»» READ original announcement here

As an alpha version, it naturally has bugs, does not yet have some features such as privacy and Access Control List. In addition, user blocking is not yet fully functional. These and more are being addressed in the next alpha release, currently under development.

»» DOWNLOAD the installable packages here

Catch the buzz

This news comes with much anticipation as the buzz of Anahita Social Engine™ picks up momentum:

Last month Mr. Bob Bloom did an interview with Rastin and Ash on his radio podcast show, featuring the Anahita Social Engine™ project and Nooku.

»» LISTEN to the podcast here

Earlier, the Nooku and Beyounic Teams presented the Anahita Project at the Joomla Day Italia Rome in their Nooku presentation.

»» READ original blog post here

Follow Anahita Social Engine™

If you want to hear all the latest news regarding Anahita Social Engine™ first hand, these are the ways you can stay in the know:

• Anahita Social Engine™ on Twitter @anahitapolis
• Anahita Social Engine™ Fan Club
• Anahita Social Engine™ Blog

Congratulations to Rastin and Ash, and the Anahita Social Engine™ Partners on this wonderful milestone!

Want to become a partner? Read Become a Partner on the Anahitapolis website.

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Terri Howie’s services include Specialty Auto Sales and Auto Financing for credit challenged customers.

Terri came to me late last fall, knowing exactly what she wanted, expediting the process of getting her website up and running. Joomla CMS was a perfect match for her!

Terri shared with me in detail her website needs, its purpose, target market and functionality. JenTekk happily assisted her in securing the .com and .ca domain name, as well as a reputable hosting company.

To work within her budget, I recommended that Terri preview some Commercial Joomla Templates, which reflected the style, design and layout that she needed.

Terri chose Zeox a boldly colored, yet simply designed Joomla Template. As you can see, we were able to keep the majority of the original template design, which enabled Terri to place the majority of her resources into the content development.

In addition to Joomla CMS, we needed to add a customized application form. After researching a couple of extensions, I settled on ChronoForms – a simple yet powerful Joomla form extension – luv it!

The finishing touches were added to the website only hours ago – so this site is truly “hot-off-the-press”!

Congratulations Terri! It was a blast working with you on your site. I hope that your new venture will prosper as you help people “get on the road again”!

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I met Sarah, A smart, sweet and ambitious young lady, at Bikrams Hot Yoga.

Before and after classes we discussed her goals of one day starting up a company and selling her own line of 100% natural skin care products.

As a friend and business owner myself, I was excited to help Sarah make her dream a reality.

Side by side we took the journey together… discussing what it took to start-up a business, registering her business name, her .com and .ca domain names, securing a reputable host and finally strategizing the development of her website, including the use of Joomla CMS, her site’s look & feel, and possible eCommerce solutions.

Once all the preliminary discovery work was complete, I began designing an original Joomla 1.5 CMS template according the website design styles we had looked over together… simple and clean.

During this time, Sarah developed her brand, researched manufacturers, created her skin care line, hired a photographer for product photos, learned Joomla CMS, and moved to the East Coast! Now that is ambitious!

We discussed several eCommerce solutions. After much research and upon recommendation by a local business owner, Sarah identified VirtueMart coupled with PayPal as the eCommerce solution most suitable for her immediate website needs… we learned VirtueMart together!

So here we are today, not even a year later, LIDO Skin Care site launched and ready to do business.

You can already find LIDO Skin Care on Facebook!

Congratulations Sarah on your new Company LIDO Skin Care, on the creation of your fabulous products, and the launch of your Joomla CMS & VirtueMart eCommerce website!

It was an honor and a pleasure to work with you on this. I wish you the best with your product line and much success in the future!

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When I heard that they were interested in using Joomla 1.5 CMS – naturally I said yes!

Before – preliminary mock-up

Attached was a preliminary design…

It would be my job to create the Joomla template based on this design and the functionality required, as well as install and configure the site, set up the modules, menus, add a sitemap extension and develop the information architecture so that all they had to do was go into the back-end and add content.

This is really fun for me… the directions, expectations and requirements had been defined so clearly, that only just over 2 weeks later the site was set-up and it’s design up for preview.

After a few small minor changes we officially declared the site’s design complete on September 25th!

After – final site design

Here is the final design…

My work comes in all kinds of shapes and sizes – this was such a fun little project for me.

Thanks to all the wonderful people at BCAHC and e-HLbc for bringing me in on this project – all the best!

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With so much buzz around town about Anahita, its no wonder the whole city is suspended in anticipation of her arrival.

