content repository

s you probably know, we at IKS have been working to decoupled content management through semantic technologies. CreateJS, together with the VIE library provide the user-facing part of this approach.

I’ve recently blogged about how we use Drupal as a Content Repository.

I wanted to write a lessons learned follow up post to see what worked out and what we needed to adjust.

Yesterday the contracts were signed to acquire Infigo as part of Nemein. Infigo, is a consulting company focused on mobile development and web using open source tools.

You'll probably at least know their CTO, Jerry of the USB finger fame.

We hosted a full-day Symfony2 workshop for some of the Finnish Midgard developer community today.

As I've written before, Midgard is now transitioning to Symfony2 as our PHP web framework of choice, and this workshop was organized to support that.

We had the PHP Content Repository workshop at Liip in Zurich earlier this week.

During the time we also discussed some other code reuse, like utilizing parts of the Symfony2 framework in Midgard.

The Liip guys mentioned Silex, a cool micro-framework written on top of Symfony2.

The Midgard Project started to implement the PHPCR interfaces for their content repository.

From their website: Midgard is a persistent storage framework built for the replicated world. It enables developers build applications that have their data in sync between the desktop, mobile devices and web services.

It also allows for easy sharing of data between users.

You may have noticed that quite a lot is happening in the Midgard land.

Nowadays Midgard2 itself is a generic content repository that can be used for both desktop and web applications. Midgard MVC is a generic web framework for PHP5 that can be used with Midgard2 or without it.

Midgard: "The Midgard Project has released the fourth maintenance release of Midgard2 10.05.4 "Ratatoskr" LTS.

Ratatoskr LTS is a Long Term Support version of Midgard2 Content Repository."

In the next-generation Midgard Content Repository we decided to focus on GObject Introspection for providing bindings to various programming languages like Python and JavaScript.

The advantages for automatically generated bindings are quite obvious when compared to the situation with older Midgard versions where we had to maintain them manually.

Unfortunately PHP didn't have GObject Introspection support, but that is about to change.