Magento News for the weeks 43 & 44

These two weeks three Magento conferences passed by, possibly the first website built on top of Magento 2 spotted and Magento 3 has already been announced.

Magento

• Alan Kent kicked off his “Magento on Docker” project and opened an accompanying repository.
• Awtix released a shell script which helps with fixing an issue in which Magento is still storing attribute values when the affected attribute is removed from the attribute set.
• In the previous edition we covered the security “flaw” in the Magmi import tool. Seb, developer of Magmi, wrote about his vision on the matter. Earlier, Magmi 0.7.2 got released which disables all upload functionality of the web interface.
• EW_UntranslatedStrings is an extension by Classy Llama whichs logs strings yet to be translated. They published a post covering the development.
• Brank Ajzele started writing about “Performance efficient and lightweight Magento-Elasticsearch integration” which is a bit of a development log for Foggyline_Elastic.
• Damian found a weakness in Magento installations with a lot of storeviews which makes it easy targets for DDoS-attacks. For more info you should get in touch with him.
• Falkowski warns that Chrome will give a “mixed content warning” unless the form action of the newsletter subscription is HTTPS.
• The b-responsive skeleton Bootstrap theme for Magento got updated to version 1.2.1.
• Elgentos open-sourced their table rates generator.
• In a recent Magento 2 webinar, Magento announced that the Magento Performance Toolkit will also be available for 1.X EE in a closed beta program. The beta is probably over as it can now be found on Github.
• Colin published a “Stampede-resistant Config Cache” (a modified [cci]Mage_Core_Model_Config[/cci]) which should reduce the amount of cache-misses.
• Vinai published a gist with his thoughts on Magento setup scripts.
• In a related gist, Alistair Stead pointed out how to disable automatic execution of modules their update scripts. You can then manually run setup scripts. This configuration option is available since Magento CE 1.6.
• Aligent published an updated version of their Order State Diagram.

Magento 2

• 0.1.0-alpha101 started adding documentation to individual modules, made improvements to the search module, includes performance improvements and various bug fixes.
• 0.1.0-alpha102 has bug fixes, framework improvements and splits responsibility of [cci]View\Layout[/cci] in three classes.
• Alan Kent published his thoughts on the Magento 2 installation process and which of the many options to pick.
• We published our thoughts on Magento 2 its open source nature and the lack of proper Github usage.
• Alan also wrote a post with more information about the new service layer and the related service contracts. The post details the various service contract patterns used.
• A discussion on Twitter revealed that the EAV cache type is a bit broken lately. To address the issue, Marko created an issue in the Magento 2 tracker and quickly got confirmation that it is indeed broken.
• In the same discussion, Matthias asked Ben about what exactly the “dev platform” Magento 2 release means and got as answer that it is “all of the php framework aspects without ecommerce”.
• For anyone looking to quickly bootstrap the Magento 2 code base, this Magento SE question by Marius might be of help.
• Apparently, the first website built on top of Magento 2 has already surfaced.

Community

• magestackday now has a third physical location. If your weekend of 7 to 8 November isn’t already booked, consider signing up.
• With MageHero, Kalen Jordan is building a list of Magento developers. It is stull under heavy development and what exactly it becomes is still unclear. For more information, refer to the the readme on Github.
• Amasty interviewed well-known Magento developers in a new series of articles on Magento development education.
• MagentoLive Germany happened on the 13th and 14th of October. No recaps in English (yet?), but if you scroll down a bit on Patrick Lobacher his recap (in German), you should get a good overview of all the presentations and videos. To get an impression of what it was like, there are lots of photos.
• Meet Magento CH took place on the 24th of October. There is a recap by Openstream, a photo-oriented recap by Thomas Elminger and a really polished video summary.
• Rumoured during MM14CH: the new Magento forums might be available by the end of 2014.
• After Meet Magento CH, the “second Swiss Magento Hackathon” started and resulted in the following projects:
  • FireGento_FlexCms
  • Hackathon_Datadog
  • Hackathon_IndexerStats
  • Hackathon_Predictionio
• MageTitans took place on the first of November. Some slides which have surfaced:
  • Vinai Kopp with “The beautiful Magento Module“
  • Alistair Stead with “Scalable and Highly Availabe Data in Magento“
  • Tom Robertshaw with “Building Responsive Themes as Frontend Engineers“
  • Yousef Cisco with “Extending Magento with Backbone.js“
  • Alistair Stead with “Scaling Data in Magento“
• In a “Card Sort” experiment launched by Magento Commerce Experience Research Labs, merchants were invited to help improve Connect.
• Magento is looking for input on the tracks and sessions of Magento Imagine. Here’s the survey.
• The 22nd and 23th of November TechDivision is planning a Hackathon in Munich. Registration is free.
• Magento Developer Paradise will take place from January 11th to January 14th 2015 in Kaprun.

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