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Midgard Weekly Summary #79: November 2nd 2009
Posted 8 days ago by henri....@iki.fi (Henri Bergius)
Welcome to Midgard Weekly Summaries, the weekly newsletter of happenings in the Midgard Project. This issue comes a bit late as Bergie has been busy in The Open Web of Ede, the Netherlands.
Midgard 9.09 nightly builds are now also available
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for RPM-based distributions like Fedora, RHEL and OpenSUSE thanks to jval. It is now a good time to test them before Mjolnir goes stable!
MidCOM3 is switching to Pake as the automation tool. Pake can be used for things like packaging, static file installation and scaffolding new components
Midgard2 URL parsing will be moved to be completely handled in PHP code in MidCOM3. This will enable greater flexibility with host setup and better caching. There is an experimental Mjolnir dispatcher to use this
Midgard 8.09.6.1 MidCOM hotfix was released, fixing issues like object labels in Asgard Trash and undeleting object attachments
zend_mm_heap corruption in Mjolnir PHP extension has been fixed
Midgard deletion vote on Wikipedia. A big discussion last week was the deletion vote on the Midgard page on Wikipedia. The vote result was to keep the page, with some suggestions to improve the article
About Midgard
Midgard is a persistent storage framework built for the replicated world. It enables developers build applications that have their data in sync between the desktop, mobile devices and web services. It also allows for easy sharing of data between users.
Midgard does this all by building on top of technologies like GLib, libgda and D-Bus. It provides developers with object-oriented programming interfaces for C, PHP and Python. Web service developers also benefit from MidCOM, a modern MVC framework for PHP development that utilizes all the advantages of the Midgard storage framework. MidCOM helps web production also by shipping a set of content management tools.
About MWS
Midgard Weekly Summaries is a newsletter for keeping up with the happenings in the Midgard community. Notices about new published summaries will be sent to the Midgard user mailing list, Qaiku #midgard channel, and are available via RSS.
The new MWS editions are edited collaboratively to make the editing burden easier. To suggest stories here bookmark them with del.icio.us tag "midgardweeklysummary". [Less]
Midgard Weekly Summary #78: October 25th 2009
Posted 16 days ago by henri....@iki.fi (Henri Bergius)
Midgard Gathering fall 2009 special
Welcome to Midgard Weekly Summaries, the weekly newsletter of happenings in the Midgard Project. This weekend has been busy with the Midgard Gathering for fall 2009 in Helsinki, Finland, and so there are
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many things going on:
Midgard 8.09.6 "AmsterGard", the latest iteration of the Ragnaroek LTS series was released. This includes some 180 fixes and improvements, and is recommended to all Ragnaroek users
In addition to all the Linux distributions catered by OBS, Midgard 8.09.6 is also available in MacPorts
Alexey ran Midgard2 Mjolnir through the clang static analyzer to find lurking bugs before the release. See the report
Midgard2 installation directories were changed to "midgard2" throughout the system
Midgard photo galleries can now generate square thumbnails thanks to Solt
Work on Midgard Runtime has been started by MDK. This new revision of what was formerly known as App Builder is using Qt and can be ported to both Linux and Mac. With the Midgard Runtime you can deploy any Midgard-based web application as a local desktop app
Photos from the Midgard Gathering are already available on Flickr
Midgard2-Python-Qt4 tutorial was held to Tero Heikkinen. The example app code is available on GitHub
MidCOM3 switched to Pake from Phing that was formerly used for setup and scaffolding
Midgard2 10.03 will be developed with codename "Ratatoskr", the messenger squirrel that scampers around the tree of life in Viking mythology. Ratatoskr is small and fast
About Midgard
Midgard is a persistent storage framework built for the replicated world. It enables developers build applications that have their data in sync between the desktop, mobile devices and web services. It also allows for easy sharing of data between users.
Midgard does this all by building on top of technologies like GLib, libgda and D-Bus. It provides developers with object-oriented programming interfaces for C, PHP and Python. Web service developers also benefit from MidCOM, a modern MVC framework for PHP development that utilizes all the advantages of the Midgard storage framework. MidCOM helps web production also by shipping a set of content management tools.
About MWS
Midgard Weekly Summaries is a newsletter for keeping up with the happenings in the Midgard community. Notices about new published summaries will be sent to the Midgard user mailing list, Qaiku #midgard channel, and are available via RSS.
The new MWS editions are edited collaboratively to make the editing burden easier. To suggest stories here bookmark them with del.icio.us tag "midgardweeklysummary".
