Midgard is quite a huge framework, and so caching is needed to keep things efficient. To that effect, MidCOM 2.4 in 2005 added a major feature of caching generated pages until they needed reconstructing.

Amazon’s e-book reader Kindle was launched today, and it looks quite interesting:

Version 0.7.0 of CouchDb was released yesterday. CouchDb is a very interesting object database that powers our Ajatus CRM.

While there is no public release yet, I though to give a heads-up on a project we’re working on with Jerry: Ajatus is a distributed, or peer-to-peer CRM system built on top of CouchDb.

Karma: The total effect of a person’s actions and conduct during the successive phases of his existence, regarded as determining his next incarnation. (wiktionary)

GigaOM has a very interesting article on the new N810 internet tablet, and how it will be relevant for the developing world:

Asgard is the new administrative interface for Midgard we’ve been working on for the 1.9 release. Today its welcome page just got a lot more useful as we added a way of listing recently modified objects of any type and performing mass actions on them:

Inspired by Kore Nordmann’s post Why are you using BBcodes?, Midgard now has integrated support for the HTML Purifier library. From the HTML Purifier site:

Mapstraction is a javascript library that abstracts the usage of the various web map systems out there. Using it you can display Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Yahoo! and other maps with same javascript code. And now also OpenLayers, a free software map implementation.

We found out a while back that our company, Nemein now has AAA (the highest) credit rating. Quite an important milestone for a free software company started during the dot com bust!