On Wednesday, 19 January 2011,  Joomla integrators and PHP developers gathered at the University of Lugano, CH for the first Swiss Nooku Jam. The Jam took place during the annual Beyounic Camp, a strategic workshop hosted by our friends from Beyounic.

Beyounic is the team behind Ohanah, a social event management platform built on Nooku Framework. They have become great friends in the past year and we (Tom and myself) were very excited to travel to Lugano to see their new office and organize a Nooku Jam together.

Geeks, students and teachers

Despite the exam period, we got a room full of interested informatics students, teachers and many other great people coming also from abroad. (@andreatorre came over all the way from Rome, Italy @luscarpa joined us from Venice, Italy)

With so many really talented people in the room, we were able to touch some very technical topics. Design patterns, use of web 3.0/semantic technologies, security, etc. Feedback during and after the event was great.  The Jam was well appreciated by the faculty program manager and the participants.

First Nooku Developer Group

The afternoon after the event, a group of students got really interested in learning more about the Nooku Framework. For us this means the first seed for a swiss Nooku developer group has been successfully planted!
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Together with our friends from Beyounic we are organising the first Nooku Jam of 2011 in beautiful city of Lugano, Switzerland on the 19th of January 2011. The University of Lugano has kindly offered to host the jam on their campus.

Nooku Framework is considered by many as one of the most interesting developments in the Joomlasphere of the last two years. Not only because of the spectacular code reduction (up to 80%), but also for the many features that were previously unavailable to Joomla and PHP developers:

• Near-zero-code HMVC
• REST architecture
• Object Relational Mapping
• Out of the box security features
• Extensibility through CoC, DI, Mixins …
• Extreme re-usability

If you are a Joomla or PHP developer looking to learn how to build better Joomla extensions faster you don’t want to miss this. Thanks to our sponsors the event is completely free. Don’t wait and register now!

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