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Event-driven programming is a paradigm that is especially familiar for GUI and JavaScript programmers. For example, it is the style used in Node.js. In the traditional PHP space it hasn't been utilized that much, but here is an example how to do it with GObject signals as provided by Midgard2.
Connection events
First of all we prepare a Midgard connection:
// Open Midgard connection
$config = new midgard_config();
$config->read_file_at_path(ini_get('midgard.configuration_file'));

If we want to, we can also get a signal when the connection is open:
// Do...

Adobe ColdFusion Builder 2 Public Beta Now Available

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. And then there is Midgard Create, the new content management user interface that follows the ideas of decoupled content...

As I wrote in Better one file in the cloud than ten on the hard drive, when you mostly work on free software projects, then main frustration with a change of computer or a crashed harddrive is not lost files, but having to rebuild your development environment. The browser-based software development tool Cloud9IDE aims to solve that by moving the whole development environment to the "cloud".

With Cloud9IDE you get an excellent code editor thanks to the ACE project (formerly known as Mozilla Bespin), git integration...