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Onward to 2012
The beginning of every new year gives pause for both retrospective and prospective thought. We celebrate the new year as we take a look back at the year that was and get a glimpse of the year that will be.
Looking back at the year that was
Creativity, Innovation and Inspiration – three words I will remember best from 2011. The platitude “hard work pays off” rang true this past year with the great work done in our little project. Nooku development literally moved ahead at warp-speed in 2011.
Growing the Nooku Platform
- Nooku Framework grew to an awesome RESTful framework for web development and especially for rapid development of powerful custom Joomla solutions.
- Nooku Server. We saw the birth of Nooku Server, a multi-site web application platform. Based on lightened core of Joomla 1.5 and optimised for performance and scalability.
- Nooku Components. Lot’s of innovation happened with the development of new re-usable components: com_files, com_activities, com_debug, com_groups, …
Impressions from Nooku Jam Leuven
The recent Nooku Jam Leuven can be easily summed up in 2 words – incredibly inspiring!
Twenty six attendees discussed, collaborated and shared ideas on the 26th and 27th of November at the FlandersDC Creativity Lab in Leuven, Belgium. The Jam, sponsored by Moyoweb, Beyounic and Timble, was an inspiring weekend for the Nooku community.
The recipe : great ideas, creative people, lots of food and Belgian beer and an inspiring venue! Check the photostream of David Deutsch for the evidence of the inspiring weekend.
Looking Back
One of the rules of the Nooku Jam is : “You blog about the Jam” and that’s exactly what some of the jammers did.
Behind the desk or in front of the best
This is a guest post from Jelle Munk, of Stoel de Munk, attendee of the Nooku Jam Leuven 2011.
I was a web developer who worked anonymously behind my desk using open source software but I did not like where I was going:
- I did not share;
- I did not collaborate;
- I did not contribute code.
Something had to change, I felt working with free and open source software was more than this.
Picture of Jelle from the ‘Making Nerds Look Good’ photostream by David Deutsch.
Hello Community
I heard about the Nooku Framework and watched the talks Johan has been giving about the framework. More importantly, what really got my attention was his philosophy about open source development.
I saw an upcoming event called the ‘Nooku Jam Leuven‘ and felt it was a good way to force myself to learn more about open source. Taking the next step, I signed up!
A Nooku November
It happened in September, and it is going to happen again next month – the Nooku flag is up in two continents in November! Nooku finds its way back to Asia and is going back to its roots in Belgium! Presenting the second Nooku Jam Manila and the first Nooku Jam Leuven.
Manila – Philippines
Following a very successful Nooku Jam Manila in 2010, Johan is back to give developers another whirlwind experience with the Nooku Framework. Israel and Myra, Timble’s Manila team, will also be around to help facilitate the event.
Nooku Jam Manila will be held on Friday, November 4, 2011 at the Exist TechBar in Ortigas, Metro Manila. If you are a passionate Joomla/PHP developer, join us for a day of technology, hacking and fun. And the hard work will pay off at the after party at the end of the day to start the celebrations for a great Nooku year.
The techbar can only hosts 20 developers. We expect to sell out quick so make sure to register early!
Leuven – Belgium
With the Nooku headquarters just a few miles away, the Nooku Jam almost comes home on the 26-27th of November in Leuven, Belgium. Our friends from FlandersDC will host the Jam in their uber awesome Creativity Lab which will be opened for us specially during the weekend.
Except not one day, but a full weekend of intense presentations, discussions, brainstorms, workshops, hackathons, … around specific areas of the Nooku project. And offcourse in good Nooku tradition there will be a Nooku Party!
This Jam is a great opportunity for Nookuers to meet in person, to put a face on a lot of quirky mailing list and IM nicknames, and to spend some quality time together!
The Nooku Jam is organised together with community partners (Timble, MoyoWeb, Pincoding, Beyounic, FlandersDC). We are still looking for companies to help sponsor the event. Interested? Get in touch.
