Midgard Weekly Summary #82: December 1st 2009

Welcome to Midgard Weekly Summaries, the weekly newsletter of happenings in the Midgard Project. This week's big news was new version of Qaiku, the Midgard-powered microblogging platform. Qaiku uses many Midgard MVC features, including geolocation.

• Midgard2 for Maemo 5. Mjolnir and python-midgard2 are now available in the Extras Testing repository for Maemo 5. Nokia N900 owners will want to try them out and vote
• Mjolnir in MacPorts. Midgard2 9.09 is now available for Mac users via MacPorts
• Running MidCOM 8.09 on Midgard2 is now possible thanks to the new midgardmvc_helper_ragnaland component that bootstraps a Midgard1-like environment to run MidCOM
• MidCOM3 is now Midgard MVC to clear confusion with MidCOM from Midgard1. This includes class naming, with the core now being accessible through midgardmvc_core::get_instance()
• Midgard MVC configuration. The new configuration stack that enables injectors to modify configuration in run-time and provides a 25% performance boost
• MgdSchema types can now contain class-level documentation. This helps in making the MgdSchema types more accessible for application developers
• FirePHP logging in Ragnaroek MidCOM is now possible. This means you can get all debug information from the Midgard1 site straight into your Firebug

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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