Blog entries
Since today is Epiphany, the last of Christmas holidays, I thought to post a screenshot of our xmas-themed staff page before it goes the way of the Christmas tree:
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Frustrated with how some Midgard-powered community sites were being spammed (their fault, not using CAPTCHA or registrations, I know), I decided to add a little feature to MidCOM's forum and page co...
Since Midgard does now Python nicely alongside PHP, some Midgardians have recently been looking at Django as an optional web framework to use with Midgard's replicated storage system.
Looking at ...
Lex Nokia, the controversial snooping law is about to pass in the Finnish Parliament pretty soon, the latest of a series of clueless, unconstitutional laws passed because our MPs are just hopelessly...
Today's N97 launch reminded me of a big mental difference between using Nokia or Apple phones: with Apple, you're merely a consumer, where Nokia's devices allow you to participate in the informatio...
Prompted by a recent COSS news release, I thought to write about two Summer of Code success stories:
In addition to Google's Summer of Code, the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions (COSS) ...
Maemo.org, the community site for Nokia's mobile Linux environment has this week been upgraded to 8.09.2 Ragnaroek, the much faster and long-term supported version of the Midgard framework. Thanks t...
JP Rangaswami is writing about how innovation should happen as a dialogue between the developers and the users of the product. As an example of how innovation used to happen, he dug up Henry Ford's ...
At Nemein we do maintenance for quite a few servers of our customers. While some customers have their own Linux distribution preference - usually RHEL - in most cases we have a say what distribution...
Ten years ago, 1998
Started my first "real job" as a site building in an ad agency
Moved out of the commune
We were running already the first production Midgard site
Was in process of handing Harm...
The second Midgard Gathering of 2008 is this weekend in Otaniemi, Espoo. Happened so far:
Thursday
Sebastian Bergmann gave us a training session on PHP software testing, as as result we now hav...
Damn. As Slate put it:
Distance also magnifies the impact of negative feelings like longing and suspicion; according to one study, intercity lovers are more likely to be depressed
What next? I...
According to recent Helsingin Sanomat poll, 73% percent of Finns aged 55-64 years wanted to "control" the Internet, removing freedom of speech as necessary, in the light of the recent school shootin...
From the Midgard Project:
The Midgard Project switched to a new synchronized release model with the 8.09 "Ragnaroek LTS" release. Synchronized release model means that a major release of Midgard ...
Gadgetopia has a post on how CMS's should provide an API for content filtering. Since Midgard is persistent storage API first, and CMS only second we obviously have nice APIs for doing exactly this....
As I didn't go to LatinoWare this year, the extended summer is now officially over, and therefore it is time to change to autumn garb, also on my online identity. Background remains the same:
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Since the Midgard Gathering is next week, I thought it would be time to write down some conversation starters related to it.
Clear vision
One important thing we need to settle on is a clear vi...

