Project Zero Blog

[ January 26, 2010; 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. ] There is an exclusive one day workshop taking place on January 26th at the IBM Innovation Center at Hursley in thhe UK. This workshop will be delivered by members of the sMash development team.

From the abstract:

This workshop will explore IBM WebSphere sMash with discussions that include Representational State Transfer (REST), an architectural style [...]

The World Community Grid enables individuals to donate the idle or spare power of their computers to groundbreaking environmental and medical research. World Community Grid have just announced a new Facebook application which is built on WebSphere sMash and is available to over 400,000 World Community Grid users.
The World Community Grid Facebook application was developed [...]

We recently upgraded the forum software, which gave us an updated feed capability and a new set of feed URLs.   The new feed URLs for our ProjectZero forums areas are as follows…
All Posts:  http://www.projectzero.org/forum/feed.php
Topics Only:  http://www.projectzero.org/forum/feed.php?mode=topics

We are pleased to announce that Monza (the latest sMash development driver) now has support for the open source Wiki/CMS/Groupware TikiWiki. You can find installation instructions on our Development Wiki. This adds to the growing list of popular PHP applications that we support (you can find a list of supported PHP applications here ). [...]

When I am writing a PHP script I often want to write to the WebSphere sMash log or trace files. Using the Java Bridge I have written a simple PHP script that I can include in my PHP scripts and use to log to these files. I can then control the level of logging by [...]

A new version of IBM Application Creator for Business Users has been uploaded to the ProjectZero web site.
There is no longer a limit on the number of records that can be created for each form in an application.
Note: The free download is licensed for development and demonstration purposes only.
This new version (1.0.1.1) contains the following [...]

Recently we have had a number of queries about poor performance of sMash applications which have turned out to be caused by starting the applications from App Builder.
App Builder is intended as a development tool and as such it always starts applications in debug mode. This has a fairly dramatic effect on the performance [...]

We have recently added the last of the PHP functions needed to run a PHP Facebook platform application on Project Zero. To get started writing my own Facebook application I simply followed these steps:

Download the latest Project Zero development driver which now has all the support you need (use the Monza release or later). You [...]

Recently, we’ve provided the Optimistic Concurrency Control (OCC) support on ZRM . Currently this feature is supported on ZRM update operation for both ZRM model API and HTTP REST API (both Json and Atom format). This work is based on the new ZRM refactor which introduces a new module zero.resource.core so that you can use [...]

We had about 25 people attend the RTP WebSphere Users Group meeting last night.  The first 30 minutes belonged to Andrew Spyker of the WAS team, who gave a presentation on new XML support being delivered in the upcoming WAS v7 XML Feature Pack, along with one of the youtube videos showing how quick, easy and [...]