Resources

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• This series kicks off with "Understanding the Zend Framework, Part 1."
  
  
• The Zend Framework website maintains the latest documentation.
  
  
• Read "Mashups: The new breed of Web app" for an introduction.
  
  
• To better understand the goals of the feed-reader project, read "Introduction to Syndication, (RSS) Really Simple Syndication," by Vincent Luria.
  
  
• You can see a good comparison of how much time Zend Framework will save you in "Ajax RSS reader: Use Ajax to build an RSS reader," in which an RSS reader is built from scratch in PHP.
  
  
• Developer Chris Laffra provides some interesting thoughts and experiments in Ajax and mashup creations in "Considering Ajax, Part 2: Change your life with mashups."
  
  
• Learn more about Zend Core for IBM, a seamless, easy-to-install, and supported PHP development and production environment that features integration with DB2 and Informix databases.
  
  
• A more in-depth discussion of stateless vs. sessioned architectures is discussed in the developerWorks article "Resource-oriented vs. activity-oriented web services."
  
  
• "Understanding Web Services specifications, Part 1" provides an overview of SOAP, SOAP servers, and SOAP clients.
  
  
• Implement SOAP services with the Zend Framework (Vikram Vaswani, developerWorks, May 2010): Check out this article on using SOAP web services with the Zend Framework.
  
  
• Professor Roy T. Fielding's dissertation first formalized the principle of the REST, which describes the network architecture of the web.
  
  
• Check out Amazon's database of books and retail goods, Yahoo!'s index of the web, and Flickr's quality photographs -- essential tools for any well-traveled surfer.
  
  
• If you need more information about the ItemSearch service or anything of the other web services provided by Amazon.com, read the API Documentation.
  
  
• For more information about photo searches, user searches, or any other searches, check out the Flickr API Documentation.
  
  
• Flickr uses a tagging system based on del.icio.us' "social bookmarking."
  
  
• The developerWorks tutorial series "Learning PHP" takes you from the most basic PHP script to working with databases and streaming from the file system.
  
  
• The PHP Function Reference is another valuable resource.
  
  
• Thought Storms ModelViewController explains the MVC and the controversy and confusion surrounding it.
  
  
• The phpPatterns website explains MVC from the PHP point of view.
  
  
• Visit IBM developerWorks' PHP project resources to learn more about PHP.
  
  
• Stay current with developerWorks technical events and webcasts.
  
  
• Check out upcoming conferences, trade shows, webcasts, and other Events around the world that are of interest to IBM open source developers.
  
  
• Visit the developerWorks Open source zone for extensive how-to information, tools, and project updates to help you develop with open source technologies and use them with IBM's products.
  
  
• To listen to interesting interviews and discussions for software developers, be sure to check out developerWorks podcasts.
  
  

Get products and technologies

• Download the Zend Framework from Zend Technologies.
  
  
• Download PHP V5.x from PHP.net.
  
  
• Check out Yahoo!'s Web services application.
  
  
• Sign up for a free Flickr account.
  
  
• For the Yahoo! Application ID, you will need a Yahoo! username.
  
  
• Retrievr is an experimental mashup using the Flickr API and a simple Flash drawing program to search for photos.
  
  
• Innovate your next open source development project with IBM trial software, available for download or on DVD.
  
  

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• Get involved in the developerWorks community by participating in developerWorks blogs.
  
  

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• Before you start
• Stateless vs. sessioned interactions
• Adding related books: Amazon
• Adding related photos: Flickr
• Adding related tweets from Twitter
• Adding related search results: Yahoo!
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