On thursday afternoon the Nemein team together with Edi from Dialogi will pack into Rambo's Land Rover and take the Midgard-powered ferry to the Midgard Gathering in Linköping, Sweden. The meeting agenda has been available for a while now. To complement it, here is my list of talking points: MgdSchema is the new object abstraction back-end for Midgard proposed by...
The filesystem migration of the MidCOM component framework has now progressed enough that it actually powers this site, as reported by the HTML generator meta tag: Midgard/1.5.0/SG MidCOM/1.9.0+cvs.2004.11.05 PHP/4.3.9-1 If things are going this smoothly, the following will only be needed before we can replace the old MidCOM 1.4.x tree with the mRFC 0006-compliant version: The rest of the components...
Our new apartment is located in the Five Corners district of Helsinki. A nice two-room flat on 7th floor with view over the roofs of the city. It had been renovated for the previous inhabitant, so it is in almost brand new shape - even though the building was constructed in the 60s.
While the new visuals are nice, the even bigger change is in the information architecture. Much of the site is now driven by our internal IT systems, including the automatically updated client lists and news postings. The publication of the new site marks the final stages of Nemein's transformation from a venture-funded proprietary software company to an Open Source consultancy....
After much hard work by Piotras and the rest of the Midgard team, Midgard 1.6 is now the stable release of the Midgard CMS. This is very cool since it brings lots of new features like MultiLang and datagard available for the Midgard population. The release announcement says about the new data package: The revised Midgard-data package provides an out-of-the-box...
Major Finnish retailer Anttila was given the Finnish Quality Award 2004 yesterday by Speaker of Parliament Paavo Lipponen. Excellence Finland has an announcement on the award in Finnish. I've worked together with Virpi Mikkonen and the rest of the Anttila team in several related projects, and they are really committed to the quality process. The projects we've implemented have included...
Planet Midgard is the blog aggregator displaying what's going on in the Midgard community. Planet Midgard is now running latest version of net.nemein.rss aggregator, meaning a bunch of new things: Support for feeds in Atom format (previously we could aggregate only RSS feeds)UTF-8 support, meaning that we can now aggregate blog postings in non-western characters (especially Russian seems to be...
Based on my earlier blog entry, there was an interesting talk in OSCOM 4 about CSS Naming Conventions. My after-talk discussions with Thorsten Scherler led to development of OSCOM specification for CSS Naming Conventions. I've now used the XHTML skeleton from the specification for some websites, and have been generally quite happy with it. Here is a simple Midgardization of...
Eero has been working on OpenPSA Sales lately to support the CRM deployment Helsinki Business Polytechnic (Helia) is now doing.
For years Midgard application development has been constrained by the fact that most of the programming work has had to be made through a browser window. Now there is a solution through WebDAV. Earlier usage of better editors has been possible through two slightly hacky solutions: PHPmole is a nice IDE for PHP. However, it is written using the PHP-GTK...