Getting started with the Midgard content repository

I’m doing a talk today in the Bossa Conference about using Midgard as a content repository for mobile applications. As part of my presentation I wrote some simple example code for using the Midgard APIs in Python , and thought they would be good to share to those not attending the event as well. The idea of a content repository is that instead of coming up with new, isolated file formats or database setups for your application you can just work with objects and signals, and let Midgard handle the rest.

What our Trainees Learn

After our successful year of training at Openismus, I thought I’d publish the rough bullet-point list that we used. Whoever we choose for the following year will repeat much the same process, with in-depth critique and a dose of reality. These were our overall aims: Familiarity with the programming languages, toolkits, and tools, beyond the average

Joikuspot for Nokia N900 Now Out of Beta. Coming to Ovi Store Soon

Joikuspot Premium for the Nokia N900 came out of beta on Monday and is now available for sale at the Joikushop for EUR 7.

Nokia to launch Linux-powered N900 tomorrow (Linux Today)

APC magazine: “The N900 will be Nokia’s first and last Maemo 5 smartphone, with the next version due to run the new MeeGo Linux mobile OS created as a joint venture between Nokia and Intel.”

Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Monday Night (Gizmodo Australia)

HP ProBooks Get Prettier Inside And Out Mmm. Pretty

Nokia N900 Review: Typing and Text Input on Maemo 5

Here’s a short video on how Text input works on Maemo 5, along with the Keyboard on the Nokia N900. From the post on : zomgitscj.com

MADDE tech preview continues: Integration into QtCreator

Some time ago, we published a tech preview of MADDE as a new cross-compilation tool, which runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.

Maemo internals for everyone – software packages

As most of you may already know, N900 operating system is actually Linux. Maemo is based on Debian, to be exact, distribution well known in IT industry.

Face Detection And Tracking On The Nokia N900

Face detection/tracking demo that uses the front camera on the Nokia N900.

Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 22 Feb 2010

Front Page Maemo and Moblin "merge" to form MeeGo On Monday, just after the release of our third issue, Nokia and Intel held a joint press conference to announce that the roadmaps of Moblin and Maemo were converging. The resulting operating system, MeeGo, would target phones, tablets and netbooks and be held under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation as a fully open source OS: We are taking the best pieces from these two open source projects and are creating the MeeGo software platform

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