Welcome to The ZendCon Sessions. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2007 in Burlingame, CA. We hope you enjoy today's session as we listen to Stewart Nickolas present "QEDWiki and Zend Framework".

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I call them "feed bleeds." That's because syndicated feeds can be easily bled into one another to form aggregated streams of content. Not only that, users and developers can increasingly control the content mix.

Zend is already playing a part in the development of these "bleeds" via their contribution (a collaboration with IBM) - the QEDWiki software (based on the Zend Framework).

The idea of application wikis and situational applications has a lot of potential IMO. If you consider Dokuwiki (tends to get mentioned round here) for example, its interesting that a number of users have employed it as an alternative to a CMS-it gives you more structure than most wiki's thanks to things like namespaces but is far more flexible than your average CMS.

Harry also mentions some of the plugins included (behavior syntax and Ajax chat) and recommends developers keep an eye on these new introductions by IBM to the world of PHP.

We've covered QEDWiki before but so far we've only had screenshots to show. Now we've got a full blown screencast. The demo application they show is the "hardware store" scenario we first saw in the article with Dan Gisolfi. Each time I see a new screencast of this application it gets better. This time, the properties panels are fleshed out and everything looks a lot more finished.

They remind readers of what the QEDWiki is - "the most sophisticated applications to have been built on top of the Zend Framework so far" that allows users to create applications in a drag and drop style right on a wiki page. Check out the screencast for a look at how it all works.

When people mention IBM, the most common mental picture is huge corporate IT. (that and Avery Books starring back at me from my TV demanding to know where the flying cars are) Their reputation for large IT projects borders on legendary. So prevalent is this mental picture that many people lose sight of the fact that IBM has been quietly innovating for the past 20 years.

I was recently blessed with the opportunity to slip below the blue veneer. It was far from the corporate cube farm mentality I expected. What I found was interesting, it was fresh; yes, I'll say it, it was innovative.

They talk mostly about the QEDWiki technology - an interface to web applications (which can use PHP) to be a "mashup enabler" for developers. They cover what it is and how it'll help the web in general, and include a mention of IBM's demo site for the project (for a fictional hardware store).

They talk about:

• component architectures,
• the rich design experience that a framework needs to have,
• the inclusion of being able to drop "back to the code",
• the proper seperatin of model and view
• and the ease of multiple-developer development

There's also a mention of IBM's QEDWiki and the proof of concept that Andi (and crew) presented at the php|tek conference during a keynote (check out this this screencast example for their presentation).