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Hey All,

All of you have been asking us about where we stand on Joomla 1.6 compatibility so I thought its time we give you an update of the status.

Hey All !
Sorry to surprise you.. so soon with a Blog about SocialAds 2.5 just after the 2.0 Stable release.. While the Beta was out for testers, we weren't just sitting & waiting around for Bugs to arise..
We were already working on the next Major release of SocialAds thanks to a sponsor who agreed to chip in to get a lot of our features that were actually months ago done right away ! In fact, we plan to name the release after this client ! All I can tell you in the intro is that the changes in 2.5 are absolute dynamite.. We are packaging pure advertising power in this release to blow your mind away :) & make you even more money ;) To tease you even more, we are going to be doing a series of blog posts over the next few weeks & unravel one feature after another ! Over to Dipti for the details ..

Parth Lawate

Why have plugin triggers?

The ability to add Plugin Triggers in your Joomla extensions, is a great asset to developers which is not always used to the fullest extent.. Having various Plugin events in your extension means that you give other developers the ability to extend your extension, or modify it to suit their requirements without having to hack core files. The same logic that is used by Joomla content plugins or JomSocial plugins etc can also be applied to your extensions.

Use of Plugin triggers when hacking/ modifying extensions

At Tekdi Web Solutions we do a lot of Joomla Service & get client needs to modify extensions left & right. Where possible this is always done using Plugins & overrides. But the time comes when a hack has to be made. To reduce the impact, instead of modifying the whole extension, we just add plugin triggers where needed & usually send back the modifications to the original developer where possible. This serves two purposes. One is that the code maintenance is way easier & its very easy to document & identify these small hacks. Secondly, there is always a chance that if the main dev accepts your patch, these "hacks" might become regularised in the future.  Even if they aren't, it's still much easier to re-patch the extension with plugin triggers.

So in order to share this knowledge, I asked one of our Developers, Shantanu to write a small blog about how you can go about adding triggers. Shantanu is just one of the new bloggers I shall be introducing to this blog in the next few weeks. So stay tuned for more!
Over to Shantanu for the same! Read on to read the full blog!

Parth Lawate

Hey Folks ! We have some great news for all those CB fans out there !
SocialAds 2.0 with support for Community Builder is here ! Now CB based networks will get the ability to use this easy to use tool to monetise their sites.  I am sure this announcement will bring smiles on a lot of faces ! The Beta testing period was extended to ensure that most issues were reported & fixed but its finally here .

Besides the added support for CB, SocialAds 2.0 packs loads of new features as well as tons of Bug Fixes..

New Features include :

1. Community Builder Integration Option
2. Charge per day
3. Fuzzy & Exact Mapping option for Text fields & Targeting Engine Revamp
4. Quick Stats in the Approve Ads view
5. View Ignores & Ignore Stats
6. Offline Payment methods
7. Guest Ads

Read our Blog here for more details on how all the above works & looks !

Read on for the full change log & Upgrade instructions , please read on. The release is available to all subscribers in the My Subscriptions area. P.S. Watch out for a Blog later this week about SocialAds 2.5 Beta ;) Yes 2.5 !

We have taken on 4 Interns this year from various colleges in Pune. These guys shall be working on a variety of technologies with us & we wish them luck & hope they will have loads of fun doing it ! Throughout their training period, all of them will be blogging about what they are learning as part of the collaborative learning experience th...

Every year Tekdi Web Solutions & Techjoomla both take on Interns in a bid to bridge the gap between the academia & the industry & give these college freshers some training & on hand experience in how things work in a real work environment & especially Open Source. In many cases, the best of these interns are invited to Join our ...

JBolo 2.9.1 has been released today with some admin enhancements & lot of bug fixes. If you have been facing issues where chats were going slowly in some cases, this should fix the issue.  Plus now there is a installation check list & some nice JBolo user stats on the admin. Release is available to all subscribers & we urge you to upgrade ASAP !

If you want to see the complete Changelog, please read on..

Invitex Beta 8 is our for testers. Note that this version is for testing only . Not recommended for use on live sites. Please report bugs via Tickets. Note that Beta tickets cannot be resolved immediately but are added to our Bug tracker & resolved usually over a period of one week. Change Log Bug #4047  : fatal error php memoryFeature #3914 : ...

For the past few weeks we have been working on a new Application that will make integrating you JomSocial community with the 3 Big Social networks viz. Facebook, Linked In & twitter much easier. A Big complaint from a lot of our customers is that very few users ever update their JomSocial Status. They prefer to udpate the status over at Twitter...

Invitex Beta 7 is out. Subscribers can get it in the My Subscriptions area. Changelog is as below. Changelog Bug #3763 Sign Up link in invitation showing 404 errorBug #3770 Contacts imported receive a blank invitation emailBug #3771 Sign Up page showing warning when try to registerBug #3791 Object of class JException could not be converted to strin...

  Use the Coupon Code : LoveJomSocial to get an amazing 31% if you buy the above Products OR 20% off on all our Products. Hurry, this offer lasts only till 15th February Know more about the Products below : SocialAds. Monetize your Social Network So you have an excellent JomSocial Network up & running ? Now is the time to Monetize it with this ...

The Big Beta of SocialAds that you have been waiting for is finally out in the wild for those willing to test it out. Its very near stable atleast for the JomSocial release. We still want some help testing the CB integration. Our closed beta testers bug reports are already fixed & hence we now present it to you. All our loyal customers who have...

JBolo 2.9 Stable with file sending support is now released go the general public. This version has all known & reported issues fixed.

Thank you so much for waiting for this release for so long & thanks very much for all the users who have helped test our Beta & make this version stable.

The major attraction of this release is the ability to send files to the user you are chatting with. This is the one major feature besides a host of bug fixes that makes this release much more stable & much less likely to have conflicts with any other extensions.

Stay tuned to JBolo updates as these few months we have dedicated to releasing new updates to JBolo & more new features are coming real soon. We shall be blogging live about these new things & approach that we are taking starting from Mid February.

The Download is available to all active subscribers in the "My Subscriptions" section on the site.

For the full change log please read on..

JBolo 2.9 Beta 3 is released. This contains a host of fixes & file transfer is also stabilized. Please see change log below.. Task #2624: Use seperate function for UI manipulation instead of old which include ajax callsTask #2625: Fix usage of username/firstname instead of user id at many instancesTask #2627: Creating minification build script ...

We are pleased to announce the release of four new content Plugins for J!MailAlerts ! JomSocial Group Activities Plugin The long awaited Group Activities plugin for JomSocial that will let you send Group Activity digests to your JomSocial Users is finally here ! Whats more users have full control on what Groups they want alerts about & also wha...