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Ashwin is the Lead geek at Techjoomla. The CTO so to say :) Ashwin has been dabbling with Joomla since the Mambo days. He knows his way around PHP Frameworks - Wordpress, Drupal, Magento as well any kind of coding in general just as well as he knows Joomla. The Guy to go to when anyone is faced with a tech challenge, its also his job to make...

Ashwin is the Lead geek at Techjoomla. The CTO so to say :) Ashwin has been dabbling with Joomla since the Mambo days. He knows his way around PHP Frameworks - Wordpress, Drupal, Magento as well any kind of coding in general just as well as he knows Joomla. The Guy to go to when anyone is faced with a tech challenge, its also his job to make sure the code getting shipped is top notch !

Ashwin loves to travel, eat, cook and of course speak at Joomla Conferences! 

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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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JS Mutual Friends for Joomla 3X is here !

JomSocial Mutual Friends plugin is now compatible with Joomla 3X !    Changelog : + Added support for Joomla 3.0.x - div's overlap when postion set as "sidebar top position" - Dropped Joomla 1.5.x support Read Install & Upgrade Instructions Get 10% off by using the coupon code JSMF3.0, offer valid till May 2, 2013. So hurry and get your copy now!!

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jLike - jomlike in its whole new avatar is here with awesome new features & 20+ extension integrations !

We are glad to announce the release of jLike ! The supremely flexible & extendible likes dislikes system for Joomla ! After we acquired jomLike & jomGive from our friends at CorePHP last August, we had promised both existing subscribers as well as our customers of exciting & ground breaking changes & features to both the extensions. With the releas...

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Listen Up ! SocialAds 2.9 is out with Ad wallet, Campaigns, Budgets & Joomla 3X support !

We are super happy to let you know that SocialAds 2.9 is here with Awesome New Features + Joomla 3.X Support ! Techjoomla

SocialAds 2.9 brings you a whole new Advertising Pricing Model which we call Advertising Wallet. With this new model, SocialAds introduces the concept of Campaigns & Budgets. You add money to your Ad Walllet, create any number of campaigns you want & set daily spending budgets for the campaigns. You can create Ads against campaigns without having to pay & checkout for every Ad.This not only streamlines the flow for your advertisors but also allows them to group their Ads in campaigns & manage their spend in a better way.

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Google Ads, Facebook & LinkedIn Ads already work on this model. Note that SocialAds will continue to support both the Orignal Pay per Ad mode as well as the new Ad Wallet mode. You have the option to choose which suits you best !

If you wish to switch your payment model to the new Ad Wallet mode, we have provided a quick migration tool that will convert your user's existing ad balances to the new model on a prorata basis. The Migrator also supports a migration from Ad Wallet mode to Pay per Ad mode.

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Note that from this version onwards we have dropped support for Joomla 1.5. Existing subscribers can download this release from the my Subscriptions area. Please look at our updated documentation for details on migrating to the new mode if you wish to. If you are not using one of the greatest Advertising Systems for Joomla yet, Buy it today !

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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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Zoo - Creating an address field element

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Here's a short tutorial on creating a Zoo element that has multiple sub-fields. A good example for the same, which we've also used as a sample is an address field. An address field will typically have different parts such as city, zip, state etc. I assume you have already gone through the zoo documentation on creating a new custom element - http://...

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Easter Sale!!

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Its time to welcome the Spring and there could be no other better way than Shopping !!  So come and meet our Bunny who is ready offering discounts on all our extensions storewide!

 15% Off Storewide till 31st March

Just use the discount code - EASTER2013 while shopping in our Techjoomla store. 

The deal expires on March 31st, 2013. So Hurry!!

Read on for some more awesome deals from our partners.

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Mobile App for Joomla Day Boston 2013

It makes us feel proud and very much glad for helping Joomla Day Boston 2013, by sponsoring a mobile app for the event. The app features in covering the entire event program, speakers, Social tweets and more !! So if you are hosting any of the Joomla Day events, then Tekdi Web Solutions and Techjoomla would definitely love to contribute for the eve...

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Sponsored Apps for making your Joomla Events Awesome !

Hey all Joomla Day Organisors ! We are now offering a sponsored Mobile App development to get your Next Joomla Event an awesome smartphone app for IOS & Android. We have developed several event apps to date & have seen that these are a pretty cool value addition for both attendees & Sponsors.  Here is what our App can do for your E...

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JTicketing for Android at work

Last week we wrote about a sneak peek into the new JTicketing Android app. This weekend, we got a fantastic opportunity to use it for an actual event. Techjoomla was a proud sponsor for the recent Joomla Day India that happened on 9-10th February 2013. And that's not it, our own J!Ticketing was powering the event booking engine of Joomla Day a...

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Joomla Day India, JTicketing and a whole lotta fun!

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Team Techjoomla was at the Joomla Day India (Mumbai) this weekend, and what an event it was! We had Ryan Ozimek (Ex-President, OSM), David Hurley (Development Team Leader) and Ofer Cohen (OSM Board Member) fly in from USA and Israel. Additionally, more than half a dozen speakers from various parts of India made up for an exciting lineup of talks for both days. We also had an enthusiastic audience from several parts of India, and all of them were more than willing to soak in every bit of the knowledge the community wished to impart! This also marked the alpha release of the JTicketing app for Event Managers. Read more about it at the end of the story. The Joomla Handshake #jhandshake too was ideated, you can view the video on Ryan's Vine.

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Techjoomla is Coming to Joomla Day India

Hello Everyone!! Joomla! Days are organised by local Joomla user groups to spread more knowledge about Joomla amongst the regional audiences. The event aims at providing the unique opportunity to Share, Inspire & Collaborate with Joomla users, developers, trainers and service providers along with pre and post networking, Q&A, and food ! Techjoomla ...

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Creating your own ajax popups and actions in Jomsocial

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Everyone using Jomsocial like how they show those nice popup windows when you add friends, send a message or join a group.

In a project where you integrate more features or other extensions into Jomsocial, it's important to use the same look and feel for the popups so that there is a consistent look throughout the site. With Jomsocial's plugin architecture it is possible to add your own popups and actions. We're demonstrating here an example, which allows you to group your friends as Friends/Family/Acquaintances etc

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Join Joomlart & Techjoomla in Helping raise 1M $ for the Joomla Project & get an awesome deal in the process !

Hey All !  We have joined hands with Joomlart this week to bring you our greatest deal ever ! Whats more, this deal is part of the Humble Bundle project which has the goal of raising 1M$ for the Joomla project. So buy this deal today & do your bit for the Joomla community while getting a once in a lifetime chance to buy awesome products wo...

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Join Joomlart & Techjoomla in Helping raise 1M $ for the Joomla Project & get an awesome deal in the process !

Hey All !  We have joined hands with Joomlart this week to bring you our greatest deal ever ! Whats more, this deal is part of the Humble Bundle project which has the goal of raising 1M$ for the Joomla project. So buy this deal today & do your bit for the Joomla community while getting a once in a lifetime chance to buy awesome products wo...

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