Rastin Mehr

Our partner @peerglobe have just launched their new corporate website which is less cluttered and far cleaner than before. We are envious and would like to re-skin the rmd Studio website too!

You might have heard rumours around the web about this project, but the cat is out of the bag and the project is real. 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 round the clock in collaboration with Johan Janssens and Mathias Verraes, as Nooku MVC Framework consultants from Joomlatools, to develop the ideal Open Source Social Web platform.

Is this yet another facebook cloner? Not really! In fact unlike many microwave-quick-oatmeal social networking builder options available out there, our focus has been to develop a generic, modular and flexible platform for developing Social Web * (as ANYTHING) and that will include not only Social Networking websites, but also Social Intranets, eLearning, Community Markets, Services and electronic goods Support & Distribution websites, or any unheard of social web business and work flow models that we could ever come up with in the future. As you can see Social Networking as we know it today, is only one of the many possibilities.

We also think that for a project to success it does not matter that how great it is at a certain point of time, but how well it is able to evolve and change over time. A design that adapts itself to different life case scenarios and market trend changes will have a much higher chance of survival and success. That means staying modular, generic, and not trying to be everything to everybody!

So we have built that framework

The good news is that Anahita project is now finally ready for deploying client projects. The public GPL release is yet few months away and there is a good reason behind it:

Continue reading What is Anahita Platform and Framework?

The number of downloads for RubberDoc Joomla! extension has been overwhelming. Since the release date we’ve actually had more than 14,000 downloads and not to mention a large number of support requests.

Unfortunately we haven’t been able to come up with a next release since we have been so busy delivering client projects and putting all resources on the Developing the next release of Anahita Social Web Engine project ( which is ready for client project deployment btw!)

And none of the people who were sending support questions for the free and open source RubberDoc did not want to pay for the service, which means we could only respond to those questions on our free time which we have very little of! Continue reading What is the status of RubberDoc project?

I think recession is just another word for dinosaurs getting wiped out. Every once in a while business practises and models that are no longer effective and efficient get removed from the ecosystem, and a whole new generation of species emerge because they focus on being innovative and doing things differently. In other words, an economic recession is the process of Natural Selection in the Market Evolution process. The problem is that for a while we have do deal with the disturbance and the smell of dinosaurs carcasses rotting around us.

I don’t think we can change that, but we can change the way we operate and manager our lives and businesses to coordinate with the changes in the environment.

I would also stay away from mainstream news media. Advertisement spending and market is in the historically low. TV, Radio, and Newspapers are pushing sad and depressing news more than ever to get some more audience. So their distorted view doesn’t quite reflect the realities of what’s happening today. “Experts” and “Forecasters” focus on things that people can understand rather than things that are actually happening. Reporters love the experts, because they generate content for them. Experts love to be on the spotlight to promote their agendas, and this vicious cycle continues.

On the other hand it is a great time to gather some people that you have good chemistry with and start your own company. After all that is where real job security is where you get to pull all the shots and if something doesn’t work, you get to fix it yourself. Or join a smaller niche market company where there aren’t many layers of management, and business operations costs are much lower so they hit the break-even much quicker and make profits.

Before wondering what template and layout design to have for your content management powered website, first make sure that you have worked out the information design and how your content will be organized and entered in the CMS, or else you would be tailoring clothes without knowing a body’s shape, size, and measurements.