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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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November 2010

Save Big this Diwali ! Diwali the Festival of lights is here & with it your chance to get an amazing 20% off on All of our extensions ! If you need to get any of our extensions or renew your expiring subscriptions, now is the time ! Discount Code : DIWALI201 JomSocial Power Pack Get the best of our JomSocial extensions at one cool price ! Just ...

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JomSocial Network Suggest now has output randomisation & JSPT support !

JomSocial Network SuggestionsWe are pleased to Launch JomSocial Suggest V 1.7 which comes with a hoard of fixes, features & code improvements. Network Suggest has been one of our oldest & most well received products. Its matured over time & is one of the best tools for JomSocial today to boost networking. We have been listening to your feedback & 90% of all feature suggestions to date have been incorporated in this version ! We recommend you do an upgrade immediately.

In  a snapshot, JS Suggest now has support for JomSocial Profile types ( XIPT/ JSPT) which means you can chose which profile types to suggest. Optional output randomization which means users see new suggestions on each refresh. Option to show only profile with Photos, which is a great addition for dating sites ! Plus an optimized query :) Read on for the full change log.

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Copy of JomSocial Network Suggest now has output randomisation & JSPT support !

JomSocial Network SuggestionsWe are pleased to Launch JomSocial Suggest V 1.7 which comes with a hoard of fixes, features & code improvements. Network Suggest has been one of our oldest & most well received products. Its matured over time & is one of the best tools for JomSocial today to boost networking. We have been listening to your feedback & 90% of all feature suggestions to date have been incorporated in this version ! We recommend you do an upgrade immediately.

In  a snapshot, JS Suggest now has support for JomSocial Profile types ( XIPT/ JSPT) which means you can chose which profile types to suggest. Optional output randomization which means users see new suggestions on each refresh. Option to show only profile with Photos, which is a great addition for dating sites ! Plus an optimized query :) Read on for the full change log.

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Techjoomla Oct 1 Newsletter

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. JomSocial Discount Get 25% with coupon code: jomsocialtech expires: 8 Oct 2010 CB/Ning to JomSocial Migration Service We are now offering a migration service for people who want to move from NING or CB to JomSocial. With JomSocial going GPL & you getting such a mega discount ,its the best...

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Celebrate the Ganpati Festival with us !

Come celebrate the Ganpati festival with us ! In Indian mythology, Ganesha is revered as the god of intellect & wisdom & is considered a patron of the various arts & Sciences. The Ganpati festival is celebrated with great ferver all over India. Celebrated for approximately 10 days from 'Ganesh Chaturthi' to Anant Chaturdash, this is the...

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Invitex V1.3 released with Open Inviter plugin updater

Invitex V.1.3 has been released with the much awaited Open Inviter plugin update feature. Now you can simply set a crop to update the Import contact plugins from Open Inviter directly. You dont have to wait for a Invitex update to get OI plugin updates that are used to import contacts from gmail,yahoo etc.

Additionally a bug which still let JomSocial integration users access the JomSocial native invitation system link has now been solved.

Please read on for the full change log. Active subscribers can download the latest version from the my Subscriptions area.

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SocialAds 1.1 is here with Authorize.net , JS Points payment plugins, Promote Groups & events !

SocialAds 1.1 is here & comes packed with some cool new features !  To start with, we are supporting 2 new payment methods. One is Authorize.net meaning you can now have people pay using Credit Cards for the ads & the second is Paying using JomSocial Points ! So those of you who want to use JS Points as the mode of payment, go right ahead !

Next up is easy Promotion of Groups & Events using Social Ads. Simply Click on Promote this Event or Promote this group & get your ad auto created for you based on the group or event information.

Besides these additions quite a lot of bugs reported by clients, internal testers & client beta testers have also been fixed in this release. You can click on read more to see a full change log. Users with active subscriptions can download the new version from my subscriptions menu.

 

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JBolo 2.9 Beta with Group Chat & File sending is out for testing

This is a open Beta release for those who are interested in testing out new features. Note that this release is not intended for live sites & no Support for this release is provided via Tickets. You can however report any bugs you find using the bug tracker at : http://techjoomla.com/report-bugz-jbolo-only.html . Please do not report known issu...

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Syndicated: 5 Fantastic years with Joomla. A nostalgic look back...

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Today, on the 1st of September 5 years ago Joomla was unveiled to the world for the first time. It's time for celebrations for the Joomla community worldwide which is one of the most diverse communities in the Open Source world. With the least entry barriers, where anyone can come in & take leadership & make change happen. It is this marvelous community of users, developers, designers, documentation creators, bug reporters & fixers, evangelists & every single person that has touched & been touched by this piece of software.

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J!Bolo 2.8 is out with custom Status Messages, shiny new design options, Smiley popups

Jbolo 2.8 is here Firstly , We'd like to apologize for the long delay in this release. We have some major modifications coming in the next version 2.9 like Group Chat, File transfer etc which were under development which are not very stable yet. So we decided to make a release with features that were stable & then push the exciting ones as a Beta ( to be released later this week) .

J!Bolo 2.8 comes with a hoard of bug fixes & great new features like Smiley Popup, Custom Status, an Improved History interface & 2 cool new design thanks to PSD contributions by one of our cool J!Bolo users.. Pedro Alves. If you are looking for any design stuff, we'd recommend him any time ! & once you look at the new design options the New Gradient Bar & Black 3D theme, i am sure you will too !

We recommend all users upgrade to the latest release ASAP. The release will be available in the My Subscriptions menu for active subscribers. Note that we are releasing JBolo 2.9 Beta in the labs later this week. That version should not be used in Production sites.

Please read on for the full change log.

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Product introduction video for Network Suggest

Check out the new product introduction video for Network Suggest for CB & JomSocial. If you got one of these extensions running on your site, Network Suggest is something you gotta have !

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Product Introduction Video for People You may know is out

Check out the new product introduction video for People You may know for CB & JomSocial. If you got one of these extensions running on your site, People you may know is something you gotta have !

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SocialAds V 1.0.3 release. Update for major bug fix

We apologize for a release so close on the heals of the earlier one. We decided to release this fix release soon as a bug reported was found to be pretty major. We have also pushed in some additional fixes along with. Please update immediately. Click on read more for the changelog ..

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SocialAds v.1.0.2 Bug Fix release. Recommened Update

SocialAds version 1.0.2 has been released with a hoard of bug fixes & some minor usability improvements as per your feedback in these initial few weeks of release. Now you can show Untargeted 'alternate' ads to guests as well. The ad duplication bug reported also has been solved. We recommend that you update to this release ASAP.

All Subscribers can download the latest release from the 'My Subscriptions' . For a full Changelog, read on..

 

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SCMeta 2.0 Section category meta manager for Joomla is out

The latest version of SCMeta, the Meta data manager for Joomla sections & categories is here. Version 2.0 comes with many long sought fixes as given below. Change log : 1. If no meta data is present the plugin would not show the default meta data2. Section Meta keywords do not reflect in some cases3. Category meta keywords do not reflect in som...

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