Midgard Weekly Summary #76: October 9th 2009

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• Ragnaroek MultiLang query optimization has been a big topic this week, with Piotras, Niels and Rambo focusing on it. Some queries have gotten 300x speed-ups in a big production databases. The optimizations will be released in upcoming 8.09.6
• This weekend many Midgardians are attending the Maemo Summit 2009 in Amsterdam. With the N900s handed out during the event expect to see many Midgard tools hit Maemo-land soon
• Datagard has now a command for installing Ragnaroek components
• Authentication signals are now used in Mjolnir's Midgard-MVC to let different authentication handlers know if a login or logout happens
• Midgard Gathering for fall 2009 will be held on October 23rd - 25th in Helsinki, Finland. See the Facebook event.

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.

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