The Starter Toolkit is an easy way to deploy a WAD-on-PHP stack – Windows Apache DB2 PHP. It includes some neat functionality for generating Atom feeds from XML data in your DB2 databases, and some excellent REST-ful web service wrappers from tables and stored procedures.

I’ve spent my last few months tinkering with it, so do take a look. There should be a few posts about it coming down the line, from both external and internal perspectives.

How is it different from Zend Core for IBM? Well, the toolkit has the Atom stuff, and the web services stuff, and a bunch of helpful resources to help folks get started making apps full of Web 2.0-ey goodness.

We’ll be pushing out a fresh revision in double-time, so give me some feedback, consarnit!:-)