Posts tagged with development
Nooku Community rocking on
Just a little while ago we passed the 2500 commits mark in our Nooku Framework SVN. With all the work being done this little milestone almost slipped under the radar. Time for a little celebration!
Some facts. When we made the Nooku Framework codebase available on Sourceforge a little over a year ago the commit counter was at 1218. Today with all spaces combined we are nearing 3250 commits, that’s 2000 commits in one year. Amazing !
Nooku is slowly earning it’s spot with the big boys as you can see from the graph (taken from Ohloh) below. Not bad huh !
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Nooku Framework a CCK for developers
A year ago Steve Burge from Alledia wrote a blog post titled : Joomla Goes CCKrazy taking a closer look at the CCK explosion in the Joomla ecosystem. In his post Steve defines a CCK as :
- any extension which allows to move beyond the text and title options provided by Joomla’s com_content, and choose your own fields and options.
- any extension which also moved beyond the section/category hierarchy of Joomla 1.5 and 1.5.
Today the Joomla extensions site counts not less then 10 GPL licensed CCK solutions. All of which add advanced content management capabilities to Joomla. In a sense, each of the CCK solutions are mini CMS systems wrapped inside a Joomla extension.
Are CCK’s the answer to innovating Joomla ? I don’t believe so. One of the reasons I choose Mambo for my first web project back in the days was because it was easy to use and easy to extend. As a user I could set it up in 5 min, just running through the installer, and as a developer I could extend it in 5 min, just looking at the code.
Joomla vs Nooku Programming Economics
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.
Nooku Framework goes Sourceforge
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.”
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Nooku Content ready for production use
More and more of our partners are using Nooku Content on production sites. This is possible thanks to our agile development approach: every couple of weeks we release a new version of Nooku Content. These releases are not feature complete, but what is in there is working, and can be deployed on a live site.
In the ‘classic’ development model, you sometimes work for more then a year on an application that, when done, turns out not to fit the needs of the user entirely. One of the benefits of the agile methodology is that you get real world feed back right away. That feedback can immediately be used to steer development and decide on the feature set for the next release.
