NouvelleCuisine is a product that will allow you to enhance creativity, information sharing, and collaboration.

NouvelleCuisine has two key features :

  • Setup is based on one of the most common computer skills : spreadsheets.

  • The requirements to deploy it are extremely simple: a simple web server (Apache, IIS, lighttpd, etc) is all that you need

Here is an example of what can be accomplished with our product :

NouvelleCuisine Example

Global architecture of NouvelleCuisine



The contents of the portal are described in a Google Spreadsheet. When NouvelleCuisine starts, it reads the Spreadsheet and adds widgets (or gadgets) to the page depending on what it finds in the configuration spreadsheet. It is possible to have widgets for Youtube, Slideshare presentations, RSS Feeds, Google Documents, Google Maps... And if the widget for your content is not available, it is possible to add a new type of widget.

Global architecture

Collaboration


The main goal of NouvelleCuisine is to improve collaboration between people. With this solution, there are no technical brakes, everybody can administrate his own content and publish it to the portal.

Example of collaboration allowed by NouvelleCuisine

Serverless


Technically speaking, the application has been developed with nothing but GWT 1.5, and a GWT-based library called GWT-DND for Drag&Drop functionality. There is no server side code, everything is client side: putting the portal on a simple web server is sufficient to allow access to your portal to people around the world.

We called our project NouvelleCuisine, in reference to the French word characterising the new French cooking trend. For us, this portal is a way to get a mashup solution with no infrastructure costs.

The possibilities offered are very large because anybody can use this portal to present his vision of a specific theme.


Demonstrations


You will find portals using NouvelleCuisine here
Currently, there are three samples :