#MagentoMonday Community Digest 2016.01.25

[sherrie]

Happy #MagentoMonday! 

If you're new to our forums, welcome! Take a look around, check out our guidelines, and be sure to reach out to me or any of our awesome moderators if you have any questions.

On the "Road"

With all the events coming up, our team is headed out on the road again. I'm really excited to be heading to Paris for MagentoLive France and Milan for MageTitans Italy. Will I see you there? 

Community Blogs & Videos

Thank you so much to everyone who's spent time on content for the community this week! 

• MageTalk Episode 76 – A Level We Can All Understand, by Kalen Jordan & Phillip Jackson (January 18)
• Step by step migration to Magento 2, by Jisse Reitsma (January 18)
• Retail Trends 2016: Death Knell for Brick and Mortar, While Mobile Takes Off, by Peter Sheldon (January 18)
• SOL: Magento 2.0 is a Perfect Fit, by Magento (January 18)
• How To Override a Controller In Magento 2?, by Banupriya Balasubramania (January 19)
• Thou Shalt Not Do Inserts in a Foreach … Unless You Know The Trick, by Ivan Curdinjakovic (January 19)
• Magento 2.0.1 Security Update, by Piotr Kaminski (January 20)
• SUPEE-7405, by Piotr Kaminski (January 20)
• New Magento 2.0 Resources and Support for PHP7, by Magento (January 20)
• Custom Options Import in Magento 2.0, by Aleksander Tretjak (January 20)
• Smart Sampling for Charlotte Tilbury, by Martha Hannis (January 20)
• Observers in Magento 2, by Ryan Street (January 20)
• Magento 2 Wallpapers, by Katarina Dijakovic (January 21)
• Plugins in Magento 2, Ryan Street (January 21)
• Magento Security Patch SUPEE-7405 Overview, by Yaroslav Rogoza (January 21)
  
• Magento 2: Adding Frontend Asset Files Programmatically, by Alan Storm (January 21)
• It’s Time to Move to Magento 2, by Miguel Balparda (January 21)
• Under the Hood of Bret Williams, by Ashley Overton (January 21)
• Preferences in Magento 2, by Ryan Street (January 22)
• How to Add a Custom Variable in Magento 2, by Andrey Dubina (January 25)
• Magento 2 Payment Capture Partial Request, by Max Pronko (January 25)

Hackathon

This past weekend, several Magento User Groups in The Netherlands, along with and FireGento Paderborn, organized a Magento 2 Hackathon including a full day of hands on programming in Magento 2 and talks/seminars. Here's a few projects from the event:

• Team Arjen Sure You Live There? worked on address validation in Magento 2
• Team Jereon The Right Track Finally worked on the Grid Configuration Share
• The Netherdutch Allblackfires team worked on a blackfire.io integration for Magento 2
• The Jaapsters team were working on a port of an Order Item Comments module
• The Paderborn team worked on FastSimpleImport for Magento 2

Events

• We now have a forum group dedicated to Imagine. Introduce yourself to other attendees, make your #RoadtoImagine plans and see what other meetups the community is organizing around the conference. 

• Headed to MagentoLive France? I'd love to have you introduce yourself here.

• LimeSoda is organizing 15. Magento Stammtisch Wien on February 24th.

For a full list of upcoming events, be sure to check out our Event Calendar, as well as browsing magento.meetup.com for a list of meetups near you. 

Did I miss anything? Private message me here or reach out on Twitter at @sherrierohde!