Henri Bergius

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: ...

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...

Harmaasudet, the living history group we started in mid-90s, and the reason why I originally got into software, recently migrated back into the Midgard platform. Their webmaster and Nemein al...

LinkedIn, the popular resume maintenance tool just got a little smarter: they added an applications catalogue that can make your profile there more dynamic. This is good as then potential business p...

Last weekend we went to the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit in Gothenburg to talk a bit about the new direction Midgard has been taking: making it a general replicated persistent storage l...

I wrote earlier how a free software project never stops as long as there are people interested in it. Looking at Midgard's Ohloh analysis, I found a nice example: Can you see a change when fo...