In the second installment of our cross-posting of Matthias Zeis (@mzeis) his bi-weekly Magento News, we gloss over the weeks 23 and 24.
Magento
- Comprehensive list and comparison of the different Magento product imports by Andreas (@avstudnitz). It’s a written blogpost with roughly the same contents of his MM14NL presentation.
- Alan Storm wrote a thorough starters article about getting started with Magento and Composer.
- The Pixafy team joined the Magento subreddit for an “ask-us-anything”-chat.
- Busy with importing group prices from CSVs? Atwix posted an useful code snippet, which can be used to build an extension upon.
- Previous week (German version) we covered the new “Magento Certified Solution Specialist” certification. More and more information is dripping in: Both Andreas and Atwix gave their feedback on it.
- In the Magento 1.9 introduced reponsive theme (RWD), developers quickly found jQuery (1.10.2) and usage of the elevateZoom and Cycle2-slider plugin; here’s an overview from the BelVG blog.
- The German community has been complaining a bit about the poor German locale in Magento 1.9 and the lack of integrating community effort. Piotr promised improvement. The community edition of the Magento 1.9.0.1 German locale is available at Magento Connect.
- Tim (@tim_bezhashvyly, we interviewed him) published his Meet Magento Italy slides about Magento front-end form validation.
- Recently surfaced, Mercator attempts to be a community-driven distribution of Magento 1.X. By neglecting backwards-compatibility and allowing core modification, it attempts to push more development to the 1.X branch of Magento. From what it looks like, it doesn’t have much support.
- Daniel Sloof (@daniel_sloof) teased with impressive Magento (1.9, demo data) performance on HHVM: sub-40ms load time.
- A different Daniel (@Flyingmana) released version 2.0 of the Magento-Composer-Installer
Magento 2
- 2.0.0.0-dev80 spends attention on the internal framework, JavaScript widgets and tax calculation issues again.
- 2.0.0.0-dev81 brings framework improvements in the form of more unit and functional tests. On top of that, the Magento_Catalog module now has a proper Service-Layer-API. Also a traditional long list of bug fixes.
- As always, the official changelog has in-depth information.
- Magento (represented by Ben Marks) is looking for feedback on the customer API. Be sure to get in touch with him if you want to have a say.
- You can’t blame Magento for not reaching out to its community lately: the Magento 2 engineering lead (@maksek_ua) is calling out to potential Magento 2 contributors and inviting people to the Magento, Inc office (Kiev) for a meet & greet.
- Alan Kent is still busy writing about Magento. In his latest post, he dives nose-deep into the Magento 2 Dependency Injection implementation.
- Timed coincidentally, we also wrote about Magento 2 Dependency Injection. Though probably not as thorough as Alan Kent’s version, hopefully someone can learn something from it.
Community
- The first Italian Meet Magento took place. For those wanting the news fresh from the oven, scoop through the #mm14it hash tag and the accompanying @MeetMagentoIT account.
- For now, we will have to do with a summary by Thomas Flech from aheadWorks. We will keep you posted.
- We interviewed Tim Bezhashvly regarding his “Harsh Truth About Magento Enterprise”-session during Meet Magento Germany.
- Due to problems with unexpected behavior, extension vendor AITOC decides to remove its proprietary rewrite system. This, after critique spawned on the Meet Magento Germany conference.
- Fabian (@fabian_ikono) wrote a how-to about organizing a Magento hackathon.
- The newly spawned Mage Monthly from Meanbee attempts to bring a monthly newsletter for Magento enthousiasts. The first edition has already been send out and they are actively looking for content-contributors.
- Magento has a new bugtracker which provides better and more transparent issue management. On top of that, integration with the internal eBay JIRA tracker has been improved to faster reflect on submitted issues.
- Alan Kent doesn’t only write about Magento 2. Recently he went into detail why eBay enterprise and Magento alignment makes sense. Interesting is the comment section, where WebShopApps outs its criticism towards this partnership.
- OroCRM got updated to version 1.2.0. The release announcement states that there is now support for bidirectional customer data synchronization with Magento. Basically, the ability to edit data in OroCRM and push it back to Magento.
- Last but not least: Brendan (@Falkowski) attempted to trade a GravityDept frontend audit plus implementation and trainng for a… motorcycle. Though he didn’t get the 1973 Moto Guzzi, everybody knows what GravityDept does, now. Smart (and funny) marketing.
That’s it for weeks 23 and 24. If you know German, don’t forget to check out the original “Magento-Neuigkeiten” as it contains some unique German content.
Hope to see you again for the next edition. Follow us on Twitter to stay up to date or let us know if you’ve got something we forgot.
We had a bit of misalignment with week numbers so we moved some of the earlier edition to this one. Apologies for the inconvenience.
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