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Developer at Techjoomla & responsible for making sure you get a bug free, quality releases on time!

* Music, Coffee, Colors, Piano, Stories, Web, Lappy, Green trees and Blue sky.

* Coder, Blogger, Workaholic at work, Twitaholic at home, Writes lines of code & paragraphs of stories, Living and loving open source.

* Aiming for excellence in open source - "Let there be peace and free code pieces!"

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SocialAds 2.7.5 Beta 4 out for testing

Hello all, With many minor bug fixes along with the bug fixes for bugs reported in previous 2.7.5 beta 3 version we have released SocialAds 2.7.5 beta 4. The major changes in this include "click tracking support" for both flash ads and video ads.  We need a feedback from you guys specially for IE broswers testing. Given below are changelog and rele...

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J!MailAlerts 2.4.2 Beta is here with Alert Types !

We are excited to announce the BETA release 2.4.2 for JMailAlerts. With this release we are introducing "Alert Types" in JMailAlerts(JMA). Now you can create different alert types with any number of plugins without being stuck with a single Email for all your Alerts. With Alert types, it means you chose what plugins go into each type, how frequentl...

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First Graduates of our Google Plus Development Challenge ! Profile Imports & Activity Display

google plus logoAs part of our internal "Google+ Joomla" developer challenge to create Joomla Products using the new Google+ API in a full day coding session, we asked interested Devs to use the API & create new or improve our existing products. Here's what they came up with ..

Profile Imports for JomSocial

A while back we developed a Extension to allow users to Import their LinkedIn Profile to JomSocial (either as part of the Registration process or later via a button) . This hasnt been released yet.. But this was a nice starting point to extend the extension to support the Google+ API to allow you to import your Google+ profile into JomSocial.. Manoj took up this one & managed to get quite a bit of it done !  Read on for a walk through of how it works.. 

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JMailAlerts 2.4 - Pre release look

With version 2.4 we are introducing support for "data tags" in J!MaillAlerts.

jma tags

What is data tag?

[jma_latestnews_js|secid=1|catid=1,3,32]
[jma_latestphoto_js]
[jma_latestnews_js|secid=3]

In this example, you will see 3 tags added to email template, out of which 1st and 3rd are data tags and 2nd is a normal JMA(JMailAlerts) tag.

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The Right way to fetch media in JomSocial - Developer Blog

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While doing some R & D work while working on J!MailAlert plugins, we realized that majority of extensions were not using the right way. This resulted in broken image links, especially when using Amazon S3. So here's some easy to use code snippets to fetch JomSocial Photo thumbnails, Video thumbnails, Group Avatar thumbnails etc..This is missing...

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