• 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

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