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Magento News for the weeks 37 & 38

magento news weeks 37 and 38- 2014

In this bi-weekly round-up a lot of new extensions and updates, Meet Magento New York kicking off and four new Magento 2 code drops; here’s what the weeks 37 and 38 had in store.

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  • Branko Ajzele wrote about using the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack for managing Magento logs.
  • Erfan Imani published an article regarding block caching and how to programmatically invalidate or refresh cache items when system configuration of your module gets changed. Useful information.
  • In part 4 of the Magento Fireside Chat about Magento testing, David Robinson walks us through the Menta Selenium Testing Framework for automated screenshots and Bastian Ike talks about Jenkins’ multi-configuration job “to test Magento modules with multiple Magento versions”.
  • Peter Jaap got the hang of developing addons for n98-magerun and released a bunch of enhancing commands. Here’s the full list.
  • In related news, Wojtek Naruniec listed his 10 favorite n98-magerun commands.
  • For those using the Magento RWD theme, Eric Wiese has a reference implementation for displaying high resolution product images on the product detail and list pages using Picturefill.
  • Aligent has visualised the order state flow of Magento for which it received a lot of praise from the community.
  • Yaroslav Rogoza from Atwix updated his Magento PhpStorm File Templates for quickly generating dummies of repetitive files, like [cci]adminhtml.xml[/cci] and [cci]system.xml[/cci].
  • Ho_Import got updated to version 1.4 and quickly thereafter to version 1.5.
  • Marius released updates for his Switcher extension and is currently at version 1.1.0. The extension helps with changing the configurable products dropdowns to text, image or fixed color labels.
  • Elastera released the EnterprisePageCacheSSL extension for making the Full Page Caching of Magento Enterprise work under HTTPS/SSL.
  • After a remark of Rico Neitzel, Creare got to work and open sourced the CreareSEO extension.
  • We are uncertain whether we would install it, but Tanel Raja updated “phpMyAdmin as a Magento Extension” to version 0.1.4. It adds phpMyAdmin to the Magento backend and automatically configures it with the database Magento is currently connected with.
  • More database news: Magento released version 1.2 of the Database Repair Tool. It is available on the download page.

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Community

Hopefully we didn’t miss anything as a lot seems to have happened the past two weeks. In the next edition we will hopefully, among others, give you a good impression of what happened at Meet Magento New York. Last but not least: a shout-out to Matthias Zeis’ Magento-Neuigkeiten which our round-ups are based on. See you next time.

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