Weblog: category "mws"

• Asgard reborn. Work has started to build a new administrative interface for Midgard. Asgard is completely powered by Midgard's new reflection APIs and automatically supports managing all MgdSchema objects installed on a server

• Midgard on Maemo. Piotr Pokora has successfully ported Midgard 2 to the Maemo platform used for Nokia's Internet Tablets. This will open way for building mobile and replicated Midgard applications

• Midgard Python bindings on their way. Python bindings will eventually help making easy desktop applications that use Midgard as their data store

• Midgard developer meeting on June 1st - 3rd. The next Midgard developer meeting will be held in Otaniemi, Finland. There is still room for some interested Midgard users and developers

About Midgard

Midgard CMS is an Open Source Content Management System built on top of the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform. It provides a reliable, powerful and internationalized set of tools for building web sites and networked applications.

Midgard utilizes PHP as the web scripting language and provides integration interfaces on Java and C layers. Midgard's unique architecture enables it to provide services like single sign-on and replication. With these capabilities and the integrated full-text search system, Midgard is an excellent match for information-rich web sites and intranets.

Places to see Midgard in Action:

• http://www.midgard-project.org/
• http://maemo.org/
• http://www.mupe.net/
• http://www.cmswatch.com/
• http://www.vti.fi/en/
• http://protoblogr.net/

About MWS

Midgard Weekly Summaries is a newsletter for keeping up with the happenings in the Midgard community.

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".

This week has been busy with Midgard-related releases. The MidCOM 2.8 and Midgard 1.8.3 combo is very enticing, as it enables trying out the new replication system.

• Updates to Midgard roadmap. Midgard's near-future roadmap has been clarified regarding things like deprecation of PHP4 support and MidCOM 2.9 series. This means Midgard is soon joining the ranks of proper PHP5 CMSs

• Midgard 1.8.3 is out. The "Eight" release adds features like real core-powered replication and improves purging of deleted data. Grab it today!

• MidCOM 2.8 goes beta. MidCOM 2.8 series has entered release cycle. MidCOM 2.8 is a new Midgard 1.8 -only series that adds better performance, proper core metadata support and a bunch of new components and other features

• Ratings support. The net.nehmer.comments component can now be used for content ratings in addition to regular commenting. See it in action in Maemo Downloads

• Midgard developer meeting on June 1st - 3rd. The next Midgard developer meeting will be held in Otaniemi, Finland. There is still room for some interested Midgard users and developers.

About Midgard

Midgard CMS is an Open Source Content Management System built on top of the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform. It provides a reliable, powerful and internationalized set of tools for building web sites and networked applications.

Midgard utilizes PHP as the web scripting language and provides integration interfaces on Java and C layers. Midgard's unique architecture enables it to provide services like single sign-on and replication. With these capabilities and the integrated full-text search system, Midgard is an excellent match for information-rich web sites and intranets.

Places to see Midgard in Action:

• http://www.midgard-project.org/
• http://downloads.maemo.org/
• http://www.itsevaltiaat.fi/
• http://www.cmswatch.com/
• http://www.vti.fi/en/
• http://protoblogr.net/

About MWS

Midgard Weekly Summaries is a newsletter for keeping up with the happenings in the Midgard community.

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". Screenshots may also be suggested by tagging them with "midgardweeklysummary" on Flickr.

Today is the Accident Prevention Day in Finland.

• Staging to live replication. Midgard has had some degree of replication support since the early days, but as the software has evolved the requirements have become more complex. After the Exorcist-based staging-to-live solution was deprecated by new Midgard APIs, the work to build a native replication solution has been underway. Now it finally is ready for testing.

• New midgard_sitegroup and midgard_user APIs. Piotras has this week completed the last two important missing Midgard2 APIs: Sitegroup management and user management. This means that we will hopefully see first versions of the new installer soon.

• Repeating resource reservations. Arttu Manninen has been working on Midgard's resource booking calendar reported earlier in MWS #70. New features include support for repeating reservations.

• Midgard developer meeting on June 1st - 3rd. The next Midgard developer meeting will be held in Otaniemi, Finland. There is still room for some interested Midgard users and developers.

About Midgard

Midgard CMS is an Open Source Content Management System built on top of the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform. It provides a reliable, powerful and internationalized set of tools for building web sites and networked applications.

Midgard utilizes PHP as the web scripting language and provides integration interfaces on Java and C layers. Midgard's unique architecture enables it to provide services like single sign-on and replication. With these capabilities and the integrated full-text search system, Midgard is an excellent match for information-rich web sites and intranets.

Places to see Midgard in Action:

• http://www.midgard-project.org/
• http://downloads.maemo.org/
• http://www.itsevaltiaat.fi/
• http://www.cmswatch.com/
• http://www.vti.fi/en/
• http://protoblogr.net/

About MWS

Midgard Weekly Summaries is a newsletter for keeping up with the happenings in the Midgard community.