Photographers are checking the batteries of their cameras, businesses shutting down early, fans already lining the carpet to get a glimpse of this new up-and-coming star… the one who has already begun to capture the hearts of the Joomla and Open Source Communities.

So Ladies and Gentlemen, without any further adieu, I introduce to you Anahita…

Her Creators

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 around the clock in collaboration with Johan Janssens and Mathias Verraes (participating as Nooku MVC Framework consultants) from Joomlatools, to develop the ideal Open Source Social Web platform: Anahita Social Engine ™.

What is Anahita Social Engine ™?

Anahita Social Engine ™ is a light and scalable open source solution for building Social Networks, Intranets, and so many other types of social web experiences! Anahita is developed as Joomla 1.5 extensions, using the Nooku Framework.

Feature List

• Rich and Elegant User Profiles
• Flexible Social Graphing
• Intelligent Activity Updates
• Organic Privacy Manager
• Public Messaging
• Notifications and Requests
• Customizable look and feel
• Anahita Social™ Photos
• so much more »

F.A.Q.

One of the most frequently asked questions Rastin and Ash (creators) receive is if Anahita is yet another facebook cloner, to which they respond:

“Heaven no! facebook is one of the many types of social web species out there. Anahita Social Engine ™ is for developing social web projects of ALL kinds. If a facebook clone is what you want, you can have that too!”

View Anahita screen captures and see for yourself!

Anahita PowerPoint Presentation

Anahita Social ™ Partner’s Program

Are you a developer or do you operate a development company?

Would you like to have an early start in becoming familiar with the Anahita framework and API so that you can start developing your social web projects right away?

If so, I have great news for you!

Rastin and Ash have developed a partnership program which will enable you to experiment with the code, ask questions, and influence the future of project by providing feedback and suggestions for new features.

Benefits include Partner’s Privileges, Training, Support and Marketing, read more »

This is also an excellent opportunity for you to fund one of the most promising open source social engine projects existing today to all of us, which is brought to you by people who have years of experience in developing web applications and roots in the Open Source world and communities.

More Information

For more information on Anahita Social Engine ™, and the Anahita Social ™ Partner’s Program, visit Anahita ‘s official website at www.anahitapolis.com

I wish you a long, successful and beautiful career Anahita!

All the best to my friends and business associates Rastin and Ash as they take this amazing project to the Open Source community.

You’ve certainly offered us an invaluable resource, and more power to the people!

Thank you!

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Along with assisting Vancouver Community College Library with a new look for the home page content, and developing Sustainable Cities’ home page and Youth-Led pages, here are 3 projects I am currently working on.

Kids Summer Reading Club 2009

We have had the privilege and pleasure of developing the Kids Summer Reading Club’s website for 4 years in a row. The annual Reading Club is sponsored by the BC Library’s Association, along with BC’s local Libraries and the Royal Bank of Canada.

Fairlawn Labradors – using WordPress CMS

This will be Fairlawns second website to be developed by JenTekk. We are in the process of updating the design, as well as developing the new site with WordPress, an open source content management system.

Donna is thrilled with the freedom a CMS brings, giving her the ability to update her Litter Due Dates along with other information – all on her own.

Conscious Living Designs – using Joomla CMS

Katherine Willems, the owner of Conscious Living Designs has a passion for Environmental Design and a fascination for Feng Shui.

Her company, Conscious Living Designs, provides eco-friendly solutions that incorporate ancient Feng Shui Principles and Sustainable Design Strategies. It was very important that the design reflected this.

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So there you have it, in a nutshell!

It will be interesting to see how far or close to these mock-ups the final designs will be. Stay tuned!

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It is a lightweight, flexible and easy-to-use document manager that lets Joomla users to easily upload, manage and embed documents within their articles.

»» DOWNLOAD RUBBERDOC

RubberDoc summary

• Effortless document management. It’s very easy to create documents. Simply click on the new button and fill out the document details and then attach the document file and save.
• Categorize documents by assigning them to different Joomla categories.
• Protect the documents by assigning different access levels such as public, registered and special.
• Embed documents anywhere within the articles using the special tags {docs} doc-name-1,doc-name-2 {/docs} or embed all the documents belonging to one category by typing {docs category=”category-alias”}
• Create many documents at once by using the multiple file upload features.
• info on the latest release: RubberDoc v.0.9.5

RubberDoc

• Learn more about RubberDoc
• View RubberDoc screen shots
• Download RubberDoc
• Questions or feedback: please post at rmdStudio’s blog or PeerGlobe Technology
• Read previous support page

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