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.

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