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Nooku Framework’s 3rd Birthday!
Just over three years ago, on 12 February 2008, we made the first commit to our beloved Nooku Framework. Today, Nooku Framework drastically speeds up the creation and maintenance of Joomla extensions while eliminating repetitive coding and adding power, flexibility and fun. Finally, you can focus on what matters most: your extension’s business logic and user experience.
Definition: “to nookify” (verb) : Collaborating to make code reusable, flexible and magical. Often leads to reduction of 60-80% in code.
Introducing Nooku Platform
On the 4th of February 2011, we attended the first ever Joomlanight in Stockholm, Sweden. The topic of this event was “Joomla: At The Edge Of Innovation” and hosted three talks:
- “The Road Ahead for Joomla!” by Ryan Ozimek
- “Molajo Joomla! 1.6 Distribution” by Marco Barbosa
- “Nooku – Evolving and Innovating Joomla!” by our own Johan Janssens
Johan introduced the Nooku Platform, vision, strategy and roadmap:
- Nooku Framework, rapid extension development framework
- Nooku Server, multi-site and multi-lingual distribution of Joomla
- Nooku Community, innovative and open source community
The event was broadcasted live on the inter-tubes, thanks to Martin Blodau. If you missed it, sit back and enjoy Johan’s talk. We also made the presentation available here.
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Nooku’s Second Birthday
This week, it’s exactly two years since we launched the Nooku.org website. We have been working behind the scenes for a long time, so it feels great to finally be able to show the world what we were doing. So it is with great pride that on Nooku’s second birthday, we’re announcing our brand new site.
Innovation through extensions
Let’s face it: there has been a lot of uncertainty in the Joomlasphere. Joomla 1.6 is the center of attention, but progresses slowly. Because of that, some people are considering to move away from Joomla.
We believe the naysayers are looking in the wrong direction. The Joomla core is just a piece of the puzzle. The community is driving innovation through amazing extensions. The Nooku platform is a game-changing technology that creates new momentum. Joomla Co-founder Peter Russell calls it
“The Nooku train: If you’re not on it, you’ll miss the destination!”
New website and resources
If you have been following closely, you may have noticed that Nooku HQ was buzzing with activity: earlier this month, we launched the new Nooku Developer Portal, invited you to the community maintained wiki, and opened the Nooku Framework mailing list to the public. The new Nooku.org main site has a better structure to help you find your way through our resources, and makes a clear distinction between Nooku Content (the multi-lingual extension) and Nooku Framework, the new brain for Joomla.
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Happy 4th Birthday Joomla!
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!
Happy First Birthday, Nooku!
How time flies … Nooku is one year old today! It has been an great year for Nooku with great and encouraging feedback. Our partner base grew to more then 20 partners in the past year. Their enthusiasm and commitment shows that a funded GPL model can be a great way to build highly advanced Joomla extensions.
Our agile development methodology has allowed us to release early and often. In the past 12 months we released 2 feature releases and a total of 10 maintenance releases. We counted more than 1500 code commits, closed over 100 tickets and saw a codebase increase of more then 40%. Nooku Content is slowly evolving into a real content manager, and is not just for publishing multi-lingual websites anymore. Mono-lingual websites can benefit from the workflow and search engine optimization features Nooku offers as well.
Party Time — Website Launch
Today is a special day for the Joomlatools team. Today we’re launching our most ambitious project so far, Nooku.org. As with the birth of any infant, there’s been a lot of nurturing and hours of contemplation. Our first product is Nooku Content, the best multi-lingual application the Joomlasphere has yet seen. Its features include an overwhelmingly powerful, yet simple administration system which fits seamlessly into your Joomla! 1.5 site. Moreover, Nooku Content brings Joomla! 1.5 into the enterprise realm — and Nooku Content is just our opening shot.