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". Screenshots may also be suggested by tagging them with "midgardweeklysummary" on Flickr.

• Midgard developer meeting on June 1st - 3rd. The next Midgard developer meeting will be held in Helsinki University of Technology campus. Both developers and users are most welcome to join the event! There have been some thoughts of combining it with a Midgard seminar during friday the 1st.

• MidCOM style editor preview. Arttu Manninen has posted information on the new MidCOM style editor. The style editor helps MidCOM site builders to customize output templates of the system to their needs. The editor is available in the MidCOM 2.7 branch

• Midgard 1.8.3 preview out. Piotr Pokora has published a preview of the upcoming 1.8.3 release into the developer downloads section. The new release fixes some command-line PHP usage issues and adds features to the replication interface

• Lots of other things are also happening. Recent commits have included things like user-provided rating support for any Midgard object, new replication services and initial Mono bindings. Some of these will be featured in the next MWS issue. Keep the suggestions coming!

About Midgard

Midgard CMS is an Open Source Content Management System built on top of the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform. It provides a reliable, powerful and internationalized set of tools for building web sites and networked applications.

Midgard utilizes PHP as the web scripting language and provides integration interfaces on Java and C layers. Midgard's unique architecture enables it to provide services like single sign-on and replication. With these capabilities and the integrated full-text search system, Midgard is an excellent match for information-rich web sites and intranets.

Places to see Midgard in Action:

• http://www.midgard-project.org/
• http://www.bangbonsomer.com/
• http://www.itsevaltiaat.fi/
• http://www.cmswatch.com/
• http://www.vti.fi/en/
• http://protoblogr.net/

About MWS

Midgard Weekly Summaries is a newsletter for keeping up with the happenings in the Midgard community.

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". Screenshots may also be suggested by tagging them with "midgardweeklysummary" on Flickr.

I'm back from the arctic hunting trip. One week away from even the cell phone network felt really good and the aurora borealis were simply gorgeous. Now it is time to again catch up with happenings in the Midgard community...

Happenings this week

• New Midgard-Java on its way. Jukka Zitting created initial Java bindings for Midgard back in 2005, but these did not keep up with the new APIs in Midgard core. Now an effort to revive them has been started by Piotr Pokora and Juhana Hirvilahti. There have also been rumors of Mono bindings

• Blogs from a Midgard newbie. Jaakko Tepponen is a new addition to Finnish Teleservice Center's web team. He is blogging about his Midgard learning experiences

• Resource calendar in PEAR. Midgard's resource booking calendar has just hit 1.0.0 in PEAR. This means it is easier than ever to manage bookable resources like meeting rooms, cars, cabins or aircraft with Midgard

• Midgard in the Finnish parliamentary elections. This year's elections had at least two candidates powering their campaign with Midgard. Midgard has lots of useful campaign features like mobile blogging and a direct marketing system capable of sending both email newsletters and SMS

About Midgard

Midgard CMS is an Open Source Content Management System built on top of the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform. It provides a reliable, powerful and internationalized set of tools for building web sites and networked applications.

Midgard utilizes PHP as the web scripting language and provides integration interfaces on Java and C layers. Midgard's unique architecture enables it to provide services like single sign-on and replication. With these capabilities and the integrated full-text search system, Midgard is an excellent match for information-rich web sites and intranets.

Places to see Midgard in Action:

• http://www.midgard-project.org/
• http://www.bangbonsomer.com/
• http://www.itsevaltiaat.fi/
• http://www.cmswatch.com/
• http://www.vti.fi/en/
• http://protoblogr.net/

About MWS

Midgard Weekly Summaries is a newsletter for keeping up with the happenings in the Midgard community.

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". Screenshots may also be suggested by tagging them with "midgardweeklysummary" on Flickr.

This week's MWS is a bit thin because of time constraints. This means some interesting things like MidCOM's new style editor will be left to MWS #70.

Happenings this week

• Midgard talk in Norway. Henri Bergius will be talking about Midgard CMS - building a business around an open source application developed as a joint venture between multiple companies in the Open Source in Business conference arranged by Den Norske Dataforening in Kristiansand on March 29th

• SyncML in OpenPsa. Thanks to Juhana Hirvilahti, latest CVS checkout of OpenPsa's SyncML plugin works for synchronizing Midgard-based calendars with various mobile devices. The plugin runs inside Funambol's SyncML framework

• Multilingual content management. Midgard supports Multilingual content management very nicely in MidCOM 2.7. Jerry Jalava reports on his implementation

• No MWS next week. I'm off hunting willow grouse in Lapland next week.

About Midgard

Midgard CMS is an Open Source Content Management System built on top of the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform. It provides a reliable, powerful and internationalized set of tools for building web sites and networked applications.

