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On paper, Parth does the Sales & is the CEO of Techjoomla so to speak.. But he loves getting his hands dirty with code, innovating & helping the team come up with new stuff !

Working in Joomla since the times when it was called Mambo, Parth is passionate about everything opensource. A Mechanical Engineer by profession, Parth was working with...

On paper, Parth does the Sales & is the CEO of Techjoomla so to speak.. But he loves getting his hands dirty with code, innovating & helping the team come up with new stuff !

Working in Joomla since the times when it was called Mambo, Parth is passionate about everything opensource. A Mechanical Engineer by profession, Parth was working with content management systems like PHP nuke while doing some voluntary work for non profits when he stumbled upon Joomla & was completely hooked 

Parth has been involved in the Joomla project as part of the Joomla Bug Squad, was a mentor for Joomla at Google Summer of code & plays a key role in managing Joomla User Group Pune & organising Joomla Day India. Currently, he is serving on the Joomla Marketing working group leadership as the Strategic Marketing Manager. 

When not in the office, you will find Parth in the mountains hiking or cycling, reading a book , cooking or gardening ..

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Let's Collaborate

   Joomla as we all know was derived from the Swahili word which means 'All together' . Being part of the Joomla community, its natural that extension developers come together & collaborate to build tight integrations between their products. Supporting each other's extension in a value add for both - the extension developers as well a...

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JTicketing 1.5 Alpha 1 Released!

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We are pleased to announce the availability to JTicketing Alpha 1 for testing. This is another step towards an awesome new stable release for JTicketing. This release has 80% of the planned features of JTicketing 1.5.    So your input now is critical. Please help us test this release & file your bugs!  Thank you all who have contributed to test...

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Our Experiments with Agile & Status of current sprints for SocialAds & JTicketing

If you have been following our blogs, you'll know that we are experimenting withuse of Agile for our Product development process & as a test are having two scrum teams each working on a release of SocialAds & JTicketing.  So far the progress has been great & we have learnt a lot of things along the way.   Many of you have been...

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SocialAds 3.0 Alpha 2 Released !

We are pleased to announce the availability to SocialAds Alpha 2 for testing. This is another step towards a awesome new stable release for SocialAds. This release Ads a couple of new features from Alpha I & has several bug fixes & stability improvements. 

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The Main Features added in this Alpha are Admin Ad creation & Backend ACL for SocialAds. Now as of Alpha 2 the release is feature complete as per the SocialAds 3.0 Roadmap. We will now be concentrating on doing all round improvements in the release for UI/UX , Bug fixes & Stability improvements. 

So your input now is critical. Please help us test this release & file your bugs !  Thank you all who have contributed in testing so far ! Please read on for the full change log including Alpha 1 & Alpha 2.  

You can download the release from the My Subscriptions area. To report bugs, head for the forum & post your comments.

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Using The Paypal Sandbox to test your Paypal Standard, Paypal Pro & Paypal Adaptive Payments !

Note- You can no longer sign up for PayPal adaptive. It will work only if you have an existing approved app. PayPal supports a variety of APIs & Payment methods. So wading through their documentation & finding what you exactly want can be a real pain.. We have to explain how to this to customers all the time. So here is a blog to help you u...

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Joomla The CMS, The Framework & the License - Thoughts & Questions

If you are active on twitter, Facebook & follow Joomla related discussions there or on the Forums, you might have heard of a major discussion on in the community currently. That of the decision of considering a license change for the 'Joomla Framework' to LGPL (From GPL) . Note that this proposed change is for the Joomla Framework, current...

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Best Practices to get a Paypal Adaptive Payments account approved Fast !

Note- You can no longer sign up for PayPal adaptive. It will work only if you have an existing approved app. With almost all of our E Commerce extensions adding support for Paypal Adaptive payments, we have been getting a lot of emails & support requests to help setup the Paypal application for the same. Though its not possible to have exhausti...

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Still on Joomla 1.5 or Joomla 1.7 ? Its time to upgrade !

The Joomla 1.5X series was one of my most favorite releases. It was one of the most advanced CMS systems when it was released, had an awesome MVC architecture that took development to a new level in Joomla & it was rock stable. After the Mambo days, the Joomla 1.X series did a great job in maintaining the code but it was 1.5 that was the game c...

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Save more this Christmas with Techjoomla. Using Discount code XMAS2513 ,get 25% off on your purchases throughout the store on all extensions as well as on all the Power Packs! Offer lasts till 1st January 2014. JoomPlace offers a great opportunity to save big while purchasing any Joomla! Extension in its store during Holiday season including newly ...

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A very Happy Diwali to all customers

The TechJoomla team wishes all our customers and users a very Happy Diwali. Note that our offices will remain closed until Tuesday, 20th October 2009. Responses to support tickets might be delayed until Tuesday for the above reason. In case you haven't got hold of any of our exciting Social Networking products, you can do so at a discounted pr...

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JGive 1.6 Beta 1 is here!

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We are pretty excited to announce the availability of JGive 1.6 Beta 1 for testing. This version brings some really exciting new features as given below. Remember however nice the Screenshots look, that this is a Beta release. So don't use it on live sites! The release is available in the My Subscriptions area for you to download. Feature Highlight...

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JTicketing version 1.4.4 is here!

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We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of JTicketing v1.4.4 to our subscribers. This version introduces some great usability changes including better implementation of bootstrap, One-Page checkout & a new Dashboard control panel in the backend. This is also an upgrade that you will need to do if you plan to use our brand new IOS & Android app for Event owners. 

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Let's take a quick look at the Features

  • One Page checkout flow for a quicker & streamlined checkout experience
  • Billing information capture during checkout introduces
  • Compatibility with JEvents 3.1.7 & JomSocial 3X
  • VAT Reg No Field added on request for EU customers
  • Invoice support added on request for EU customers 
  • Basic Taxation support introduced
  • Better Bootstrap implementation 
  • New Control Panel with a dashboard

This is a release that we would recommend everyone upgrades to. To read the full details of this release including all features & bug fixes, please read on. 

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Join us for a Live Webinar about Invitex on 11th Sept 9AM EST !

Here is an awesome chance for you to know how Invitex can help you get lots & lots of new members for your website ! The guys at CloudAccess have invited us to do a Webinar about Invitex & share the secrets of Setting up Invitex in the best possible way to make your site go Viral ! What is Invitex ?  With Awesome features like Native Api contacts i...

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Invitex 2.8. See Whats coming in this awesome new Release ! P.S. We want your feedback !

As part of our Initiative to involve our custommers in our development process, here is another Subscriber Connect update on Invitex. We have another awesome release of Invitex planned out for release over the next few weeks. We have listened to your feedback in planning this release & hope you will be as excited about it as we are ! The Subscr...

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Join us for a Webinar about SocialAds @CloudAccess !

The guys at CloudAccess have invited us to do a Webinar about SocialAds & share the secrets of what goes into setting it up to Maximise the Revenue earning potential of your website ! With innovative features like Flexible Zones & pricing, Email Ad delivery, Extensive Social, Geo & Keyword targeting, Flexible pricing models &a...

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