
IBM is working on <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6065324.html?tag=zdnn.alert">a project, called QEDwiki,</A> that takes a stab at a long-held industry promise: end-user programming. Rod Smith, IBM's vice president of emerging technology, plans to talk about QEDwiki and Big Blue's growing fondness for scripting languages, a relatively lightweight approach to writing applications, at a PHP Web development conference. The idea behind QEDwiki, which stands for quick and easily done wiki, is that business people can create their own Web pages by dragging and dropping components onto a pallet, Smith said.