Some history

I have met Johan the first time on the Joomla day in Germany in summer 2009. At that time it was absolutely unclear to me what Nooku is and how it fits into the Joomla environment. Too many different people were talking about it and some were absolutely not talking about it. Reading the forum on joomla.org and following the bug squad mailing list showed that there was a huge disagreement on how to proceed with Joomla. I did not see much progress and JPodium was not much more than a rough idea at that time. Something complicated like Nooku was way beyond what I thought I could handle. I anyway got access to the Google group and started to read the discussions there.

No, it was not easy for me to follow. And I made at least three unsuccesful attempts to get it all up and running on my system. Then I gave up. Or I did not have time because my job did not leave any room for further development on JPodium and for tests with Nooku.

J and Beyond early 2010 was another remarkable push for Nooku and I learned a lot about the acting people in the Joomla project. More and more I came to the conclusion that the real progress is made outside of the Joomla core project.

After a few months of not too much time spent with both Joomla and Nooku I decided to give Nooku another try. I checked my local htdocs directory and found a Joomla test installation called JNooku, created back in the summer of 2010. I found leftovers of an early com_harbour version and some incomplete Nooku installations. Some simple checks quickly led to the insight that nothing was working.

The present

A brief summary: Nooku is installed succesfully on my normal Windows PC without symlinker and com_harbour is running. The framework is linked to a local working copy of the Nooku repository at Assembla and it seems to work. I get some error messages on the admin views and two warnings on the frontend. But for today I'm quite happy.