Midgard Weekly Summary #78: October 25th 2009

Welcome to Midgard Weekly Summaries, the weekly newsletter of happenings in the Midgard Project. This weekend has been busy with the Midgard Gathering for fall 2009 in Helsinki, Finland, and so there are many things going on:

• Midgard 8.09.6 "AmsterGard", the latest iteration of the Ragnaroek LTS series was released. This includes  some 180 fixes and improvements, and is recommended to all Ragnaroek users
• In addition to all the Linux distributions catered by OBS, Midgard 8.09.6 is also available in MacPorts
• Alexey ran Midgard2 Mjolnir through the clang static analyzer to find lurking bugs before the release. See the report
• Midgard2 installation directories were changed to "midgard2" throughout the system
• Midgard photo galleries can now generate square thumbnails thanks to Solt
• Work on Midgard Runtime has been started by MDK. This new revision of what was formerly known as App Builder is using Qt and can be ported to both Linux and Mac. With the Midgard Runtime you can deploy any Midgard-based web application as a local desktop app
• Photos from the Midgard Gathering are already available on Flickr
• Midgard2-Python-Qt4 tutorial was held to Tero Heikkinen. The example app code is available on GitHub
• MidCOM3 switched to Pake from Phing that was formerly used for setup and scaffolding
• Midgard2 10.03 will be developed with codename "Ratatoskr", the messenger squirrel that scampers around the tree of life in Viking mythology. Ratatoskr is small and fast

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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