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  Rastin Mehr 12:28 am on October 10, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: anahita ( 36 ), bootstrap ( 4 ), Capistrano, Git, LessCSS, podcast   

  Anahita Podcast Episode 10: You Tweet, I get a honk! 

  

  The following is the podcast recorded last week on Sunday September 30th 2012 with Ash Sanieyan, Bob Bloom (http://www.southlasallemedia.com), Nick Balestra  (http://www.Beyounic.com), and myself ( Rastin Mehr ). I really wanted to publish this podcast this Monday, but it was the Canadian Thanksgiving and we were all stuffed with food and marinated with wine. The content of this podcast is a bit more on the technical side in order to nurture the hacker in you.

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:10:14 — 32.2MB)

  In this podcast we discuss the following topics:

  1. Designing responsive templates for application interfaces using Twitter Bootstrap.
  2. Using LessCSS technology for application interface design.
  3. To what direction is Anahita heading in regards with discarding all the Joomla code and replacing them with native Anahita code?
  4. Using Capistrano technology in order to have more frequent Anahita releases.
  5. How will Anahita be utilizing Git and RubyGem technologies in combination with Capistrano for agile development and deployment of projects?
  6. A summery of Anahita as a commercial open source project, it’s core team, and the current involvement of the Anahita tribe in the development process.

   

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    Miles 6:17 pm on October 30, 2012 Permalink

    After working with a handful of different responsive design approaches I settled on Goldilocks for most of my projects. It’s ridiculously easy to implement, and I’ve found it to be the most liberating in terms of design.

    Golidlocks doesn’t worry about pixels, device size or resolution, but instead focuses your project on readability – using the optimum reading width in ems (not pixels) as its starting point. The result is a design that’s device, resolution and pixel independent.

    I just began experimenting with Anahita, and at first glance it looks like Bootstrap is baked right into Anahita’s base template – so it’s probably going to be very difficult to use any sort of alternative, even in a custom theme. But if you’re exploring other approaches to responsive design definitely check out Goldilocks.
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  Rastin Mehr 2:39 pm on September 3, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: community management ( 2 ), gantry framework ( 6 ), joomla ( 9 ), podcast   

  Anahita Podcast Episode 9 

  

  Here we are publishing (not recording) the Anahita podcast episode 9 from the Melriches Coffee & Tea House on Davie Street, Vancouver. Last month, we were so busy preparing the new birth release of Anahita that we didn’t get a chance to record a show for you, so this is the first podcast after the Anahita 2.0 Birth release and it was recorded during our last week’s hangout session. In this episode Ash and I are answering questions from two Anahita tribe members @Chaim and @Scott (BeerLovers.com).

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:03:28 — 29.1MB)

  In this podcast the following topics have been discussed:

  1. Should you delay the launch of your social network if only a basic implementation is available for some features that you need? A discussion about the private messaging in Anahita.
  2. Will sending out thousands of invitations lead to an engaging community for a new social network?
  3. What justifies businesses to consider a niche market social network while there are large networks such as facebook and twitter available? What type of businesses are more likely to consider a niche market social network and how can you help them?
  4. How to inspire a group of students in a dormitory to pick up playing the Piano and lessons to learn from this analogy to start a community with influential leaders rather than aimless site testers? How do people learn to utilize a new social network from the existing influential leaders on that network?
  5. The pros and cons of having separate actor profiles for people and businesses.
  6. A discussion about the new development cycle that Anahita project has adopted since version 1.6 embryo to be able to have more frequent birth releases.
  7. How do things stand with respect to the Gantry Framework? What is going to replace it, and whether it will be mobile accessible?
  8. Is it possible to represent an installation of Anahita as an individual root actor node and what will be the benefits and possible challenges of that approach?
  9. A discussion about the process of removing Joomla code from Anahita and whether it will affect some of the existing functionalities.

  Questions? Comments? Please feel free to post your comments here about this podcast.

