We would like to thank the Nooku and Beyounic teams for presenting the Anahita project at the Joomla Day Italia Rome and Nooku presentation. I must say nothing is more encouraging and energizing to us after long sleepless days of coding when a pack of truly awesome friends and brilliant minds spread the word for us with lots of enthusiasm half way across the planet. Ash and I feel truly blessed, appreciated and fortunate to meet and work with the Nooku (twitter: @nooku) and Beyounic (twitter: @beyounic) teams. Thank you for being so awesome
Anahita Social Engine™ is an open source and architecturally organic platform and framework for developing all kinds of custom social networking solutions. This technology is being developed by rmdStudio Inc. and Peerglobe Technology Inc. using the Nooku Framework agile and RAD technology. Nooku and Beyounic teams are both in the global tribe of Anahita partners and have been great supporters of this project.
We have good news for the MVC crazed web application developers and especially those who use Joomla! not only as a great CMS but also a superb framework for Internet software development.
The long awaited Nooku Framework developed by the father and co-founder of Joomla! CMS Johan Janssens and his uber talented team-mate Mathias Verraes is now available to public on the sourceforge under the GPL license.
This article has already been posted on the Anahitapolis blog, however for many who are still unaware of that website, here is the link. This event was organized by our wonderful friends Boris Mann, Sonia Ryan, and Roland Tanglao from the Bootup Entrepreneurial Society who gave us the spotlight for 30 minutes on July 7th 2009 at the WorkSpace in a room with at least 60-80 people from the vancouver technology community. Thank you so much for this opportunity guys!
Here is the video and since the slide show is not quite clear in it we have also embeded the presentation as a slideshare in this blog post for you. Thank you Roland for the great video that you’ve made. The the other project that presented after us was BuddyPress from Automattic. These are the same great folks who have devleoped the Wordpress blogging software.
After few months of development in Nooku Framework I would like to write a little review, so you’ll know about this amazing framework developed by the talented folks at the Joomlatools that gave wings to our project. Nooku Framework+Joomla gave us the MVC and Content Mangement Framework (CMF) that we’ve always wanted to develop the Anahita Social ™ Engine project.
Drupal and Wordpress severely lack a solid software development framework. Many PHP MVC frameworks such as CakePHP or Symfony lacked any sort of the higher level functionalities such as CMS, Template Engine, Extensions Management, Menu Management, basic user management, authentication, Etc.
Joomla 1.5 closed the gap by providing both the MVC framework for software development and all the higher level set of functionalities that I mentioned the last paragraph. Nooku Framework took the framework … [More] to an entirely new level that Joomla could not possibly provide on it’s own. Few months ago we have rebuilt our project (Anahita Social ™ Engine) using Nooku Framework within 6 weeks, and ever since software development has been a much more inspiring and agile process.
You might have heard rumours around the web about this project, but the cat is out of the bag and the project is real. For the past 18 months rmd Studio (Rastin Mehr – Lead Web Application Architect) and Peerglobe technology (Ash Sanieyan – Lead Web Application Architect) have been working round the clock in collaboration with Johan Janssens and Mathias Verraes, as Nooku MVC Framework consultants from Joomlatools, to develop the ideal Open Source Social Web platform.
Is this yet another facebook cloner? Not really! In fact unlike many microwave-quick-oatmeal social networking builder options available out there, our focus has been to develop a generic, modular and flexible platform for developing Social Web * (as ANYTHING) and that will include not only Social Networking websites, but also Social Intranets, eLearning, Community Markets, Services and electronic goods Support & Distribution websites, or any unheard of social web business and work flow models that we could ever come up with in the future. As you can see Social Networking as we know it today, is only one of the many possibilities.
We also think that for a project to success it does not matter that how great it is at a certain point of time, but how well it is able to evolve and change over time. A design that adapts itself to different life case scenarios and market trend changes will have a much higher chance of survival and success. That means staying modular, generic, and not trying to be everything to everybody!
So we have built that framework
The good news is that Anahita project is now finally ready for deploying client projects. The public GPL release is yet few months away and there is a good reason behind it:
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