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Midgardians gather in Helsinki this weekend
Posted 19 days ago by henri....@iki.fi (Henri Bergius)
Midgard Gathering, the meeting of Midgard users and developers that is arranged twice every year, will be in Helsinki, Finland this weekend.
More information from the agenda.
Midgard 8.09.6 "AmsterGard" released!
Posted 21 days ago by piotrek...@gmail.com (Piotr Pokora)
Lodz, October 20th 2009 -- The Midgard Project has released the sixth maintenance release of Midgard 8.09 Ragnaroek LTS. Ragnaroek LTS is a Long Term Support version of the free software content management framework.
The 8.09.6 "AmsterGard"
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release focuses on API stability and provides improved Midgard installer.
Stable 8.09.6 release is recommended for all users of Midgard.
Main changes from 8.09.5:
Fixed multilang content replication (#1392)
Improved performance of some multilang SQL queries
New datagard options to install Midgard or PEAR packages (#1204, #1352)
New datagard option to install full OpenPSA application instead of a Midgard CMS site (#1204)
Midgard now ships with SElinux setup files
Fixed SG0 authentication issue (#1390)
Several optimizations when querying multilingual objects
There is a new optional object cache (#1256)
There is a new view for displaying a deleted object in Asgard
More than 180 feature requests or bugs have been handled in this release. See the Midgard issue tracker for a full list.
Planned for next maintenance release:
More performance tuning
Unit tests for midgard-php and MidCOM DBA layers
New Midgard visual guidelines deployed more widely
Filesync git integration for collaborative site development
See the full list.
Source downloads
http://www.midgard-project.org/download/
Binary packages
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/midgardproject:/ragnaroek/
Getting started
http://www.midgard-project.org/documentation/getting-started/
Issue tracker
http://trac.midgard-project.org/roadmap
More information
Piotr Pokora, Midgard release manager piotrek.pokora(at)gmail.com
Henri Bergius, Midgard bug master henri.bergius(at)iki.fi
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Midgard Weekly Summary #77: October 16th 2009
Posted 25 days ago by henri....@iki.fi (Henri Bergius)
Welcome to Midgard Weekly Summaries, the weekly newsletter of happenings in the Midgard Project.
SElinux support is now available and will be installed by default in Midgard 8.09.6 packages. This will be very useful, especially with Red Hat
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Enterprise Linux installs
Midgard's Python bindings now use standard setuptools instead of autoconf to fit the rest of the Python ecosystem better
Multilingual Content Replication has been fixed in the Ragnaroek series. The fixes will be in 8.09.6
Midgard cron service will be run for each Midgard host, not only for each sitegroup from now on
Indexing of net.nehmer.blog entries can now be disabled per folder
$_MIDGARD and $_MIDCOM superglobals are again registered by the Midgard PHP5 extension for compatibility purposes. By default they are not used, but are useful for Ragnaland
Midgard attendance in Maemo Summit was pretty good. See the group picture!
Midgard Gathering for fall 2009 will be held on October 23rd - 25th in Helsinki, Finland. See the Facebook event.
About Midgard
Midgard is a persistent storage framework built for the replicated world. It enables developers build applications that have their data in sync between the desktop, mobile devices and web services. It also allows for easy sharing of data between users.
Midgard does this all by building on top of technologies like GLib, libgda and D-Bus. It provides developers with object-oriented programming interfaces for C, PHP and Python. Web service developers also benefit from MidCOM, a modern MVC framework for PHP development that utilizes all the advantages of the Midgard storage framework. MidCOM helps web production also by shipping a set of content management tools.
About MWS
Midgard Weekly Summaries is a newsletter for keeping up with the happenings in the Midgard community. Notices about new published summaries will be sent to the Midgard user mailing list, Qaiku #midgard channel, and are available via RSS.
The new MWS editions are edited collaboratively to make the editing burden easier. To suggest stories here bookmark them with del.icio.us tag "midgardweeklysummary". [Less]
Midgard Weekly Summary #76: October 9th 2009
Posted about 1 month ago by henri....@iki.fi (Henri Bergius)
Welcome to Midgard Weekly Summaries, the weekly newsletter of happenings in the Midgard Project.
