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.

Midgard does this all by building on top of technologies like GLib, libgda and D-Bus. It provides developers with object-oriented programming interfaces for C, PHP and Python.

Web service developers also benefit from MidCOM, a modern MVC framework for PHP development that utilizes all the advantages of the Midgard storage framework. MidCOM helps web production also by shipping a set of content management tools.

With Midgard, you can have your data everywhere, from mobile devices the web server. It enables peer-to-peer sharing of information, and makes it possible to have all the materials you need also when offline.

A very intersting CMS Framework project supporting PHP5 and jQuery with a great documentation. Binary packages of Midgard are available for Debian, Fedora, Redhat, Suse and Ubuntu. Midgard is released under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL).

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After The Deadline is a new commercial web-based solution which aims to provide a intelligent contextual check spelling, advanced style checking and grammar checking for wordpress, PHPList and TinyMCE. The solution is pretty interesting for companies looking for advanced spell checking solution ready to use. Service plans start from $10/month and $0.05/Request for 2-4 writers until $200/month and $0.004/Request for systems having up to 500 writers. A Free service plan is available allow one writer and only 80 Request/month.

If you are looking for a high accuracy spelling solution, that improves writing style, finds grammar errors, you might check their free service plan and give it a try.

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On March 24th, the new portal of Government of Paraná went live. This new communication tool was presented at the weekly meeting of the School of Government by the President of the Company Informática do Paraná (Celepar), Mr. Vanderlei Iensen. Among the main features of the new website is the color-based visual model to differentiate between the content for its relevance and ease of maintenance, and statewide access to government services.

The portal is divided into five major areas, which are the points of entry for other information:

* list of services available to citizens,
* services and information for the business environment,
* information about Paraná,
* government information, and
* news,

All divided by tabs and color specific.

According to Mr. Iensen, the focus of the portal is to provide information to Parana's citizen, with the ranking of information in order to organize the content and ensure the integrity and robustness of published data. The goal is to maintain the distribution of content based on the national standard for electronic government (e-gov).

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The XOOPS Project is experiencing something that probably none of the Open Source CMS projects have ever experienced: reunification with its forks.

It's typical in the Open Source environment that developers work on a project, but then have different ideas, and leave to create a fork. Most of the time they never come back.

So it's a sign of a visionary leadership of the current XOOPS team that they have reached out and were able to attract back three of its recent and most innovative forks:

• Simple-XOOPS under leadership of Dirk Herrmann from Germany (www.simple-xoops.de),
• EXM System under leadership of Eduardo Cortes from Mexico (www.exmsystem.org), and
• Zarilia under leadership of John Neill from UK.

It is also a clear vote of confidence from the forks' developers for the current leadership team of XOOPS and their direction.

All of these forks are very innovative and will bring wealth of features back to XOOPS that will benefit XOOPS users for years to come, and will enhance the upcoming XOOPS 3.0 release. It also show XOOPS' increased effort to bring together and unite XOOPS developers from around the world.

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World’s leading Open Source CMS solution gets even better

After over 25,000 downloads of its previous version in just three short months, the XOOPS Project, world’s leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System), is aggressively building on this success and has released a new version of its award winning software - XOOPS 2.3.3.

This release focused on bug fixes and usability improvements. Some of the major changes are:

• improved profile and pm modules
• improved installer
• improved theme
• improved tinymce editor

The improved installer is the highlight of this release, providing an easy way to install not only the program, but also important modules. The key for this new release was an active collaboration of XOOPS developers from around the world: China, France, UK, USA, Germany, Peru, Libya, Belgium, Netherlands, and several others. The worldwide XOOPS community is one of its strength, resulting in a quick translation of new releases into over 20 languages.

XOOPS has not only a very loyal base, as the number of downloads suggests, but is also highly respected in the industry. In 2008 it was a finalist in SourceForge Community Awards and in the CMS Awards by Packt Publishing. It also won the prestigious 2008 China Open Source Software Contest Award.

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While much of the US economy is leaning on the "pause button," the technology sector's Content Management arena - particularly in the open source realm - continues in "fast-forward" mode. Open Source solutions are experiencing unprecedented growth, as corporations and non-profits tighten their belts and turn to quality solutions previously unavailable.

Content management solutions such as Joomla, Drupal, Magnolia and LifeRay are experiencing rapid growth, as they ramp up to meet the business community's desire for easy-to-use website development software that empowers teams to collaboratively create and update content. They can do it from the office, home, or even on the road - so long as they have access to the internet.

To meet the groundswell demand for information, training and a sense of community in the open source CMS realm, the US-based CMS Association announced its second international Exposition, to be held in Denver, Colorado. Dubbed the "Winter 2008 CMSA Expo," the event will take place on Thursday, December 4th and Friday, December 5th.

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