Midgard Weekly Summary #75: October 2nd 2009

Welcome to new Midgard Weekly Summaries, the weekly newsletter of happenings in the Midgard Project. MWS has been running before, with 66 issues released between 1999 and 2002, and 8 issues in 2007. But now we're back, following the idea of a Collaborative MWS.

• Midgard Gathering for fall 2009 will be held on October 23rd - 25th in Helsinki, Finland. See the Facebook event.
• Midgard presentation in Open Mind: Henri Bergius talked about the shared path of the Nemein company and the Midgard project in the Finnish Open Source business conference. See slides and the Qaiku discussion
• Memory leaks in Mjolnir have been fixed by adding new destructor methods to midgard-python and some rewrites of the PHP bings. See Piotras's blog about the Python changes
• Midgard Metadata has been made optional in Mjolnir. See tickets #1332 and #1369. This makes storage and retrieval of trivial Midgard records much more efficient and makes it easier to work with legacy databases
• Token-based Trusted Authentication in Mjolnir. See ticket #1036 and some PHP examples on how to work with the new authentication system. This makes Midgard easier to integrate with other identity management systems like OpenID and Shibboleth
• MidCOM 8.09.5.1 released: This version of the content management interface provides several reliability fixes to the Ragnaroek series while we're still waiting for .6 to be released to the world with all the 149 issues fixed so far.

About Midgard
Midgard is a persistent storage framework built for the replicated world. It enables developers build applications that have their data in sync between the desktop, mobile devices and web services. It also allows for easy sharing of data between users.

Midgard does this all by building on top of technologies like GLib, libgda and D-Bus. It provides developers with object-oriented programming interfaces for C, PHP and Python. Web service developers also benefit from MidCOM, a modern MVC framework for PHP development that utilizes all the advantages of the Midgard storage framework. MidCOM helps web production also by shipping a set of content management tools.

About MWS
Midgard Weekly Summaries is a newsletter for keeping up with the happenings in the Midgard community. Notices about new published summaries will be sent to the Midgard user mailing list, Qaiku #midgard channel, and are available via RSS.

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