Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 23:00:59 +0200 (EET)
From: Henri Bergius Henri.Bergius@iki.fi
Greetings!
There has been lots of development projects going around Midgard
this week and the situation looks quite promising. Some of the
Midgard 2 code is finally available, and we’ve also seen some new
volunteers popping up.
This summary will probably be the last one this year, but we
look at being able to publish more information again in early
January as Midgard 2 will be nearing beta phase.
But now to this week’s announcements.
Current versions:
Stable: 1.2.5 (Mad King)
Devel.: 1.3
Midgard 2 schedule
Jukka has been very busy with some other projects and so the
schedule with Midgard 2 has been slightly postponed. We hoped to
publish an early beta already this Christmas but the code won’t
quite be ready for that yet.
Most of the Midgard 2 core code is now in the CVS, but that is
mostly of interest to people who are looking at contributing there.
The current code is not in a compilable state, but Jukka has said
an alpha (as in compiles and runs but doesn’t quite do anything)
should be available within some days.
Meanwhile, there has been lots of interesting discussion and
research projects going on around what features will get to Midgard
2. The first quarter of 2000 will definitely be interesting.
There is a short note from Jukka about the current state of the
code in the midgard-dev archives.
->
http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard-dev&m=94547224528250&w=2
Midgard hints and tips
David Guerizec has started publishing a collection of useful
code snippets and tricks for Midgard developers.
The articles can be found from the Documentation section of
Midgard’s site.
Currently there are four code examples available:
User preferences Three functions to manage the user’s
preferences with ease and elegance.
Easy shortcuts for intranet An easy way to bookmark your
internal pages using user’s preferences. Hint: These functions need
the functions init_prefs, set_pref and del_pref from the first
article “User preferences”.
Update helper functions If you never remember the number or the
order of the parameters of the mgd_update_xxxx functions, here is a
useful set of helper functions.
mgd_get_xxxx_by_name(…) functions Did you ever wanted to fetch
Midgards records by their names instead of ids? With this new set
of functions, this is now possible…
David is interested in adding more material to this section, so
if you have useful code snippets available, please send them his
way.
-> http://www.midgard-project.org/topic/265.html
Russian Midgard articles in PrefNews
Alexander Bokovoy, the author of Russian Midgard, has started
writing a weekly column on Midgard to the Russian e-zine
PrefNews.
This column will enable Russian Web developers to learn about
Midgard’s architecture and usage more easily. The site also
features a talkback forum so we will also receive valuable
questions and feedback from there.
We look forward to seeing at least some of the material
published there also translated to English for broader
audience.
-> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1416.html
Working on Midgard tutorial
We’ve started writing a Midgard usage tutorial with Emile Heyns
and Ron Parker.
The tutorial is being worked on in DocBook format via Midgard’s
CVS repository. In its early stage it will contain only two parts,
the creation of a simple Midgard site and a Yahoo-like Web index,
but more areas are being planned.
We would welcome any contributions to this project, as good
tutorial material is very important for newcomers to the Midgard
development methodology.
Related to this, Alexander Bokovoy is gathering a team of
Russian Midgard users for translating Midgard’s documentation into
Russian to complement the localized version of the application
server. Contact him if you are interested.
The latest version of the tutorial can always be found from
Midgard’s site.
-> http://www.midgard-project.org/tutorial/
About Midgard
Midgard is a freely-available Web application development and
publishing platform based on the popular PHP scripting language. It
is an Open Source development project, giving you the freedom to
create your solutions in an open environment. Midgard is the tool
for creating, modifying and maintaining dynamic database-enabled
web services.
-> http://www.midgard-project.org
About MWS
The Midgard Weekly Summary is a newsletter for the Midgard user
and developer community.
The MWS is currently being distributed in following mediums:
-The Midgard Project’s Web site
-> http://www.midgard-project.org
-Linux Weekly News
-> http://www.lwn.net
-Linux Today
-> https://www.linuxtoday.com
-Linux Developer’s Network
-> http://linuxdev.net
-Open Source Writers Group
-> http://www.oswg.org
-Midgard mailing list
If you would like to release it elsewhere, please contact Henri
Bergius
(Henri.Bergius@iki.fi).
Previous issues of Midgard Weekly Summary can be found archived
at the Midgard web site.
-> http://www.midgard-project.org/topic/169.html
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