Ragnaroek MultiLang query optimization has been a big topic this week, with Piotras, Niels and Rambo focusing on it. Some queries have gotten
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300x speed-ups in a big production databases. The optimizations will be released in upcoming 8.09.6
This weekend many Midgardians are attending the Maemo Summit 2009 in Amsterdam. With the N900s handed out during the event expect to see many Midgard tools hit Maemo-land soon
Datagard has now a command for installing Ragnaroek components
Authentication signals are now used in Mjolnir's Midgard-MVC to let different authentication handlers know if a login or logout happens
Midgard Gathering for fall 2009 will be held on October 23rd - 25th in Helsinki, Finland. See the Facebook event.
About Midgard
Midgard is a persistent storage framework built for the replicated world. It enables developers build applications that have their data in sync between the desktop, mobile devices and web services. It also allows for easy sharing of data between users.
Midgard does this all by building on top of technologies like GLib, libgda and D-Bus. It provides developers with object-oriented programming interfaces for C, PHP and Python. Web service developers also benefit from MidCOM, a modern MVC framework for PHP development that utilizes all the advantages of the Midgard storage framework. MidCOM helps web production also by shipping a set of content management tools.
About MWS
Midgard Weekly Summaries is a newsletter for keeping up with the happenings in the Midgard community. Notices about new published summaries will be sent to the Midgard user mailing list, Qaiku #midgard channel, and are available via RSS.
The new MWS editions are edited collaboratively to make the editing burden easier. To suggest stories here bookmark them with del.icio.us tag "midgardweeklysummary". [Less]
Midgard Weekly Summaries are back
Posted about 1 month ago by henri....@iki.fi (Henri Bergius)
Midgard is a very active free software project, and it is quite difficult to keep up with all the changes, decisions and discussions happening around it. Therefore Henri Bergius decided to bring the Midgard Weekly Summaries back.
Midgard
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Weekly Summary #75: October 2nd 2009
MWS has been running before, with 66 issues released between 1999 and 2002, and 8 issues in 2007. This time we follow the idea of a Collaborative MWS.
Notices about new published summaries will be sent to the Midgard user mailing list, Qaiku #midgard channel, Twitter @MidgardProject and are available via RSS. Enjoy! [Less]
Midgard Weekly Summary #75: October 2nd 2009
Posted about 1 month ago by henri....@iki.fi (Henri Bergius)
Welcome to new Midgard Weekly Summaries, the weekly newsletter of happenings in the Midgard Project. MWS has been running before, with 66 issues released between 1999 and 2002, and 8 issues in 2007. But now we're back, following the idea of a
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Collaborative MWS.
Midgard Gathering for fall 2009 will be held on October 23rd - 25th in Helsinki, Finland. See the Facebook event.
Midgard presentation in Open Mind: Henri Bergius talked about the shared path of the Nemein company and the Midgard project in the Finnish Open Source business conference. See slides and the Qaiku discussion
Memory leaks in Mjolnir have been fixed by adding new destructor methods to midgard-python and some rewrites of the PHP bings. See Piotras's blog about the Python changes
Midgard Metadata has been made optional in Mjolnir. See tickets #1332 and #1369. This makes storage and retrieval of trivial Midgard records much more efficient and makes it easier to work with legacy databases
Token-based Trusted Authentication in Mjolnir. See ticket #1036 and some PHP examples on how to work with the new authentication system. This makes Midgard easier to integrate with other identity management systems like OpenID and Shibboleth
MidCOM 8.09.5.1 released: This version of the content management interface provides several reliability fixes to the Ragnaroek series while we're still waiting for .6 to be released to the world with all the 149 issues fixed so far.
About Midgard
Midgard is a persistent storage framework built for the replicated world. It enables developers build applications that have their data in sync between the desktop, mobile devices and web services. It also allows for easy sharing of data between users.
Midgard does this all by building on top of technologies like GLib, libgda and D-Bus. It provides developers with object-oriented programming interfaces for C, PHP and Python. Web service developers also benefit from MidCOM, a modern MVC framework for PHP development that utilizes all the advantages of the Midgard storage framework. MidCOM helps web production also by shipping a set of content management tools.
About MWS
Midgard Weekly Summaries is a newsletter for keeping up with the happenings in the Midgard community. Notices about new published summaries will be sent to the Midgard user mailing list, Qaiku #midgard channel, and are available via RSS.
The new MWS editions are edited collaboratively to make the editing burden easier. To suggest stories here bookmark them with del.icio.us tag "midgardweeklysummary". [Less]
Midgard turns 10 - Ten Years of Better Web
Posted 6 months ago by henri....@iki.fi (Henri Bergius)
The Midgard Project is celebrating its 10th Anniversary on May 8th 2009. Midgard 1.0.0 was released in 1999, starting the free software project:
The Midgard Project has finally released the first public version of Midgard Application Server
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Suite. The new release contains Midgard core libraries, a PHP3-based web application server for the Apache platform and the needed web-based administration tools.
