Posted
over 40 years
ago
by
Piotr Pokora
1.7.6.1 hotfix packages
midgard-core
fixed float type for Query Builder constraints
midgard-php
MgdSchema types' parameter metod uses anonymous mode
midgard-data
fixed cache directory permission
Download page
Posted
over 40 years
ago
by
Henri Bergius
Torben Nehmer, the Midgard IRC server maintainer just wrote the
following note to the developer list:
unfortunately, the server which hosted the IRC daemon is
now completly broken. Thus, until further notice
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, IRC will
be offline. We currently working on getting an alternative
running, but it might take a few days until we have one. I
will keep you posted, until then I ask for your patience.
We will update this item as soon as the services are back in
shape.
Updated 2006-10-09The IRC discussions are now managed on #midgard in irc.freenode.net [Less]
Posted
over 40 years
ago
by
Piotr Pokora
Midgard is a capable open source content management system for
running mid-to-high-end websites. In addition to the built-in content
management features, Midgard also provides a highly object-oriented
component architecture for building
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interactive web applications that
integrate seamlessly with the website.
Get started with Midgard 1.8 today
Midgard CMS provides a powerful toolkit for web publishing and building interactive web applications. The features include:
Comprehensive authoring toolsWebsite managementMultilingual supportUser management and access controlWeb development
Read more about features and learn how to create content.
Planned for next releases
Next 1.8.0 release: October 2006First alpha release of 1.9 branch : October 2006 Automated database MgdSchema management and table initializationDeprecation of the classic functional Midgard API in favor of
MgdSchema and Query BuilderDeprecation of repligard and apache1 support.Core's library API for replication and undelete Integrated midgard-java package
Midgard resources
Download page and changelog for latest releaseGetting started with MidgardScreenshotsDocumentation Bugs reporting
User and developers support:
Mailing list
http://www.midgard-project.org/discussion/user-forum/http://www.midgard-project.org/discussion/developer-forum/IRC: #midgard on irc.nehmer.net
About Midgard
The Midgard Content Management Framework was initially released in May
1999, and has since gathered a sizable user and developer community.
Midgard powers thousands of web sites ranging from simple organizational
websites to major portals like New Zealand eGovernment site and
Playbill.
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 is
being supported by several commercial and governmental entities
including the European Union.
Piotr Pokora, Midgard release manager
piotrek.pokora@gmail.com
Henri Bergius, Midgard spokesman
henri.bergius@iki.fi [Less]
Posted
over 40 years
ago
by
Piotr Pokora
Lodz, October 16th 2006 -- The Midgard Project has released stable,
1.8 release version of the Midgard Open Source Content Management System.
Midgard's 1.8 branch focuses on improved stability for Midgard2 technology
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preview features introduced in 1.7 branch.
Midgard
Midgard is a capable open source content management system for
running mid-to-high-end websites. In addition to the built-in content
management features, Midgard also provides a highly object-oriented
component architecture for building interactive web applications that
integrate seamlessly with the website.
Midgard provides unique technology so can be easily integrated with
any kind of environment. From web applications ( Midgard CMS with its
component framework - MidCOM ) to typical desktop ones ( Midgard
Framework ). From personal blog to corporate portals.
Midgard is also language independent and due to its powerfull architecture is proved as stable,
secure and flexible solution implemented in high range of environmental targets:
PHP or Java applicationsPHP extensionApache moduleGTK desktop applications C applications.
Get started with Midgard 1.8 today
Midgard CMS provides a powerful toolkit for web publishing and building interactive web applications. The features include:
Comprehensive authoring toolsWebsite managementMultilingual supportUser management and access controlWeb development
Read more about features and learn how to create content.
Planned for next releases
First alpha release of 1.9 branch : October 2006 Automated database MgdSchema management and table initializationDeprecation of the classic functional Midgard API in favor of
MgdSchema and Query BuilderDeprecation of repligard and apache1 support.Core's library API for replication and undelete Integrated midgard-java package
Midgard resources
Download page and changelog for latest releaseGetting started with MidgardScreenshotsDocumentation Bugs reporting
User and developers support:
Mailing list
http://www.midgard-project.org/discussion/user-forum/http://www.midgard-project.org/discussion/developer-forum/IRC: #midgard on irc.freenode.net
About Midgard
The Midgard Content Management Framework was initially released in May
1999, and has since gathered a sizable user and developer community.
Midgard powers thousands of web sites ranging from simple organizational
websites to major portals like New Zealand eGovernment site and
Playbill.
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 is
being supported by several commercial and governmental entities
including the European Union.
Piotr Pokora, Midgard release manager
piotrek.pokora@gmail.com
Henri Bergius, Midgard spokesman
henri.bergius@iki.fi
The Midgard Project [Less]
Posted
over 40 years
ago
by
Tarjei Huse
Oslo, October 27th 2006 -- The Midgard Project has released version 2.6.0 of MidCOM - the Midgard Components Framework.
This is the first MgdSchema-driven version of MidCOM that is able to utilize features found in latest Midgard releases.
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MidCOM is the default Content Management interface in Midgard CMS,
and provides developers a production-proven architecture for building
new web applications. With the MidCOM framework PHP applications have
powerful localization, configuration, style handling and data abstraction
features.
