post to the Zend Developer Zone gathering together all the slides he could find from the recent Zend/PHP Conference & Expo (2007):   Most of these have already been posted on the speakers blogs. However, I thought it would be a good idea to gang them all together on one post for those who are looking for them. I've also linked to the blog posts of any speakers who blogged about ZendCon as well. Watch this page for updates, as new slides come in, I'll update the page.   If you were a speaker at the conference and you don't see your slides linked, send Cal at note at cal [at] this domain with your info.
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Both Wez Furlong and Adam Trachtenberg have posted their speaking schedules for the upcoming "conference season" at the end of the year.   Wez will be speaking at both the php|works conference (presenting a 3 hour workshop on Extending PHP, a talk on PDO, and a best practices talk about sending mail with PHP) and the Zend/PHP Conference with his usual talk on PDO.   Adam will be speaking at both of those conferences and one more, the DC PHP Conference. At all three conferences he'll be presenting roughly the same material based around his Dude, Where's My Used Car eBay/Google Maps mashup.
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For the students in Laura Sanderfordâs sixth-grade science class, Keynote â08 proved to be a roller-coaster experience. And they loved every minute of it. Having just learned about Newtonâs laws of physics and researched the history of roller coasters, the class next built their own roller coasters as a science project. To share their experiences with other students, Sanderfordâs class turned to Keynote.  âThe intuitive, seamless way that Keynote works with iLife made the project not only fun, but extremely easy,â she says. âThe kids could edit videos with iMovie, and make their own music and record their thoughts with GarageBand, and then bring it all into Keynote. Everything works together so fluidly.â
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The beamer class is a LaTeX class for creating presentations using a video projector. It offers incremental display, prearranged themes, automatic table of contents, navigation bars, bibliographies, and other features. Can be used with pdflatex and LyX. Version 3.00 is out, the next major update of beamer. Most importantly, this new version comes with a very much improved theming mechanism. You can now change every aspect of your presentation easily and independently of everything else.   Because of the many changes, do not update if you have to give a talk within the next hour or so. However, most presentations should still compile fine under the new version.  You can find this latest release here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=92412&package_id=97753
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BAGHDAD -- On the first floor of a tan building inside Baghdad's Green Zone, the full scope of Iraq's daily carnage is condensed into a 30-minute PowerPoint presentation.
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The O'Reilly Network has a new article posted for all of those out there that are looking to make writing large documentation/publications much simpler.
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Matthew Turland has been working on a new project as a part of the Zend Framework - a wrapper around the Remember the Milk website API.   RTM is basically a TODO list on serious steroids. It's the Swiss Army Knife of task management. It allows you to manage multiple lists of tasks. You can add them easily from a variety of mediums, tag them, prioritize them, set deadlines for them, have them repeat, get reminders for them, tie them to physical real world location, and share them.   He's even already issued a proposal for the functionality to the project to hep further along its inclusion. His goal is to get it included in the core for the framework within the next two releases.
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The company takes aim at the party-on-the-go crowd, but are slide-out speakers worth the extra bulk?
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Both Sara Golemon and Christopher Jones are attending this year's php|works conference and have posted their own "first day summaries" of their experiences so far.   From Sara:   Day one's of php|works is over and as usual, I have nothing but good things to say about this php|architect presentation. [...] My tutorial, PHP Extension Writing, was next in the Paris room (after lunch), and it went off a little better than I'd feared and I managed to give out three copies of my book as attendance/participation prizes.   And from Christopher:   The great thing about staying in the conference hotel is that you can roll out of bed at 5:30am body-clock time and still make it to the first session 30 minutes later with time to grab a complimentary pastry. [...] After [Paul Reinheimer's YUI] session I took a few moments to verify my notebook drives the projector - all fine once the projector picked up my screen resolution. [...] Now I'm back in my room, trying to polish up my second talk - the new one - so that I can spend the evenings talking properly with PHP users and developers.   These quotes are just the tip of the iceberg for what the two shared, so be sure to check out their full posts to get their perspective on the conference. Also keep an eye out for more great summaries to be posted here to get other developers' thoughts and happenings during this two-day conference.
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Plus: Can Google kill PowerPoint? Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Blog: Google just picked up Zenter, a presentation-creation service.
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Over on the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo site, they've formally announced the official schedule of events for the conference, giving times and dates for each of the talks.    Day One will see talks on: XML/Web Services, Best Practices, Extending PHP, and Security talk. You'll also be able to take the "Crash Course" before the Zend PHP5 Certification test in a two part series. Day Two is jammed with even more PHP goodness with talks covering: Scalable PHP Applications, eBay Web Services, a PHP case study, a great Panel Discussion, Ajax and Web Services, working with the Zend Framework, and Speeding up PHP with Oracle. Day Three has talks covering: Moving to PHP5, Moving an Enterprise to PHP, PHP/Rich Internet Applications, PDO, and PHP Lifecycle Management. Day Four (finishing things up) is shorter with talks on: Unicoding with PHP6, Consuming Web Services with PHP-GTK2, Testing with PHPUnit, Developing PHP on Windows, and the closing keynote from Robert "r0ml' Lefkowitz   And, of course, any time after the first day, you can take the PHP5 Certification Exam instead of attending one of the sessions.   Haven't signed up yet? You can reserve your spot today and get in on all of the PHP goodness a presented by some of the best speakers around. Unforutnately, the Early Bird Special as passed, but check out the Registration page for all of the details on prices.