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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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JTicketing Roadmap 2013-14. See whats coming up!

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Our extensions are regularly maintained & we keep adding new features to extensions periodically. Features are based on our users feedback on the forums, via Tickets, email & Social Channels. Do Comment on this article & give us your Feedback. Your inputs shall be considered in order to convert this Draft roadmap to a frozen one. Commen...

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Quick2Cart 1.0.1 out!

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Hi All,

A minor bugfix release version 1.0.1 is out for Quick2Cart, following is the changelog.

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JGive 1.5.1 released

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We have released a minor update to JGive - version 1.5.1. Here is a detailed changelog. JGive 1.5.1 Changelog - Compatible with Joomla! 2.5.x & 3.0.x - Bugs fixed (5)- #15028 If campaigns are not present then don't show campaigns module- #17290 Undefined variable msg controllers/donations.php line 166- #17126 Campaign module showing unpublished...

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Deploying Joomla projects using GIT

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Over the years we've been using various methods to deploy websites to servers. FTP is everyone's first love and hot favourite. But when GIT came along and we started using that our VCS of choice it became increasingly evident that we can use it for deployment too. The biggest challenge here was managing the database.  Because of the way new table c...

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Quick2Cart is here!

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It's a great pleasure to announce (finally ;)) that our super flexible E-commerce solution for Joomla is here! For those who haven't heard about this yet, here's a recap!

In all the years we have been working in Joomla, we have continuously been frustrated with the lack of a shopping cart solution that's plug & play & at the same time is robust & scalable. There are lots of Carts in the market. But for most applications, they are just too huge & come with a lot of overheads.

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Email Beautifier 1.0.8 released

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Hello all, we have released a bug-fix version of Email Beautifier today. Take a look at the changelog.

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JGive (formerly jomGive) - Donations & Fund Raising for Joomla is here! Rewritten from Scratch with awesome new features

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It gives us great pleasure to introduce JGive the Fundraising & Donations extension for Joomla. After we took over the reigns of JomGive from CorePHP, we wanted to take it to a completely new level. The result is right in front of you... JGive!  JGive is a powerful  “crowdfunding” extension that enables your members to create fundraising projec...

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Adding Custom Fields to Joomla Categories in Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.0

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We recently had a special case scenario where we had to develop a Quick2Cart plugin to sell Joomla Categories.  We were consistently hitting a wall trying to show our custom fieldset for Quick2Cart in the Joomla Category Add/Edit view. We already have a content plugin for this which shows Quick2Cart in Joomla content items. But it simply wasn't wor...

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Developing with Zoo - Programmatically creating "Edit Item" links for Zoo CCK

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Zoo - Techjoomla Blog to programativally insert links, Techjoomla.com

Zoo from the YooTheme guys is a pretty awesome CCK for Joomla with some mind-blowing features. Whats more, they have made it extremely easy to use for the end user. It can be easily scaled to handle all kinds of content management situations that you might encounter.

It's so flexible, in fact.. that we have used it for Variety of applications using Shopping Carts (with Quick2Cart Integration), Online Product Catalogs, Download Managers, Business directories & what not

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Joomla 3.0 is here. 3 Things that Matter most!

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joomla-3.0, techjoomla.comJoomla 3.0 was released a few minutes back & it brings some revolutionary changes to the Joomla world. From 1.0 to 1.5 to 2.5, Joomla has been notorious for laborious migration processes. We bid adieu to migrations with 3.0. I admit this has really happened in the 1.6, 1.7 versions which were at the best forgettable. So 3.0 is the first real version that shows this. This I believe is the biggest news for Joomla end users. With this Joomla has given yet another reason to stick with this awesome & versatile platform.

01 Joomla 3.0 for Integrators & Site Builders & End Users-  Bye Bye to Migrations & Hello to Upgrades!

02 Joomla 3.0 For Developers - JUI & Bootstrap Uniform & great looking UI without having to Code!

03 Joomla 3.0 - For End Users - Great new UI & UX, Responsive by Default. Mobile Here we come!

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Joomla File Rsync & Database Sync Script

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One of the major headaches of maintaining a Joomla demo is that you have to refresh the data every now & then to restore the demo to its best as user usage can change a lot of data & interfere with the optimum demonstration of your products. We used to do this by simply having a cron job restore a backup of the database with the optimum data. But this had major issues as we had to upgrade extensions on the demo to the latest & these in some cases also involved structural database changes.

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Quick2Cart - Flexible eCommerce for Joomla is in the Labs!

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Why Another Cart?

In all the years we have been working in Joomla. Be it in Product development or Providing services to customers, we have always felt the need for a flexible, scalable Shopping cart solution. There are lots of Carts in the market, but for most applications, they are just too huge & come with a lot of overheads. Since we couldn't find anything that fits the bill, we decided to Build one ourselves.

We decided that at least at first, we don't want to do the Product management. So we have provided integrations with Just about all the CCKs that Joomla has at the moment, including Joomla Content as well as a Widget that you can place just about anywhere. Which means you can use any system of your choice to manage your Products.

With Quick2Cart, we shall concentrate on a fast & easy checkout process with all the necessary bells & whistles like Discounting, Shipping, Taxation & Lots.. we really mean lots of Payment Gateways. 

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RIP - 'Vanilla' Joomla Emails with Email Beautifier

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How many of you have looked at the silly 'welcome email' and complained that it's so very un-cool? Gosh! I see so many hands up in the air! So here's an answer to all of that.. and more. With the Email Beautifier, making your Joomla emails look nicer is as simple as A-B-C. Email Beautifier catches all* emails going from your Joomla site, wraps an a...

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Search.. the way LinkedIn does

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I think all of us admire the User Experience improvements all of the social networks are continuously doing. Facebook keeps pushing these tiny things and so does LinkedIn. One thing that LinkedIn has had probably from day 1 is the fantastic search. You can choose what to search - People/Companies/Jobs etc

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