If you are a Nooku, Joomla or PHP developer this is a Jam not to miss ! The Creativity Lab of FlandersDC can host a maximum of 50 people. Don’t wait to register!
September has been Nooku-fied
Two Nooku jams, two continents, one weekend! September was off to a great start start when Johan attended Joomladay Brazil, Tom attended Joomladay Hamburg and magic happened.
Nooku Jam Florianopolis
The Jam started at 6PM right after the closing video of the Joomladay Brazil. Johan rounded up a crew of 35 brave developers who were eager to stick around and all excited to dive into Nooku Framework. With most of the participants being new to Nooku, Johan focused the Jam on showing how easy it is to build a Joomla extension with Nooku Framework.
Johan started by demonstrating how you can create a fully working RESTful webservice with Nooku Framework with just one line of code. This set the tone for what was to follow. In the next 90 minutes, he built a fully working todo list component with tagging, logging, and versioning support.
Say hello to the “dynamic module injector”
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.
Nooku Development at Warpspeed
Not even 6 months ago we announced our plans for Nooku Server, a multi-site distribution of Joomla 1.5. We created a diet for Nooku Server and defined a roadmap. We initially planned to add multi-site support, caching improvements and a new administrator template which we did in alpha 1 and alpha 2, and then … community happened!
We couldn’t have expected so much enthusiasm from developers from all over the world who wanted to help out and contribute. Simply amazing!
Blossoming community
We announced our contributor agreement in November last year. In the past 6 months our contributor base has grown, from a handful to a total of 35. That’s a lot of developer power!
Nooku Community wins 4 J!OSCARS
Brian Teeman
On Saturday May 7th, the attendees of J and Beyond 2011 all gathered in the auditorium of Rolduc Conference Centre for the awards ceremony of the annual J.O.S.C.A.R.S – the Joomla Open Source Creative Artistic Recognition Awards.
This year we have had a record number of nominations and the international panel has had a very hard task in creating a shortlist. Voting took place during the conference by all the attendees with the winners announce in a star studded celebrity awards ceremony led Open Source Knights Sir Brian Teeman and Victor Drover.
Our Nooku community was awarded with not one but four awards in 3 different categories !
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The Dark Side of Nooku Framework
This is a guest post from Daniel Chapman, CEO and Founder of Ninjaforge, Nooku Contributor and community member.
Drinking the Nooku coolaid can be dangerous
After we released Ninjaboard, our first major Nooku Framework based extension, Johan asked me to say a few words about what we felt about working with Nooku Framework.
Aside from Ninjaboard, we have used the Nooku Framework on a few client sites for custom work. We are also currently porting all of our major extensions over the Nooku Framework. At Ninja Forge, we are hoping to be fully Nooku Framework powered in the near future.
There has already been a lot said about the good things that the Nooku Framework has to offer so I am going to do the opposite, I am going to talk about the downsides that we discovered when using the Nooku Framework. Read the rest of this entry »
How I became a Nooku contributor
Christian Hent aka Captain 'H'
After a longer break, I re-joined the Joomla community about a year ago and was first shocked, then a bit confused. Johan, lead developer of Joomla 1.5, had left Joomla and was now working on a new project called Nooku. After the initial shock and confusion, curiosity followed. I signed-up for the mailing list and before I knew it found myself inside of a community, full with friendly and helpful developers.
Eagerly I began to explore the possibilities of Nooku Framework and played with com_harbour, Nooku’s sample component. I love demos that just work and help me to understand how a framework is intended to be used and com_harbour is just that. It works.
Harbour is a simple component build on Nooku Framework which manages something like a harbour dictionary. It supports BREAD, searching, letter indexes, pagination, ordering, SEF, various possibilities to limit the displayed data by relations, a nice dashboard plus a lot of trifles. The whole component is deliberately kept simple.
After three months of learning and playing I had some ideas on how to improve it. So I took the bold leap and asked if I could help maintain it and add new features to it. To my surprise I got the job as lead maintainer and have been working on it since.