Midgard is freely-available platform for creating powerful web applications. It is fully based on Open Source software, giving you freedom to create your solutions in an open environment. Midgard is the tool for creating, modifying and maintaining dynamic database-enabled web services.
Midgard already has a quite good set of features for creating powerful web sites, and is being used with successful results by some commercial and uncommercial organizations. But this is not where the development will end; rather, the development team also has more ambitious goals about revolutionizing the way people think about web development.
Midgard developer Henri Bergius has posted a blog entry about the occasion.
You can join the celebrations either in Helsinki, Finland, or by telling about your first Midgard experiences on Qaiku. [Less]
Midgard2 9.03 "Vinland" released
Posted 7 months ago by piotrek...@gmail.com (Piotr Pokora)
Lodz, April 29th 2009 -- The Midgard Project has released stable
release of Midgard2 9.03 "Vinland" - the new generation of the
Midgard content repository.
About this release
Midgard2 9.03 is targeted at web framework and
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desktop application
developers. It provides a comprehensive set of content repository APIs
that can be used to build replicated information applications that
share their information using a common storage layer and replication
tools.
Vinland series of Midgard2 is not intended to act as a content
management system, and so no CMS tools are shipped with the release.
Midgard2 Vinland however can be used to build a CMS, or to refactor
existing CMS tools to work with a repository-centric model.
In this release we provide Content Repository API bindings for the
following programming languages: C, Python, PHP and Objective-C. D-Bus
signals are used to inform different Midgard2 applications about
things happening in the repository, enabling for example a PHP website
and a Python background process to communicate with each other.
Midgard2
Midgard2 is a content reporitory. It provides an object-oriented and
replicated environment for building data-intensive applications.
Midgard's philosophy includes building on top of a well-known and
supported GNOME libraries like glib and libgda on the system end, and
connecting with popular programming languages like PHP and Python.
Data storage can utilize SQLite with desktop and mobile applications,
or a database server like MySQL or Postgres for web application
storage.
The Midgard2 platform enables developers to define a storage structure
once and use it on both web and desktop applications, with the
possibility of easy data replication between the two.
Read more about Midgard's content repository approach:
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard2_at_fscons-your_data-everywhere
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard_and_jcr-a_look_at_two_content_repositories
http://teroheikkinen.iki.fi/blog/midgard_workshop_at_fscons
New Midgard architecture
Language independence
Midgard is also language independent and due to its powerful
architecture has proven as stable, secure and flexible solution
implemented in various environments:
PHP5 extension for web application and CMS development
Python module for desktop application and background process development
Objective-C package for Mac OS X and GNUstep developers
Database independence
The Midgard 1.x was heavily coupled with the MySQL database. The new
Midgard2 architecture is instead built on top of libgda, the GNOME
database abstraction layer. This enables Midgard to be used with
various storage engines, including:
MySQL
Postgres
SQLite
Microsoft SQL Server
Oracle
DB2
Built-in replication and metadata
All Midgard objects are automatically equipped with a consistent set
of metadata properties that can be used for access control and
workflow.
In addition, Midgard provides an API for serializing and unserializing
stored objects in XML format that can be used for replicating data
between different systems. The replication architecture can be used
for staging/live web environments or mobile applications that
synchronize between each other or a web back-end.
Planned for next Midgard2 releases
Midgard MVC, an elegant PHP MVC framework written for Midgard2
Midgard resources
Download page and changelog for latest release
Bug reporting
User and developers support:
Users' forum
Developers' forum
IRC: #midgard on irc.freenode.net
#midgard on Qaiku
About Midgard
The Midgard Framework development started in 1997 and it was initially
released as free software in May 1999. Midgard Project has since
gathered an active user and developer community, powering thousands of
web sites ranging from simple organizational intranets to large
community portals.
Midgard is being developed by an international team of professionals.
Midgard's development team includes new media designers, system
integrators and content management consultants. Midgard development
has been supported by several commercial and governmental entities
including the European Union and the Swedish Internet Foundation.
Midgard2 is free software available under the GNU LGPL license.
http://www.midgard2.org
Contacts
Piotr Pokora, Midgard release manager
piotrek.pokora(at)gmail.com
Henri Bergius, Midgard spokesman
henri.bergius(at)iki.fi
The Midgard Project
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