September just went from great to awesome! In the weekend of 2-4 September we are branching out over two continents to bring you the world famous Nooku Magic.

Florianopolis – Brazil

The Nooku Jam has found itself in the shores of the Island of Magic. Announcing Nooku Jam Florianopolis, Brazil, which will take place on Saturday, 3rd of September 2011 from 18h till 22h.

The Brazilian Jam is organised together with our Joomleiros friends and will coincide with Joomladay Brazil 2011. The Brazilian Joomla community will be treated to a Nooku Jam like no other by our own Johan Janssens.

Nooku Jam Florianopolis caps off Joomladay Brazil 2011 and commences the first ever Joomla Beach!

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The Joomla Media Manager is currently a hermetically sealed black box which has been around since the Mambo days. It neither allows extending it, nor can it be easily re-used by developers. Over the past few weeks we have been giving it some much needed love and re-build it from the ground up. Meet : com_files !

For the diehards, in Joomla this component is called com_media. We gave it a new name to better reflect its use and to allow you to also install it in Joomla site. In good Nooku tradition com_files is fully re-usable and extend-able.

If you check out our Nooku Server demo you will notice that the user interface looks very similar to that of Joomla. Don’t let yourself be fooled by the looks. Under the hood this baby has a completely new and shiny engine.

In this blog I’ll walk you over the key points of the refactor and at the end I’ll show you how you can easily integrate this component in your own solutions.

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This is a guest post from Nick Balestra, CEO and Co-Founder of Beyounic, home of the Ohanah events manager for Joomla.

It has been said many times before, Nooku is not a one-way street. The Nooku community thrives on collaboration. At Beyounic we believe in this and decided to organise a hackathon at our own Beyounic HQ in Locarno Switzerland. We brought our team together and flew Johan in to hack for two full days on Nooku Framework. One of the little gems that came out of this is the ‘dynamic module injector’.

In Joomla, modules are attached to a menu item based on its ID. If you want to associate a specific module with a specific page you need to create a menu item for that page, then link the module to it. While this may work in many cases, it’s not always ideal.

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