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With 109+ million downloads, 1500+ volunteers and powering 2+ million websites Joomla is a compelling platform to build websites and applications alike. While most of the contributors are working on making Joomla better, there are people who are working on some exciting side projects which would make their way into Joomla at some point.  

We have yet another major release for JTicketing. JTicketing 2.7 brings some amazing new features to the Joomla Event ticketing space. Event attendees can now submit feedback for the attended events. They can now get certificates for their checked-in events. 

We are happy to release a new update for our popular Joomla advertising solution. SocialAds 3.2.0 is here with a compatibility update for new maxmind library along with many more improvements.

This release fixes a security issue found in our internal testing and also introduces some feature improvements and bug fixes. We encourage you to upgrade to this release as soon as possible. 

Read on for the detailed features and complete changelog.

As technology advances at lightning-fast speed, the recruitment industry is under immense pressure to attract (and retain) the best talent – quickly and cost-effectively. HR departments are always on the lookout to streamline their interview process.

We are happy to present to you our end of the year Christmas sale. Now is the time of the year to shop for your favorite products. Ring in the new year by grabbing some amazing deals on our extensions and bundles. Get 15% off on all Techjoomla products and bundles.

JTicketing 2.6 brings some fantastic new features to the Joomla Event ticketing space. We have introduced a set of new filters on the Events page in a more compact format. 

Techjoomla is happy to announce our new collaboration with JoomlaShine for the integration of our popular Joomla LMS - Shika with the brand new JSN eCourse template from JoomlaShine.

Every developer uses a set of tools that simplifies their life and without which their development life feels crippled! Over the years, I have developed my own set of tools which I have described in this blog.

Celebrate Black Friday and Cyber Monday by grabbing some awesome deals on our extensions and bundles. In a nutshell, this is what our amazing deal brings you : 

• 20% off on all Techjoomla Products
• 35% off on Shika
• 10% off on all bundles getting you as much as 35% effective Discount

Delivering and tracking learning programs is one of the fundamental features of an LMS. While most LMS will support online delivery and tracking of some standard learning formats like SCORM, not a lot of other content can be used for online viewing with the ability to track. Tracking can mean a lot of things - tracking time, Progress, Scores, etc. Depending on the lesson type Shika supports some or all of these tracking parameters. 

The eCommerce sphere is growing by leaps and bounds, with consumers making more purchases online than ever. 

From fashion brands to household goods, multiple eCommerce stores are giving stiff competition to each other. This is why brands need to constantly keep up with the latest trends and innovate to get ahead of the curve. 

Undoubtedly, Joomla! is one of the most popular and flexible CMS for building websites and online applications of all types and sizes. The large number of extensions help give a headstart to any project.

Like other software frameworks and platforms, a lot of Joomla projects have adopted DevOps processes to streamline their deployments. This also helps scaling of Joomla sites to run on multiple servers. At Techjoomla we have been using Jenkins, Ansible and GIT to deploy Joomla sites for several years. Recently we have also started exploring Docker for containerized deployment and easy scaling.

For the Indian economy, agriculture has always been one of the most important sectors driving growth for the country. 

In 2018 alone, the Gross Value Added by the agriculture, forestry, and fishing sectors was a whopping  $271 billion. Today, agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for 58% of the population.

In this series of blogs, we will talk about common mistakes to avoid while building extensions for Joomla!.

In this particular blog, we will talk about these four common mistakes:

• Not using language constants and instead of hard coding language strings
• Not using JInput and instead directly accessing $_POST or $_GET
• Not using the Joomla Database layer and writing plain database queries instead
• Wrong usage of loadObjectList / loadAssocList() (Using loadObjectList() when just 1 row is needed)