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Responsive images

Torkil Johnsen — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:29:37 +0000

Responsive images should ideally serve the client images in sizes that fit the media, instead of serving 1000 pixel images to small handheld devices, which is both a waste of your time, bandwidth and data you may be paying for. There are no de facto standards for solving this part of the responsive web design [...]

Two major Nooku releases

Torkil Johnsen — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:03:09 +0000

During the past week, both Ninjaboard, the forum component, and Anahita, the Social Engine has released their first stable versions. These are the first stable, major components based on the Nooku Framework to be released. This if course, is not counting Nooku Content, the translations component which spawned Nooku Framework, and Ohanah, which is an [...]

Handling table relationships in Nooku

Torkil Johnsen — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:29:31 +0000

Christopher Garvis wrote a nice tutorial on how to modify your row classes to handle 1:N table relationships. We try to link to as many Nooku tutorials here as possible, but this one slipped under our radar until now. Read more at christophergarvis.com

Nooku Server announced

Torkil Johnsen — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:16:47 +0000

We are already familiar with Nooku Content, the site translation tool for Joomla. We have also become acquainted with Nooku Framework, a rapid application development framework for (so far) Joomla. We have published a series of Nooku tutorials available from this site that will show you more of the framework. Now, the Nooku gang has [...]

Table Behaviors in Nooku Framework tutorial

Torkil Johnsen — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:49:27 +0000

Torkil has written another Nooku Framework tutorial. This time he has written about Nooku’s database table behaviors, what they are, how they work, how you can create your own and how they compare to similar functionality in in Joomla 1.6. Read the tutorial at torkiljohnsen.com

Use a Nooku table class with a core Joomla table

Torkil Johnsen — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:16:48 +0000

Christopher Garvis wrote a nice and short tutoral some days ago where he demonstrates how you can adapt a table class to work with database tables that do not conform to the Nooku table naming standard. Read more at christophergarvis.com

Advancing from Joomla’s MVC to Nooku’s HMVC

Torkil Johnsen — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:58:40 +0000

Our own Torkil Johnsen wrote a tutorial showing how much easier MVC is in Nooku compared to Joomla, especially highlighting the amount of code you don’t have to write. He also demonstrates how Nooku introduces HMVC to the Joomla world. Read: Advancing from Joomla MVC to Nooku HMVC

Introduction to Nooku

Torkil Johnsen — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:46:03 +0000

Israel Canasa (@raeldc) has started writing some nice articles about his exploration of the Nooku Framework. He starts out without much knowledge and documents his progress, and it’s looking good so far. Part 0: Learning Nooku Part 1: Installing Nooku Part 2: Simplest Nooku component Part 3: Simplest DB access in Nooku

Nooku Chain-of-Command Tutorial

Torkil Johnsen — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:47:21 +0000

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos (@nikosdion) wrote a really nice tutorial on the Nooku Framework wiki on how to do server side validation of your data. To do this he is using a command that is placed into the command chain, and that handles validation before saving and overrides redirects when the validation fails. The command class [...]

Fix for mainmenu-xx in Joomla SEF urls

Torkil Johnsen — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:13:37 +0000

When converting a Joomla 1.0 site to 1.5 and activating SEF URLs, you may discover that the URLs suddenly have the menuname in them. For instance like this: http://example.com/about-us-mainmenu-12. This is because of changes to aliases in the migration process. A menu item titled “About us” might have had the alias “about-us” in Joomla 1.0, [...]

Installing Nooku Framework with the symlinker

Torkil Johnsen — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:00:43 +0000

In this tutorial I am going to show you how you can set up Nooku Framework from SVN on a local installation of Joomla, by using the symlinker tool. The symlinker is a handy tool, because it can just as easily be used in the same way when you are developing your own extensions. In [...]

OpenX: M2M authentication error fix

Torkil Johnsen — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:37:04 +0000

We just received this error on our OpenX server after a version upgrade: Dashboard Error: M2M authentication error – password invalid (code: 823). If this error repeats please describe your problem in detail and post it on the OpenX forum. With the encouragement to post the error on the forum, naturally alot of people do. [...]

Norwegian translation for JomSocial 1.5

eivind — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:10:17 +0000

We just finished the Norwegian language package for the Joomla community component, JomSocial, version 1.5. It comes with an install file for easy installation using the installation manager in backend. If (or should we just say “when”?) you find errors, bad grammar or typos, just post it in the comments below and we’ll update the [...]

Asynchronous Google Analytics

Torkil Johnsen — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:50:33 +0000

Already available since Dec. 1st 2009, Google Analytics now supports Asynchronous Tracking. AT will lessen the impact the tracking has on your website’s user experience, as well as increase the likelihood that the tracking beacon will be sent before the user leaves the page. If you only use Analytics through the tracking code right before [...]

Hide view or layout in the Joomla menu manager

Torkil Johnsen — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:34:05 +0000

If you are building your own component, and you have layouts or entire views you wish to hide from the backend menu manager, you can do so with very little effort and some bits of XML. Hide a view Within your component, for instance in the bar view in the foo component, you have a [...]

Nooku Framework: Links & Resources

Torkil Johnsen — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:27:38 +0000

This page contains lists of useful links and resources for Nooku Framework users and developers. We plan on building and expanding these lists regularly, and we welcome any tips you might have on links we are missing. Please send such links to @bedrereklame on Twitter.

Version control: Automatic SVN propsets

Torkil Johnsen — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:38:38 +0000

Propset in SVN, or property setting, is the process of adding versioned metadata to your files. In Joomla development it is common to set the magic svn:keyword property to php-files, to put useful and dynamic information about a file into the file itself. In particular you will very often see the Id keyword being used [...]

Nooku partnership announcement

Torkil Johnsen — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:02:56 +0000

BEDRE reklame has recently signed on as a Nooku partner. We have had our eyes on Nooku Content ever since it came out, but it was not until the release of the Nooku Framework that we got a chance to take a peek under the hood. We are more than thrilled to be able to [...]

There be blog!

Torkil Johnsen — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:01:04 +0000

After many years of carefully keeping all our darkest secrets to ourselves, we have come to a crossroads, and decided to do a sudden left turn. Once a Norwegian-only Joomla website, bedre.no was recently converted into a website run by Django. Today, with Django being all promiscuous obviously, it officially also sprouted an English bastard [...]