Changes in MidCOM 2.6 series
This release has brought a lot of changes to the MidCOM framework:
* New on-site editing interface
- Floating menu bar for accessing all site management features
- AJAX "click to edit" WYSIWYG editing of content
- Integrated contextual help screens
- User interface messages powered by ProtoGrowl
- Drag and drop navigation organization
* Datamanager2 - rewritten data rendering and editing system
- TinyMCE for WYSIWYG editing
- Integrated image and file insertion pop-up
- New widgets like an AJAX "chooser" and CAPTCHA entry
- Schemas can be used as page types used in style template loading and CSS
body classes
* Database Abstraction Layer for all MgdSchema types
- Access Control Lists (ACLs) for managing permissions
- Integrated Revision Control System (RCS) enabling browsing and reverting
changes in all content
- Event handlers and triggers for different database activities
- Components can register their own MgdSchema types
- Components can register _watchers_ to get notified about changes in database
- Automatic handling of access control and content visibility checks when
fetching objects
* PEAR packaging
- MidCOM is now fully PEAR packaged and available in the
_pear.midcom-project.org_ channel
- Components can be installed and upgraded as separate PEAR packages
- Support for inter-package dependencies
- _Style packages_ support for installing new style templates
- Prototype and Script.aculo.us javascript libraries come bundled with MidCOM
* Performance improvements
- Largely refactored Navigation Access Point (NAP) system for better
performance
- Possibility to use _memcached_ for caching ACL and object tree information
- Possibility to use Squid for caching generated pages
* New libraries available
- midcom.services.at - Scheduled execution of operations
- fi.protie.navigation - Flexible site navigation renderer
- org.openpsa.notifications - User notification library supporting email, SMS
and other means of notifying
- net.nemein.ping - Weblog update ping notifier
- org.routamc.positioning - Geographical positioning of users and content,
making MidCOM a Geospatial Content Management System (GeoCMS)
- net.nemein.tag - Content tagging and retrieval using folksonomies
- org.openpsa.qbpager - Paged browsing interface for Query Builder results
- ...and many more. There are over 70 MidCOM components available in public
Requirements and installation
This release requires Midgard 1.7.6 or newer and PHP 4.3 or newer.
Midgard 1.7 users must manually upgrade their PEAR installation and
make some changes to the database format. With Midgard 1.8 the database
changes and package installations are automatically handled by
Datagard.
Installation of MidCOM is outlined here:
http://www.midgard-project.org/documentation/installing-midcom-with -pear
Upgrading
Upgrading from MidCOM 2.4 is outlined here:
http://www.midgard-project.org/documentation/upgrading-midcom-from-2-4-to-2-6/
Issue tracking
Please file your bug reports and enhancement requests in the Midgard Gforge issue tracker:
http://gforge.nehmer.net/tracker/?group_id=6
More information
Tarjei Huse, maintainer
tarjei@nu.no
Henri Bergius, core developer
henri.bergius@iki.fi [Less]
Posted
over 40 years
ago
by
Henri Bergius
The Swedish II-Stiftelsen foundation (IIS) has approved to fund Anykey solutions to support MidCOM/Midgard development.
Midgard is a capable open source content management system for running mid-to-high-end websites. In addition to the
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built-in content management features, Midgard also provides a highly object-oriented component architecture for building interactive web applications that integrate seamlessly with the website.
The Swedish foundation II-Stiftelsen (IIS), the "Internet infrastructure foundation", has the administration of the toplevel domain .se as one of its main tasks.
"The purpose of the foundation is to promote a good stability in the Internet infrastructure in Sweden and promote research, education and teaching in data and telecommunication, especially with focus on Internet."
IIS runs a fund that hands out money every year to applicants. To help and fund development that improves Internet and Internet development in Sweden.
Anykey solutions will use the funds to aid the development of midcom.admin.help (Online help viewer) and adapt other modules to make use of the help library.
The library will display contextual help messages inside the Midgard the user interface using materials shipped with the applications to aid site builders and users when constructing a website.
Some work will also be done on the Midgard Site Creation Wizard to install and make it easier for people to create new websites.
More information
Midgard project: http://www.midgard-project.org/
IIS: http://www.iis.se/
Johan Bernhardsson, Linux/CMS/Network Consultant
Anykey solutions
Phone: 46-13-73244
Mobile: 46-705-111751
Fax: 46-13-73190
Email/Jabber/Sip: johan@anykey.se
Web: www.anykey.se [Less]
Posted
over 40 years
ago
by
Henri Bergius
Andrew Turner from the GeoRSS project has a quick writeup on Midgard's geospatial content management features:
Midgard, a very full-featured CMS that is being used to replace Maemo.org has added a lot of functionality for supporting
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publishing & consuming GeoRSS.
Midgard's geographic positioning system enables tracking user's position using multiple sources and automatically positioning objects based on their timing. [Less]
Posted
over 40 years
ago
by
Henri Bergius
The MidCOM PEAR channel will be having a scheduled downtime between Friday Dec 1st 2006 12:00 GMT and Sunday Dec 3rd 2006.
Downtime is due to electric work in the Protie building.
Posted
over 40 years
ago
by
Henri Bergius
Jyrki Wahlstedt has packaged Midgard CMS into the DarwinPorts distribution. DarwinPorts is a collection of easy-to-install Open Source packages for Mac OS X.
We're currently in process of updating the Midgard installation instructions for Mac.
