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I know, according to roadmap we all should be now focusing in hammering out bugs in Midgard 8.09, or as we call it, "Ragnaroek" instead of working on MidCOM 3. But Tero had a specific problem he nee...

Google's Wikipedia competitor Knol launched a while back. It seeks to make writing informative entries more appealing to authors by offering a cut of advertisement revenue from the Knol pages. This c...

Rasmus Lerdorf's excellent talk on PHP and simplicity in FrOSCon introduced me to concept of green programming. To quote the Green Programming blog: Just like we should aspire to use renewable ene...

Cross-posting this to Planet GNOME, as it is sure to be interesting to the community there, especially as Midgard is becoming much more than just CMS: There is a project in works by me to rewrite ...

A thousand years ago, men from my lands traveled here in search of opportunities and adventure. Now, due to intercontinental relationships and working permits, I follow their footsteps. While ...

I'm again in the FrOSCon conference in Sankt Augustin, having found the conference last time reasonably big, but relaxed. I will be giving my GeoClue talk again on Sunday (16:30 in HS5). Here a...

Yahoo! Fire Eagle, kind of "GeoClue for the Web" was released last week. It acts as a central hub collection position information from services like Plazes and Dopplr, and with a simple PHP script, J...

MidCOM is a PHP MVC framework where you create a site by building a tree structure and assigning components for the various folders. Each component is its own PHP application that can handle all URL ...

Today our ISP is having major power failures, and therefore many of our web services are down. For situations like this, it is good to establish an alternative channel of communications, and for us t...

The release synchronicity plan was accepted, and therefore Midgard will be switching from SVN to git, and the concept of feature branches. With feature branches the idea is that each feature or bu...