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We are at the end of 2014 and it was an awesome year! With a brand new website, moving to our new offices, a slew of updates on our products and a brand new E-learning product Shika; this year was filled with innovations and new beginnings. Writing the 2014 review for Techjoomla was a time of introspection for us and that's resulted in some great i...

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!

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 int...

Yesterday morning i got an email from Google regarding the release of their new but restricted Google+ developer API. We immediately decided to hold a Google+ Joomal Developer challenge today for all those who had spare time on their hands..  The Goal - Use the full day to build whatever extensions they could with the Google+ API for Joomla..T...

Its Saturday afternoon & we are having JUG Pune's Pizza & Bugs at the Techjoomla offices. We have 22+ people on board for helping the JUG Pune team. Lots of guys from the Tekdi & Techjoomla team have also decided to dive in !Check out the Photos herehttp://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151065603095038.778692.676390037&type=1&a...

Tamhini is an awesome place to visit...Especially in the monsoons. The road meanders through mountains covered with a lush blanket of green & gushing waterfalls welcome us at every other corner. This was the place that was chosen for our monsoon outing after much deliberations on whether to go for a Trek or a Trip.

A Private bus was hired and attendance for the trip was at an all time high ! Only 3 people couldnt make it.. But still there were about 24 of us as we started out on the Sunday morning. The Sun was out as we embarked on our journey ( not at all promising here in India in the monsoons ! - So there are no really 'Nice Sunny Days' here ;) ) . We were hoping for rains & a nice windy atmosphere.. but at least it didnt look like that in the morning :(

Summer months in India can be supremely hot with temperatures going as high as 48 Deg C in some regions ! What better way to beat the heat than water ? We grabbed our chance to get drenched & splashed with colours on Rangapanchami.Check out our "Coloured" faces at our Photo Gallery !At Techjoomla & Tekdi Web Solutions we believe in having f...

The Joomla Community Support Challenge !Our Parent Company Tekdi Web Solutions has launched a Joomla Community Support Challenge for its new Trainees. Here's a Snapshot Each trainee starting the 20th of June shall aim for Posting 30 useful posts on the Joomla forums per day.The trainees have a collective goal to contribute 3000 useful posts to the ...

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...