Project Zero is a community, a development platform, an incubator. It's a new way to radically simplify the development of rich internet applications. We like REST, lightweight data formats and scripting languages. We use PHP, Groovy, Atom, Ajax, JSON, JavaScript, and whatever else is good for the job. Here are some feeds from us to you.
Project Zero: Application Builder Tour Part 1
Project Zero: Application Builder Intro Part 2
Project Zero: Install To Hello World
Milestone 5 published (1.0M5)
M5 has been released.

Some highlights provided in M5:
  • Persisting Global Context zones, e.g., /app and /user
  • Support for launching Zero applications through a light-weight daemon
    • …
Project Zero at PHP London Conference
On Friday I attended the PHP London Conference which is organised by the local PHP London user group which several members of the Project Zero team regularly attend.

Ant Phillips gave an…
Liberating your Enterprise Assets to the Web
I am really pleased with the way Project Zero is shaping up. I especially like the way the web-based tools project is moving ahead a light speed. It looks like 2008 will be the year that we in IBM…
Milestone 4 published (1.0M4)
M4 has been released.

Some highlights provided in M4:
  • Configuration file improvements
    • better error handling/reporting
  • JSON API improvements
    • simplified encoding/decoding APIs
    • better performance
  • ZRM
    • Paging support
  • Zero launcher
  • Connection API enhancements
  • Updateable command line

  • PHP
    • Multibyte String Functions
    • Image Functions
    • MySQL Functions
  • Flow
    • Groovy access/update of XML DOM
    • Tooling improvements

For a more complete list of new…
My recent interview with InfoQ on REST and Project Zero
Over the Holidays, I had Floyd Marinescu from InfoQ drop in with video equipment in tow. Floyd does some really nice work, and asked me some decent questions regarding Project Zero and Restful SOA. It was kind of weird sitting in front of the camera with a bright light shining in my face… but after a while I forgot the camera was there and started doing my thing. The real trick was for Floyd to get me to shut up (It’s 32 mins )

The article is titled Interview: IBM CTO Jerry Cuomo on…
Running phpBB from the Project Zero CommandLine
Following on from Rob’s blog about running phpBB as a Project Zero application under Eclipse, I thought it would be interesting to show how straightforwards it is to get phpBB running using the Zero command line. The following instructions are adapted from Rob’s originals.

* Follow the instructions to install Project Zero CLI. Make sure you point to latest repository http://www.projectzero.org/update/zero.eclipse.php.latest/ rather than a milestone repository.
  • Create a new Zero…
PhpBB running on Project Zero
Whilst the objective for PHP support in Project Zero is much wider than simply running existing applications, the ability to do so is an important proof point for compatibility. I blogged last year about our plans to use well known PHP applications to shape our priorities as we build out the PHP extension libraries and we have been busy executing that plan.

I am delighted to be able to announce that it is now possible to install and run PhpBB 3.0 on Project Zero. The procedure is very…