We would like to announce the release of Anahita 0.9.3 (Code Catmint) to our partners and the immediate start of the version 0.9.4 development following the Anahita roadmap
The focus of version 0.9.3 has been to improve the Anahita templating, revise a standard CSS tag structure, and refactor all the Views so the core team and partners could start developing and configuring their project sites. We have also put in just about good enough basic tools for those who wish start developing social apps by using the Anahita Social ™ Discussions and Photos as the first blue prints for developing social apps.
Developing templates for Anahita is now not much different than developing templates for Joomla, the only issue that we are still dealing with is that Anahita is using the Mootools 1.2.3 and Joomla 1.5 is still using Mootools 1.1 so if there are modules that are developed for the old version of Mootools they may not work in the Anahita environment.
All the template outputs, social engine and social apps CSS code are over-writable at the template level. We are also looking into ways so even the Javascript libraries will become re-writable so those who wish to write their own custom javascript code for a particular social web project be able to do so.
We will be writing a blog post about template customization for Anahita, and thanks to the Joomla’s superb template engine and Nooku Framework, Anahita is now powered with one of the finest template engines available today.
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ajmal afif, 
Ahmad Alfy 2:26 pm on September 13, 2009 Permalink
Looks interesting!\nIncluding MooTools 1.2.3 will not cause any conflicts?
Rastin Mehr 2:38 pm on September 13, 2009 Permalink
Thank you! No they don’t becuase they don’t get loaded both in the same time.
Lance 4:54 pm on September 13, 2009 Permalink
The partials functionality is very impressive as is the mootools\nswitching. Anahita really is good. Will all open social apps soon to be created for the Ning network (since they have now realease ning apps) be able to work with Anahita.
peerglobe 6:24 pm on September 13, 2009 Permalink
@lance,
For open social apps to work directly with Anahita, we need to develop an opensocial container like shinding (http://incubator.apache.org/shindig/) for Anahita first. We will look into that hopefully after our first public release.
Rastin Mehr 6:30 pm on September 13, 2009 Permalink
@lance,
True, right now we are considering and following the Open Social guidelines and philosophy while we make sure we are not exclusively married to it. At this moment we are focused to perfect the platform and API first. We also have to finish migrating to the next release of Nooku Framework which is 0.7 before investing in developing APIs for social apps that are not running directly inside the Anahita Social Engine container.
ajmal afif 11:51 am on September 29, 2009 Permalink
hello Rastin Mehr and all, I am visitor here and after about an hour of reading almost every page of Anahita, I can quite say this component or engine is super-impressive!
I couldn’t find the right post to get this out so I hope you guys dont mind I am posting this here. I want to share my overall feedback after went through this whole Anahita thing:
What catch my attention the most was the scalable Amazon cloud option and injected module, Gadget (could use some explanation on Gadget). These are really the killer-features IMO.
Another thing is I am surprised to see that Anahita doesn’t utilize real-time (or relative) timestamp just like every others do. Namely Facebook, Twitter and more. Even some other Joomla’s components like k2, etc. also make use of this timestamp format.
From the option of scalable Amazon sw3, we could assume we are looking at potentially large pool of users. This pool could mean the end users could consist of regional or even worldwide user base. This is when relative timestamp comes in. 4 hours ago means its 4 hours ago, regardless where we are in the globe.
The problem with typical Joomla components (BuddyPress etc. already utilize relative timestamp as option) are indeed, this. Yes there is timezone setting. But that just means, whenever users login/logout, the time will show differently when users’ local time aren’t the same as server’s timezone setting.
Another thing that I found missing is, the backend screenshots from Anahita.
From my quick run through, this minimalist looking yet extensible social engine are doing everything so perfectly up to this point. Hopefully some issues or challenges could make this goddess matures even faster and better!
my $0.02. Thanks for your time.
ajmal afif 8:11 pm on September 29, 2009 Permalink
upon my comment above,
I overlooked two most interesting features listed by Anahita core devs.
1) Translatable Interface & Messaging! My goodness looks like Anahita has been planned flawlessly. Again with that Amazon sw3 in mind, having multiple languages support is much need. This is something that other devs could easily overlook.
2) Facebook Connect – import friends and Activity Stories. This has not been done by any Joomla social components out there yet. None. If anything really do this, then Anahita is really the pioneer of this feature.
seems like killer-features are almost half of list. I could say this is not just another great looking Joomla community handler. Anahita has substances, from the look of it.