Magento News Weekly #045: Magento Master Anna Volkl, Interview with Dave Macaulay and Max Pronko, Tutorials to Make your Life ...

Magenticians
January 20, 2017

Hello there, magenticians! TGIF, right? And we’re back with our weekly Round up as well for you to keep up with all the important Magento news.

Shedding spotlight on yet another Magento Master is Sherrie Rohde, a regular entrant in our list. Anna Volkl, who is now the Lead Magento developer at E-Conomix, is based in Austria and here’s your chance to get up close with her!

Magento’s Marketing Team brings you a great piece on how to setup your Magento 2 Development environment faster. The same team also bring you some mind-boggling data: $101 Billion is Digital Commerce sales by Merchants in 2016 using Magento!

Piotr Kaminski brings you news on the security vulnerability on the New Zend Framework 1.

Syed Muneeb Hasan, an expert in PHP and Magento, bring you an exclusive with Dave Macaulay. Dave is a senior Magento Developer at Gene Commerce, and if you were looking forward to getting to know him better, here’s your chance!

On our list of interviews is another one with Max Pronko, conducted by Natalie Pavlovskaya. If you’re a newbie with Magento, you should follow Max Pronko without delaying your decision.

Tutorials are helpful, and there are few helpful tutorials than the ones produces by Fayyaz Khattak. This time he has produced an excellent one on how to configure Memchaced with Magento 1.x. Head over here to know how it’s done!

Syed Muneeb Hasan also brings you a great tutorial to make life easier for you. If you were having difficulty with adding custom tab to product page in Magento 2, you won’t anymore! Just head here for the tutorial.

Ever heard things like ‘Magento is slow,’ and ‘It’s not suitable for your small business?’ Well, many rumors keep you from choosing it as your CMS of choice for your online. But this article will bust all the myths surrounding Magento, so you can convince your friend that it is, in fact, a good choice for his online store!

Formatting date and time is slightly complex. But if you were given the link to this article, you’d think otherwise. Herve Guetin, a Magento expert and executive technical leader for open-minded ecommerce players, has written a great tutorial for you to format date/time and displaying them nicely with moment.js.

If your Magento store isn’t fast enough, you might lose many precious customers. So you need to know about all the bells and whistles that speed up your store, and this article by Andrey Tataranovich does a good job of it!

That’s all that we have for the week! We hope you all have a great weekend ahead, and we look forward to seeing you guys back next week and greet you with fresh content!

And yes, don’t forget to share the news with all your fellow Magenticians!