Mjolnir - new stable Midgard2 release
Yes, we did it :) Here is it latest and greatest Midgard2 stable release.
View ArticleVala bindings for Midgard2
Today I got some help on #vala irc channel (thanks nemequ!), and I must say I am very happy to see Midgard API working with vala bindings. I am also happy cause in this case, there's no need to write...
View ArticleGwibber with SQLite and Midgard2
After reading this article about Gwibber and CouchDB, I thought about real numbers. What is the real difference between CouchDb and SQLite performance? I decided to measure it and - as an addition -...
View ArticleMidgard and PyGi
Here's simple script: Midgard2 and PyGi: from gi.repository import Midgard config = Midgard.Config() config.props.dbtype = "SQLite" config.set_property ("database", "testdb") config.set_property...
View ArticlePerformance improvements for Midgard1
In Midgard, we have some nice features, like dbus support, replication or quota. But not of them are mandatory by default. I ported some Midgard2 features, for better Midgard1 performance. Simply by...
View ArticleMidgard3 - first preview
Midgard2 entered LTS state, so Midgard developers focused on Midgard3 architecture design. Among others, main goals of Midgard3 are: extended traditional (ORM like) database storage routines,...
View ArticleMultiple values for property in Content Repository
As part of Midgard2 PHPCR implementation, I had to resolve quite important problem: store multiple values of one object property. I provided initial solution in PHP which depends on two simple...
View ArticleNew types in Midgard2
Midgard2, upcoming 10.05.5 release will introduce quite new and interesting features: abstract classes, interfaces and mixins. And thus multiple inheritance. Why do we need those types? It's simple,...
View ArticleGObject Introspection Content Repository
GICR is an effort to provide set of common API based on JCR one. It's written in vala, so it's fully introspectable by any language which supports GObject Introspection. The part of project's readme...
View Articlenode.js and GObject Introspection
It's already been mentioned there are GObject Introspection bindings for node.js. But the stability and functionality of bindings were poor. We at Nemein decided that it's worth to try make it more...
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Building a smarter workplace
As part of the SmarcoS project, we have been investigating how to make workplaces smarter through sensors and context awareness. Here is a video showing what we've built: The idea here is to...
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Working on an Android tablet
As mentioned in my post Hacker-nomad's toolkit, 2012 edition, the lease period of my lovely — Linux-driven — 11" MacBook Air expired this month, and I had to consider what kind of gear to go with...
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Why WordPress needs to get Decoupled
Couple of days ago there was an interesting post on the Dire State of WordPress, talking about the issues developers have when working with this hugely popular content management system: When you...
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Google Glass and the fear of the future
Google Glass is coming this year, a wearable display that can keep you connected at all the times and supply information and instructions when you need them. And it can record video or take pictures...
View ArticleThere are no smartphones
iPad is three years old now, and many tech blogs are writing stories to reflect what has changed. More than 100 million of them have been sold, alongside other popular tablets like the Kindle Fire and...
View ArticleWriting reusable, multi-platform JavaScript with Component
I'm currently in the process of porting the NoFlo Flow-Based Programming environment to run also in the browser. While there are some obvious differences in things like filesystem interaction and...
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Working on an Android tablet: first six weeks
I've been working full time on my Android workstation for over a month now, and it is time to write an update about it. How has it worked out? What I've been doing I would love to tell stories of...
View ArticleAutomated linking with rich text editors
The web is built of links, of pages linking to other resources on the internet. But making those links manually is tedious. This is another area where modern inline editors could do better. Yesterday...
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NoFlo: two years of flow-based programming
NoFlo — the flow-based programming system I started — is now two years old. I pushed the first commits to GitHub on June 5th 2011 from Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. To get us started with the story,...
View ArticleThe mobile-first Web
The growth of mobile web users is staggering. While some of us have been browsing the web on mobile devices for nearly ten years, most of the world population is only now getting there. The number of...
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