13 years ago on this day, the core Mambo development team in a letter to the community announced its intention to fork away from the Mambo project. This letter was the seed that led to Joomla becoming a reality. However the name Joomla was not announced till the 1st of September 2005. It was a time of change. Head to these early posts on the Joomla...
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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.
Your Events, Your Stage: The JTicketing Event Manager App is Here to Steal the Show
Introducing the JTicketing Event Manager App, your new co-star in creating flawless events. We built this app to tackle your biggest headaches so you can get back to what you do best: making your audience say, "Wow!"
Building Chatbots with Joomla
Chatbots are a great new way to engage with clients. A chatbot allows for a more "conversational" style of interaction as opposed to the traditional "transactional" way of interacting with web applications. A well-designed conversation experience can keep users hooked and increase the time spent with your applications. In this blog, we write about how we used FlowXO to create a quizzing bot for Shika
Joomla! is participating in the SEO contest Siebtlingsgeburt 2017 !
When it comes to CMS comparisons between the popular content management systems, 'Out of the box SEO Capabilities' are always a very important factor. Now for those who have used Joomla! know that Joomla's SEO capabilities have steadily improved over the years and the new router in Joomla 3.8 takes it up several levels. To prove Joomla's mettle in...
iSpring SCORM officially supported in Shika !
We are happy to announce that Shika now has official support for iSpring SCORM content. Shika developers and technical experts at iSpring recently conducted compatibility tests to ensure that iSpring content works well with Shika. Authoring good quality SCORM content can be a long and exhausting process. iSpring makes this a breeze ! With iSpring’s...
Shika 1.1.9 is out with hierarchy based assignments
We are happy to announce the release of Shika 1.1.9 which is a feature and maintenance release. We have consciously made a decision to do releases in the 1.1x series that move away from the ideal principle of semantic versioning in order to fill feature gaps in the 1.1x series before embarking on the next true major release which will be 1.2. So expect to see more feature releases in the 1.1x branch that make the extension more solid and enterprise ready.
This release introduces a new feature that has been a horizontal extension for Techjoomla but wasn't released as yet - com_hierarchy. This lets you set context specific hierarchy relations between users. The utilisation for this is mainly to set training managers for users. These 'Managers' shall be able to assign & enrol courses to users under them from the frontend with the new Assignment workflow that is also released in this version. This is also a dependency to our migration to TJ reports which will allow for features like Teacher reports and Manager reports in v1.1.10.
Besides this major feature, we have also introduced a configuration for Certificate orientation & introduced a spent time column in the attempts view on the frontend.
Read on for the full change log
Shika 1.1.7 is here
We are happy to bring you Shika 1.1.7 with some usability enhancements, improvements in permission handling & some bug fixes. We now auto create the first module when you create a new course. There are now finer grained permissions for intra course operations - in this case Manage training material.We recommend you upgrade as soon as possible !
You can read on for the complete change log
JTicketing 1.9 is here with better URL routing and more !
While our team works on the big and beautiful JTicketing 2.0, we bring you an interim update in version 1.9 with PHP 7.1 compatibility, a better URL router as well as improvements in field based advanced filtering with TJ Fields integration. Besides this we have fixed quite a few bug fixes and added a default Zoom value for the Google Map display o...
Enrich your standup meeting with WIFLE & 02(Occasion Opinion)
I'm sure, many of you have already attended many standups before reading this blog. If you are not familiar with standups, below are some useful links.
https://www.blossom.co/blog/3-tips-for-quick-effective-stand-up-meetings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-up_meeting
http://martinfowler.com/articles/itsNotJustStandingUp.html
https://sprint.ly/blog/scrum-meeting-best-practices/
In short, a standup helps you to keep track of your team's progress on a daily basis. Stand-up is a 'self reporting' meeting. In Agile, the team members don’t necessarily report to a team lead. Its main objective is to self organize a team. According to me, standup is a great opportunity to meet all your team members at the same time & get an idea about the lists of tasks an individual is doing during today's schedule & whether any assistance is needed to accomplish those tasks! The meeting should not last for more than 15 minutes for 5-6 teammates!
Alright so we're convinced with standup meetings. We conduct standups daily. Everyday we come, we meet, we discuss & we work.(How boring! I felt really boring while even adding this sentence) We need to add some spices & have some TADKA(tempering) in order to make our standup meetings really interesting. Here, I want to help you make your standup meetings really happening using some out of the box ways!
Roadmap for Shika 1.2
The latest major release for Shika, our Learning management system (LMS) for Joomla - version 1.1 introduced 20+ new features and a host of bug fixes and improvements. While we continue to improve on the 1.1x release with minor release, development on the next major release has already started !
Read on to see what you can expect in the next major release - version 1.2.
Joomla World Conference is going to Vancouver! Are you ?
Over the years, 2 conferences have become the mecca for Joomla users worldwide. The J&Beyond Conference that happens around the middle of the year in Europe and the Joomla World conference which happens in November and since the last 2 years has been travelling the world with the latest editions being held in India last year. This year the Worl...
Shika 1.0.8 released
Shika 1.0.8 has been released with some critical bug fixes. We encourage updating as soon as possible. While the team gears up for the next Alpha release of 1.1 and move steadily towards a feature rich stable release, we are continuing to do minor releases of the 1.0 branch and ensure you get a rock stable version of Shilka.
If you are not using the most ground breaking LMS in the Joomla space yet, get onboard now !
For the complete changelog, read on.
Shika 1.0.7 released
We are happy to announce the release of Shika 1.0.7. This is a maintenance release and fixes some bugs in the previous version.
We suggest upgrading to the latest release. The release is available in the downloads area. Click on read more for the full changelog.
Shika 1.0.6 released
We are happy to announce the release of Shika 1.0.6. This is a maintenance release and fixes some bugs in the previous versions. We have also solved the package size issue in v1.0.5.
We suggest upgrading to the latest release. The release is available in the downloads area. Click on read more for the full changelog.
Lets vote for Joomla at the CMS Critic Awards!
Its that time of the year again when you vote for your favorite CMS at the CMS Critic Awards! A regular at the Awards Joomla has made it once again and has been nominated under the "Best Free CMS" category. Lets show our love and make Joomla a winner again this year! Head over to the Awards Page and cast your vote today! Vote Now ! Image Credits :...
Shika 1.0.5 Released
We are happy to announce the release of a new version of Shika. As announced earlier, we are following a parallel release strategy allowing us to keep working on new features that a lot of users are asking for while maintaining a stable branch with regular updates & faster updates.
In this release of the 1.0.X branch we bring you new set of bug fixes. Subscribers are encouraged to update immediately. Please read on to for the complete change log.
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