Midgard utilizes PHP as the web scripting language and provides integration interfaces on Java and C layers. Midgard's unique architecture enables it to provide services like single sign-on and replication. With these capabilities and the integrated full-text search system, Midgard is an excellent match for information-rich web sites and intranets.

Places to see Midgard in Action:

• http://www.midgard-project.org/
• http://www.bangbonsomer.com/
• http://downloads.maemo.org/
• http://www.cmswatch.com/
• http://www.vti.fi/en/
• http://protoblogr.net/

About MWS

Midgard Weekly Summaries is a newsletter for keeping up with the happenings in the Midgard community.

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". Screenshots may also be suggested by tagging them with "midgardweeklysummary" on Flickr.

Happenings this week

• midgard-core 1.8.2.2 hotfix released. The hotfix resolves some issues on multilingual Midgard sites

• New features in personnel component. Arttu Manninen has added nice Ajax-based reorganization and editing features to the personnel display component of MidCOM. Grab the latest version from PEAR!

• Midgard gets geotagging. Midgard's geo capabilities have now been amended by supporting the Flickr-style machine tags. This enables people submitting content to Midgard via email or for example Flickr integration to position and tag their content easily. The geotags will also show up in GeoRSS output.

• Midgard configuration with PHP. Piotr Pokora has added PHP bindings to managing Midgard's unified configuration. The bindings will be the basis for the new Midgard installer and enable easy creation of Midgard databases with multiple providers like MySQL, Postgres and SQLite

• Exceptions in Midgard. Midgard's development version has finally deprecated PHP4 support, enabling us to utilize features like exceptions. Next it will be interesting to start using PHP 5.2 datetimes everywhere instead of the current mixture of UNIX timestamps and datetime text fields

About Midgard

Midgard CMS is an Open Source Content Management System built on top of the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform. It provides a reliable, powerful and internationalized set of tools for building web sites and networked applications.

Midgard utilizes PHP as the web scripting language and provides integration interfaces on Java and C layers. Midgard's unique architecture enables it to provide services like single sign-on and replication. With these capabilities and the integrated full-text search system, Midgard is an excellent match for information-rich web sites and intranets.

Places to see Midgard in Action:

• http://www.midgard-project.org/
• http://www.bangbonsomer.com/
• http://downloads.maemo.org/
• http://www.cmswatch.com/
• http://www.vti.fi/en/
• http://www.itsevaltiaat.fi/
• http://protoblogr.net/

About MWS

Midgard Weekly Summaries is a newsletter for keeping up with the happenings in the Midgard community.

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". Screenshots may also be suggested by tagging them with "midgardweeklysummary" on Flickr.

Midgard Weekly Summaries resurrected

Welcome to the first issue of the resurrected Midgard Weekly Summaries! The 66 issues released before this were edited by Henri Bergius and Ken Pooley between 1999 and 2002, after which MWS went on hiatus.

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". Screenshots may also be suggested by tagging them with "midgardweeklysummary" on Flickr.

Happenings this week

• New community server. Midgard's old project server which has been hosted by Nehmer.net has started to get old, and in response a new server has been bought for the project. Midgard's project site should go live on the new server some time during the weekend. The new server is sponsored by Nemein, Anykey and Ware.it.

• Hungarian translations for Midgard. András Lévai has started translating Midgard's user interfaces to the Hungarian language. Currently core components are 28% translated and other components 21% translated.

• Maemo Blog compatible with Midgard. Maemo Blog is a mobile blogging application for Nokia's internet tablets. Maemo Blog's developer Santtu Lakkala has tested compatibility with Midgard. When completed, Maemo Blog will be an advanced travel blogging tool in the sense that it can communicate the user's geographical location to Midgard with the MetaWeblog API calls.

• Flickr photo import. Midgard's photo management component is now able to import user's photos from the Flickr photo sharing service. This enables easy moblogging by using tools like Nokia Lifeblog to post pictures on Flickr and then having Midgard automatically import them from there.

• Vote Midgard for the 2007 Open Source CMS summit. Henri Bergius has proposed session Manage your personal information space with Midgard to the conference. The event will be held on March 22nd and 23rd in Sunnyvale, California. If you're interested in hearing how Midgard integrates with the various social web services out there, go and vote for the proposal.

About Midgard

Midgard CMS is an Open Source Content Management System built on top of the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform. It provides a reliable, powerful and internationalized set of tools for building web sites and networked applications.

Midgard utilizes PHP as the web scripting language and provides integration interfaces on Java and C layers. Midgard's unique architecture enables it to provide services like single sign-on and replication. With these capabilities and the integrated full-text search system, Midgard is an excellent match for information-rich web sites and intranets.

Places to see Midgard in Action:

• http://www.midgard-project.org/
• http://www.bangbonsomer.com/
• http://downloads.maemo.org/
• http://www.cmswatch.com/
• http://www.vti.fi/en/
• http://protoblogr.net/