Multi-lingual content manager for Joomla! - Nooku

The Nooku Team will be at the Joomladay Italy on November 21st in Rome to talk about DOCman 1.5 and it's future. But we have much more to talk about: Together with Beyounic, we are organizing a Nooku Demo Day in Rome on November 20th. The event will be mainly focussed on the Nooku Framework.

This is your chance to learn all about this exciting new framework from Nooku Lead Architects Johan Janssens and Mathias Verraes. The primary language will be English but the Beyounic Team will facilitate the communication, providing unplugged translation to and from Italian.

The event takes place from 13:30 until 18:00 and the registration fee is 15 euro to cover our costs. We have only 50 seats available, so register fast!

Read more: Joomladay Italy & Nooku Demo Day

The first Nooku Demo Day last March was a fun gettogether. We got one complaint however: apparently all Joomla events in The Netherlands are in the South of the country. Jamii, one of our Nooku Partners, decided it was time for a change. They're inviting colleagues, customers, and friends (and anybody who's interested) for a second Dutch Nooku Demo Day on the 16th of October, all the way up north in Slagharen.

We love it when our partners organize events, so of course we happily accepted the invitation to come and show the latest and greatest developments in Nooku Content (the multilingual extension for Joomla), and Nooku Framework (the rapid application development platform for Joomla).

Read more: Nooku goes North

It really doesn't seem that long since the now infamous Core Team split from Mambo resulted in the release of Joomla 1.0 on the 16th September 2005.

For us it is it will always be something close to our hearts. Our own Johan Janssens, Peter Russell and Shayne Bartlett were all members of that Mambo Core Team and as such share with sixteen others the unique privilege of being co-founders of Joomla!

Read more: Happy 4th Birthday Joomla!

Since we released the Sourceforge Subversion repository for Nooku Framework, we've been getting some great feedback, not in the least from early adopters -- developers who are already using the framework to build better Joomla extensions.

One of them, Danny Buytaert from Freakout.be, published a comparison between the Joomla Framework and Nooku Framework. If you've build Joomla extensions before, you'll know how much repetitive work is involved. As you can see, Nooku reduces that to almost nothing. Danny's Hello World extension has only a fragment of the line count of the original, Joomla-only version.

Read more: Joomla vs Nooku Programming Economics

The Nooku team is delighted to announce that the Nooku Framework has been publicly released — made available at Sourceforge.net

The framework - which was announced last May -  empowers Joomla! 1.5 to new levels and is designed to provide third-party developers with Joomla's missing MVC.

Lead architect, Johan Janssens, said the framework will provide developers with "future-proof" tools to "enable exciting and efficient ways to make Joomla better through extendable developement."

Read more: Nooku Framework goes Sourceforge

Last month Brian Teeman (Joomla co-founder) ran an unofficial Joomla Developers Showdown. The premise was to create a fully functional and documented extension in four days. The extension had to meet some basic requirements based around a concept of a company directory.

Read more: Nooku Framework extension wins Joomla Developers' Showdown

The Nooku team was at the Joomladays in the Netherlands last week, both as sponsors and as speakers. The Dutch Joomladays are traditionally one of the biggest Joomla events globally, and this year was no different. Organised by Guido Jansen, the driving force of Dutch community site, the event hosted some 300 attendees and over 20 speakers, spread over two days.

Read more: Nooku Framework launch at Joomladays Netherlands

In the second episode of Nooku TV Pete Russell talks to web architect Rastin Mehr, of rmdstudio.com,  about Anahita, a new social engine framework for Joomla. At its core Anahita is powered by our own Nooku Framework.

Rastin's experience with Nooku Framework took Anahita to unexpected levels :

• rmd Studio discovers Nooku Framework
• Subsequently entirely re-wrote Anahita (using Nooku) in six weeks
• Far more fun!
• Could not have built Anahita without Nooku Framework
• Plugs into Joomla!
• "Alien-life form inside Joomla! makes Joomla better and smarter and live longer..."
• Nooku Framework is "the MVC core that Joomla always wanted"
  

More information about Anahita Social Engine can be found on Anahitapolis.com

Read more: Nooku TV - Anahita Social Engine for Joomla!