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On paper, Parth does the Sales & is the CEO of Techjoomla so to speak.. But he loves getting his hands dirty with code, innovating & helping the team come up with new stuff !

Working in Joomla since the times when it was called Mambo, Parth is passionate about everything opensource. A Mechanical Engineer by profession, Parth was working with...

On paper, Parth does the Sales & is the CEO of Techjoomla so to speak.. But he loves getting his hands dirty with code, innovating & helping the team come up with new stuff !

Working in Joomla since the times when it was called Mambo, Parth is passionate about everything opensource. A Mechanical Engineer by profession, Parth was working with content management systems like PHP nuke while doing some voluntary work for non profits when he stumbled upon Joomla & was completely hooked 

Parth has been involved in the Joomla project as part of the Joomla Bug Squad, was a mentor for Joomla at Google Summer of code & plays a key role in managing Joomla User Group Pune & organising Joomla Day India. Currently, he is serving on the Joomla Marketing working group leadership as the Strategic Marketing Manager. 

When not in the office, you will find Parth in the mountains hiking or cycling, reading a book , cooking or gardening ..

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JBolo 2.9.2 IE compatibility release

JBolo 2.9.2 is mainly a Internet explorer ver 7 & 8 compatibility release to fix some known issues in IE 7 & 8. Also from this version on IE6 support is officially dropped. It also has some UI fixes that will also make it work better in other browsers. The JBolo 2.9.X series from here on will only have maintenance releases & all new fea...

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Beating the summer heat with Rangapanchami !

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...

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Joomla finally takes a REST!

Introduction Joomla can now finally take a REST! Techjoomla has released the long awaited REST API for Joomla. The release is released under the GPL license & is completely free to download & use. Built on an architecture similar to XMLRPC, this API is easily extendible using plugins. So if you have an extension need a REST API for it, just...

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Techjoomla- The Road to Joomla 1.6

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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.

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SocialAds 2.0 Stable is here with CB Support & loads more !

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 !

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Introducing the Interns for 2010-11

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...

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Introducing "Intern's Corner"

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 ...

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JBolo 2.9.1 released

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..

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Invitex Beta 8 Is out for testing

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 : ...

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Broadcast for JomSocial in the Labs

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...

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Invitex Beta 7 is released

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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...

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Valentines Day offers for JomSocial Customers

  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 ...

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SocialAds 2.0 Beta 1 Released to Subscribers

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...

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JBolo 2.9 Stable released with File sending support

JBolo 2.9 Released

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..

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JBolo 2.9 Beta 3 Released

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 ...

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