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Stay updated with all the latest happenings at Techjoomla. From news about the developments in your favourite extensions to Tips & Tricks about the Joomla CMS, Framework & Development.

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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4 Steps to Successful Outsourcing

Nobody can do it all. In web development and design, some projects are simply beyond the scope of a person or company’s expertise, time, or capabilities. Complex coding, custom extension development, or new, innovative elements may call for the help of a third party. Teaming up with the right outsourced expert– who has the specialization, knowledge...

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JGive 1.6-See what's coming in this awesome new release! P.S. Feedback requested!!

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As you know, we try & get our customers involved in the development process as much as possible. This helps us start a conversation & listen to ideas & feedback & help come out with better releases. As part of this initiative, we have our series of "Subscriber Connect" Newsletters & Blogs which keeps you abreast of what we are d...

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Tweaking the JMailAlerts Latest News plug-in to send out JEvents Latest Events

Sometime around mid July, i got an email from one of our J!MailAlerts users - Scout Master Mike Lyman. He was looking for a Jevents plugin for J!MailAlerts & during our conversations, he came up with a really innovative way of sending JEvents Events via J!MailAlerts. I suggested he do a guest blog post for us about it, and he kindly complied. T...

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Will Gmail's new tabbed interface affect Email Open rates on Newsletters ?

Recently Gmail has introduced a New 'Tabbed' interface that intelligently categorizes your emails into Tabs. The feature is pretty intelligent & categorises conversations pretty accurately. This really helps in getting your inbox uncluttered so you can focus on whats important.. The feature lets you choose which tabs you wish to enable from a m...

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How JTicketing and REST APIs powered Joomla Day India 2013

How JTicketing and REST APIs powered Joomla Day India 2013

Organizing and Attending Joomla Days can be a lot of fun. If you haven't been to one yet, I would recommend you definitely book a seat on the next one happening near you! Organizing one is a lot more work ofcourse but its a ton of fun and gives you some really great experience and collaboration skills.  So all of us here at Techjoomla and Tekd...

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JomSocial 3.0 is here ! What does this mean for you ?

After a long wait & a through testing process, JomSocial 3.0 is finally here ! It brings a host of new features, usability improvements & bug fixes. The biggest take home for users is the new Responsive Design. A New customisable Introduction area, a brand new toolbar, Cover Photos for Profiles, Groups & Events & a Single two c...

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Is Joomla a Good Choice to Build Intranets?

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Intranets need a unique combination of features. If you are thinking about building an Intranet for your company, several requirements will come to the fore. To decide on what platform works best for you, you need to analyse these requirements & then evaluate systems based on that & of course the cost of procurement, implementation & ma...

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Techjoomla & Tekdi Web Solutions to Go Epic this Joomla PBF !! Join in the fun

The Techjoomla & Tekdi Web teams have committed an epic 100 hours to Joomla's first Business PBF to happen on Friday, 12th of July 2013 ! We hope to test & squash quite a bit of bugs then. We invite you to Join us  in helping make Joomla better !  In addition to our own dev's we are opening up our Offices for those who are in...

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Mr. Prince Goel talks about his portal Madbooks.com

Hello all ! We are starting a new Blog series with site Case Studies & Customer Interviews. We kick off this series with the interview of Mr. Prince Goel who is the founder of madbooks.com an awesome site that lets you buy & sell used books. Prince is using our extension Profile Completeness on his site to encourage user...

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iDEAL support for SocialAds, Quick2Cart, JGive & JTicketing from JD iDEAL

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Dutch Users rejoice! Now the popular payment gateway from the Netherlands is now available for all our extensions that need payments as listed below. SocialAdsQuick2CartJGiveJTicketing iDeal is used by more than 50% online shoppers in the Netherlands. We have JD iDEAL to thank for this great integration. Note that if you wish to use to use iDeal wi...

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iDEAL support for SocialAds, Quick2Cart, JGive & JTicketing from JD iDEAL

Dutch Users rejoice ! Now the popular payment gateway from Netherlands is now available for all our extensions that need payments as listed below. SocialAdsQuick2CartJGiveJTicketing iDeal is used by more than 50% online shoppers in the Netherlands. We have JD iDEAL to thank for this great integration. Note that if you wish to use to use iDeal with ...

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#jpositiv The Story behind the hashtag !

#jpositiv The Story behind the hashtag !

If you are involved with Joomla in anyway and are on Twitter its very likely that you have at some point seen the #jpositivhash tag. If you have not, Its a cool hash tag to share positive news in the Joomla world & help spread the Joomla love on twitter. There's a nice story to how it was born.. Back in 2011 the joomla community was plague...

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Setting up Mandrill to handle your Joomla Emails without any additional plugins using SMTP

Mandrill is a scalable and affordable email infrastructure servic from MailChimp. In just a few easy steps, you can setup Mandrill to handle all the outgoing emails from your Joomla sites. If you are finding that your emails are landing up in Spam boxes of users,this is one way to quickly & painlessly avoid that. Mandrill can be setup with Joom...

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Joomla is what you make it !

What is Joomla ? Why Joomla ? Can Joomla do this ? These are some of the most common questions that come up in any client pitch, consultation or any non Joomla events that i speak at. The answers very much depend on the target audience & are given depending on their level of technical know how & areas of Interest. I believe Joomla is like clay.. th...

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Celebrate Mother's Day with Techjoomla & Get an awesome discount storewide !

Mother's love knows no laws which has helped us grow to what we are today. We would like to offer her a grattitude and celebrate this bond by offering Mothers Day Discount ! Yes !! We are giving an additional 15% Off on ALL purchases including our new promotional packs !! Offer Ends 12th May Midnight. Use the code below when you checkout to avail t...

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