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By teja Filed under GSoC

 

Bootstrap CSS for CiviCRM UI was conceived as a project to provide a templating layer to native CiviCRM elements.  For the past three months, my efforts for focussed on this. As we come to the end of my GSoC project, here are some updates.

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By Eileen Filed under Extensions

I have a few payment processing related projects on the go but having just gotten the first one to alpha stage I thought it would be a good time to share some thoughts (& try to get them straight in my mind). The project I am referring to is developing a Cybersource Secure Acceptance POST payment processor. For this payment processor I had a big challenge and also a big opportunity.

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the sixth beta release of CiviCRM 4.5 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.5 sandbox site!

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By cividesk Filed under Training

During the last two weeks of August, Cividesk will be offering all four training classes:  Contacts, Membership, Events and Contributions.   Each on-line session is two hours in length and classes are kept small in size to allow for Q & A.  Click on the link below to learn more about the curriculum for each session, specific class dates and times on our calendar, and to register for one or all of the classes.  

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By andyw Filed under Extensions
What is Bitcoin?

So you may have heard about Bitcoin, some of you might be quite familiar with it - but for those who aren't, it is a digital currency - a form of electronic cash which can be used to make online payments, transfer money to friends - in theory, anything that you can do with traditional money, you can equally do with Bitcoin.

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By Eileen Filed under Release announcements

There is a new release here http://sourceforge.net/projects/civicrm/files/civicrm-stable/4.2.18/ - it deals with a regression on contact images introduced in a security patch. If you are having trouble viewing contact images you should upgrade to it.

 

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the fifth beta release of CiviCRM 4.5 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.5 sandbox site!

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By spidersilk Filed under Documentation, Tips
Contents: Introduction Understanding the Structure of Dedupe Rules Creating Dedupe Rules Basic Dedupe Rule Attributes Field Weights, and Weight Threshold Some Recommended Rule Recipes
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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the fourth beta release of CiviCRM 4.5 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.5 sandbox site!

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By jamienovick Filed under CiviCon
No matter who you are and what you do for your organisation, CiviCON 2014 will have something for everyone.    There will be plenty for people coming to find out whether Civi is right for their organisation, with client case studies from both small and large organisations using Civi and in-depth demonstrations of what is possible with Civi and Website integrations such as Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress.   
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