Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 19:47:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:  <parker@momma.mi-recordz.com>
To: midgard@greywolves.org, lwn@lwn.net, marty@linuxtoday.com, 
Subject: MWSvol39

Greetings!

MWS for 23rd of May, 2000 (#39)


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Current versions:
        Stable: 1.2.5 'Mad King'
        Devel.: 1.4beta.3
	Oracle: 1.2.5 Oracle 8i

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I'm a little overwhelmed with all the Midgard related news. There are many
developments and I'm afraid that I can't keep up with everything. If 
there's any news that isn't being reported or treated with enough detail,
I encourage anybody to contribute articles and suggestions. Please email
me at parker@mi-recordz.com

Thank you

Ron Parker

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CodeSnippet Facilitates Sharing Of Scripted Midgard Applications

Alexander Borkovoy, official maintainer of the Midgard 1.4 development
tree, has added CodeSnippet to the Midgard CVS. CodeSnippet provides a
convenient method for sharing scripted applications. Borkovoy explained,
if the Midgard Administration site is a modular CodeSnippet, upgrades to
the site can be incorporated without breaking a customized site that's
being run by a local administrator.

One of the first applications that will demonstrate the functionality of
CodeSnippets is David Guerzic's  Midgard calendar application.
"CodeSnippet provides a unified way for distributing and using small parts
of scripted code," said Borkovoy. "For example, David (David Guerzic,
Midgard developer) is working on Calendaring support which will be done as
a set of rendering functions distributed as a CodeSnippet. You could
include it into your page and get a working calender without coding it
yourself."

Guerizec's calender will have many of the same features as Yahoo's
MyCalender. "I'm writing calender code to be integrated in snippets
(CodeSnippets)," said Guerizec. "Actually, it is a simple PHP class that
can (and will) be extended to take into account the different operations
that can be done on events." Anotheroption is to have a page on a host
that delivers the source of a snippet, and a client host could then get
this page to include it in their own snippet tree."

While CodeSnippet has been comitted to the Midgard CVS, it hasn't been
fully intregrated with Emile Heyns' recently contributed SiteGroup
application. SiteGroups segregates records from Midgard's single database
into virtual databases. Users are only able to see the records for the
SiteGroup that they've logged in with. While the CodeSnippet system
doesn't use SiteGroups, in general it will respect SiteGroups because
CodeSnippet is a common resource. "For the moment, Midgard does not take
care of SiteGroup for snippets but Alexander is working on it," said
Guerizec. 

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Midgard Web Site Redesign To Include Mail Archives:

The midgard-project.org site redesign includes the entire mailing list
archive. "Our mail archive will have all the mail, not just from the point
where we started with MARC, so it's informative background reading," said
Heyns.

While the new design isn't publically available, Henry Bergius, Midgard
co-founder and programmer, said he'll be working on the re-design this
week and hopes that the new site will go on-line within a week.

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Russian Mandrake Appendix Edition To Ship With Precompiled Midgard 1.4b3.

Alexander Borkovoy said, "There is no URL yet but I know most info because
I'm the person who packages Midgard for the Appendix, as well as Russian
apache, mod_php3, mod_perl, and probably php4. Appendix will include
mofset technology for clustering in the kernel (Mandrake 7.0 already has
this package on 3rd disk but now kernel will be ready out of the box for
mosfet)."

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Midgard Developers Meeting Scheduled For June 18-19th, 2000

Michael Ed, of Roxtec International, is arranging a two day Midgard
developers only meeting in Karlskrona, Sweden. The seminar is scheduled
for June 18th and 19th, 2000. A list of 25 participants for the meeting
includes Henri Bergius, Midgard co-founder. The itinerary of seminar
topics includes; availibility, functionality, installation, history and a
case study. 

Contact information, maps and a detailed itinerary of events can be found
at: http://www.marlowes.com/ 

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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 own solutions in an open 
environment. Midgard is the tool for creating, 
modifying and maintaining dynamic 
database-enabled web services.

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org

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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
   -> http://www.linuxtoday.com

 -Linux Developer's Network
   -> http://linuxdev.net

 -LinuxProgramming
   -> http://www.linuxprogramming.com

 -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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