Fresh news via ZendCon: Go download the IBM Mashup Starter Kit. Included are two web applications: the Mashup Hub, which serves as a repository for data feeds, and QED Wiki, which you’ve probably heard of by now. Developed on the Zend Framework and Dojo, QED Wiki is a PHP wiki engine specialized for mashup development, no coding needed. At this point very few non-hosted mashup development platforms exist, and to my knowledge this is the first time the source code for such an animal has been released.
You’ll need several pieces to get the Mashup Starter Kit up and running, so setup may be a challenge for some. One specific requirement is a running version of DB2. I’m going to see if I can’t get QED wiki running on MySQL first though.
Oh yeah, screenshots here.
The source release of the Mashup Starter Kit is a significant milestone for the mashup community. Point and click tools such as Dapper and Kapow will help bring mashup ability to the masses with easy to use tools, while more experienced developers will benefit from the source release as a development platform.
2 responses so far ↓
Lauren Cooney // October 10, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Hi John,
Thanks for the plug
We’re working on (1) making this easier for download - we recognize this is a bit of a pain and we’re working to remedy this and (2) question for you… can you run QED on mySQL? Would be interested to hear about it (I’m a huge fan of the LAMP stack… just don’t tell my IBM buddies).
If you need more info too, check out my blog:
http://www.jroller.com/cooney
And feel free to ping me with questions.
Lauren Cooney
IBM CTO Office
Information Management Group
John // October 21, 2007 at 3:12 am
It looks like there’s no issues using MySQL for QED, but it does require a rather up-to-date PHP install (PDO, etc). I’m assuming this is do to the Zend Framework requirements. That being said, this version of QED requires that Mashup Hub is present, and THAT guy wants DB2. I’ve also downloaded the special edition of QED for Mashup Camp 5, and I’ve got it working with MySQL just fine.
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