   
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  Rastin Mehr 2:12 pm on May 8, 2012 Permalink
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  Anahita Podcast Episode 8 – FAQs From the Tribes 

  

  English Bay, Vancouver, Canada

  I finally got the time to edit and publish this podcast from Friday April 27th 2012. Last week I was busy with moving to a new apartment in a very beautiful neighbourhood (picture above) and that left little time for me to publish this podcast on time. I must give you a nerd alert that content of this podcast is a little on the technical side, but you will find the discussions very useful. The most important part is answering the top 5 most frequently asked questions from the Anahita tribes. In this podcast we had Bent and Ravi from the Anahita Premium tribes participating in the discussions.

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:14 — 26.2MB)

  In this podcast we cover the following topics:

  • Discussing scenarios that people need to follow a collection of groups with similar contexts that are associated with each other. For example study groups within a department in a school.
  • Will it be better to host these groups on the same network or multiple social networks? What are the possible options to design such a social network.
  • Five Frequently Asked Questions from the Anahita Tribes:
  1. Is there a demo for Anahita ?
  2. Is there a project roadmap ?
  3. What sort of skills are required to setup and customize Anahita ?
  4. What sort of skills are required for developing Anahita apps and extensions ?
  5. Is there a documentation available for Anahita ?
  • Is it possible to have sub-groups in a social network ?
  • How would one develop Anahita apps without using any UML diagrams ?

  Enjoy this podcast and please let us know what you think!

   
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  Rastin Mehr 8:34 pm on March 26, 2012 Permalink
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  Anahita Podcast Episode 7 

  

  Nick joined us from a wifi enabled restroom

  This is the Anahita hangout from Friday March 23rd with Nick Balestra (co-founder of beyounic.com), Umesh, Ravi, and Bob Bloom (founder of southlasallemedia.com), Ash Sanieyan and myself (Anahita founders).

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:02:55 — 28.8MB)

  Nick joined us from a wifi enabled bathroom on the University campus which he doesn’t attend. No he was not using the toilet, but looks like that is the only quiet place he could find at the time. The rest of us were sitting in regular rooms, answering questions and enjoying the round table discussions. Here is what we talked about:

  1. A short interview with Mr. Nick Balestra from Beyounic and Ohanah who have recently raised funds for their startup.
  2. Folksonomy in Anahita using knowledge nodes and a discussion on database scalability and system’s performance (Technical)
  3. What’s the best way to delete a node in a social network while maintaining the data integrity of the relationships within the system. (Technical)
  4. Differentiating legitimate customers from none customers who demand free service and support (Community Management)
  5. How community ideas and suggestions are incorporated into the Anahita project and how a design by committee outcome can be prevented in an open source project. (Product Design)
  6. Discussing http://www.ActivityStrea.ms and standards used for exchanging stories across multiple social networks. (Technical)

  I hope you enjoy this podcast and find it to be informative. If you have any comments please feel free to post them here.
   
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  Rastin Mehr 2:54 am on March 3, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: community management ( 2 ), podcast   

  Anahita Podcast Episode 6 – Community Management 

  

  This is the Anahita hangout podcast recorded last Friday on Feb. 24th 2012 with Rob Saric (twitter @robsaric) from WhyHire.me and Rob Jameson (twitter @mosaicrob) from MassMosaic.com where Ash Sanieyan and Myself (Rastin Mehr) answer questions about Anahita social networking platform and framework as well as participate in a round table discussion about lean startup philosophy of developing a minimum viable product (MVP), community management, as well as Pinterest.com social networking service.

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 49:52 — 22.8MB)

  1. Using the composer as a command line interface to unlock promotions, configurations, and tapping into the collective intelligence of a social network.
  2. What is the best process to develop a minimum viable product (MVP)
  3. How to develop a community that could evolve into a self sustaining and collaborative environment?
  4. Diversity is strength. Rather than squashing variations, nurture them in designated places and nurture diversity.
  5. Is it possible to treat a community and social network as a centralized knowledge base, or is it in fact a distributed network of information bits where knowledge emerges?
  6. Building taxonomy using node associations and knowledge nodes
  7. A small talk about the Pinterest.com as an emerging successful social networking service.

  If you enjoyed this podcast please Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter, and join the Anahita tribes.