Rafael Diaz-Tushman
A self-taught programmer and life-long entrepreneur, Rafael Diaz-Tushman has started several internet businesses over the years. Rafael is the CEO of Dioscouri Design, a Manhattan, New York-based web-design firm which he founded in 2007.
Rafael was first introduced to Joomla! in February of 2007. Frustrated by Joomla's limited Access Control Levels (ACL), he wrote JUGA, an extension that attempted to address some of those limitations with the explicit aim of not hacking the core. Released in June 2007, JUGA immediately gained a large following and by December 2007, over 10,000 users had registered on Dioscouri.com.
Since then, Rafael has shaped Dioscouri into a leading Joomla! consultancy that provides businesses with the tools necessary for successful growth. Including JUGA, Dioscouri has released 16 Joomla! extensions and now has over 70,000 registered users.
Rafael graduated from Columbia University in 2002 with his BA in English Literature. In 2008 he earned an MBA from the Darden Graduate School for Business Administration at the University of Virginia.
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Tienda Development Workshop
Tienda is the new and complete ecommerce extension for Joomla from Dioscouri Design. We have been developing Joomla extensions since first releasing JUGA in 2007.
Tienda is built on the Joomla MVC framework, is easy to use, and is extremely extensible. It provides your Joomla site with ecommerce capabilities that leverage all of Joomla's full potential without complicated configuration. Tienda aims to be the first Joomla extension to bring native Magento-like capabilities to the Joomla CMS without being a bridge and without using encryption. With nested categories, native support for Joomla plugins, rich templating, and custom fields, you could even use Tienda as a CCK just by disabling the ecommerce/checkout capabilities on a category-by-category basis.
In this session, Dioscouri Design Founder & CEO, Rafael Diaz-Tushman, will lead a workshop on building Joomla extensions for Tienda (and any other of Dioscouri's 16 extensions). Bring your favorite IDE, knowledge of PHP, and an idea for an extension because we're going to build it together. You should expect to walk out of this workshop with the knowledge & tools to build a working extension of your own that extends Joomla, Tienda and/or any Dioscouri extension. You may even finish yours during the workshop :-)
To demo Tienda before the talk, download it on http://www.dioscouri.com, where you can also watch video previews of Tienda in action.
Cheers!
Tienda Demo, Discussion, and Workshop
Tienda is the new and complete ecommerce extension for Joomla from Dioscouri Design. We have been developing Joomla extensions since first releasing JUGA in 2007.
Tienda is built on the Joomla MVC framework, is easy to use, and is extremely extensible. It provides your Joomla site with ecommerce capabilities that leverage all of Joomla's full potential without complicated configuration. Tienda aims to be the first Joomla extension to bring native Magento-like capabilities to the Joomla CMS without being a bridge and without using encryption.
With nested categories, native support for Joomla plugins, rich templating, and custom fields, you could even use Tienda as a CCK just by disabling the ecommerce/checkout capabilities on a category-by-category basis.
In this session, Dioscouri Design Founder & CEO, Rafael Diaz-Tushman, will lead a demo and discussion on how to create a powerful online business using Tienda, Joomla, and maybe a few other Dioscouri extensions.
Rafael is also the lead developer on the Tienda project, and would be happy to extend the talk to include a workshop on building Joomla extensions for Tienda (and any other of Dioscouri's 16 extensions).
To demo Tienda before the talk, download it on http://www.dioscouri.com, where you can also watch video previews of Tienda in action.
Cheers!