Magento News for the weeks 51 & 52

The weeks 51 & 52 were marked by the release of the Magento 2 Developer Beta and people writing about, developing on and playing with it.

Magento

• Magento 1.X stood in the shadow of its newborn brother this week. Most folks went on to have a play with the Magento 2 Developer Beta release.
• MageWorx reviewed the 6 most popular Magento SEO extensions to determine which one offers the broadest future set. Even though they also include their own extension, it’s not that much of an advertorial.
• Meanbee wrote about the RequestAutocomplete API and how it can be used to optimize the Magento checkout process.
• Fabian published a code snippet which can be used to export Magento configuration data to an XML file.
• n98-magerun: Yireo released an addon for managing admin roles and the n98-magerun blog covered a bunch of n98-magerun addons by Peter Jaap.

Magento 2

• The Magento 2 Developer Beta has begun. If you have no idea what is going on, Ben Marks published a blog post with detailed information.
• The Developer Beta release was accompanied by a webinar of which we have prepared a summary. The recording is also available.
• If you have trouble installing Magento 2, we have updated our guide on installing Magento 2 with Composerinstalling Magento 2 with Composer.
• There is also an installation guide on the Amasty blog.
• Alan Kent is doing a great job regarding the Magento 2 PR. He wrote about Composer integration, the new Github approach, the new developer documentation and how virtualization can improve the installation process.
• On virtualization: we hosted Hadrien Collongues which explained how to install Magento 2 in 5 minutes with Docker.
• If you want to contribute to Magento 2, Ben has a blog post to get you going.
• n98-magerun2 is under heavy development. The first plan is to port all commands from n98-magerun; latest statistics show that’s done for 14%.
• Branko Ajzele shared some code to get started with Magento 2 shell script development.
• Ash Smith wrote about creating a Hello World module in Magento 2.

Community

• Final call: if the goals for the Mage Unconference aren’t met in three days from now, the event will be canceled. Get your ticket if you haven’t already.
• Some people let the whole Magento-meta-jokes slip a bit too far!
• MageHero, a Magento developer listing, seems to be dying down. Great initiative so hopefully it gets steered in a good direction one day or later.
• …and that’s about it?! Full stomachs and family gatherings are to blame.

Those who master German, don’t forget to check out Matthias Zeis’ (he got interviewed recently) Magento-Neuigkeiten which our round-ups are based on. If we missed a module release, made a mistake or you want to say hello, let us know on Twitter, in the comments below or send us an email. Faded header image background by Whiteghost.ink / CC BY-SA 3.0