#MagentoMonday Community Digest 2016.02.08

[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.

Magento Masters

In case you missed it, last week at MagentoLive France, our CEO Mark Lavelle announced the community initiative I've been developing over the past few months. I'm so excited to finally share Magento Masters with you to recognize our top individual contributors! You can read more on Magento Masters in our announcement.

Blogs

• Windows + Docker + LiveReload + Gulp + Magento 2 (Quick Note), by Alan Kent (February 1)

• Magento QA Best Practices, by Sivaranjani (February 1)
• Noodlings on Docker for Development in Magento 2 (Quick Note), by Alan Kent (February 1)
• Developers Paradise 2016: Breaking Magento 2 Barriers, by Natalie Pavlovskaya (February 1)
• Magento 2 Marketplace Upload Validation Tool (Quick Note), by Alan Kent (February 1)
• Magento’s transactional eMails do-s and don’t-s, by Adrian Bece (February 2)
• How to Manage Order Status in Magento 2.0, by Andrey Dubina (February 2)
• Magento 2 DIY – New Magento 2 Book By Firebear Studio, by Firebear Team (February 2)
• Design Patterns for Framework Agnostic Extensions/Plugins, by Fabian Schmengler (February 2)
• Magento 2 and RequireJS, by Alan Storm (February 2)
• Magento 2 Templates And Themes, by Firebear Team (February 3)
• How to add an external javascript/css file to Magento?, by Tomas Novoselic (February 3)
• The Ultimate Magento 2 Developer’s Resource List (docs, tools, books, courses…), by Firebear Team (February 3)
• Magento Less/CSS/UI Docs, by Alan Storm (February 3)
• Using Magento 2 with Laravel Homestead, by Alan Storm (February 3)
• Magestead - A Vagrant LEMP Stack for Magento Developers, by Alan Storm (February 3)
• How to Use a Default Cache in Magento 2.0, by Andrei Danilchyk (February 4)
• Interactive Bash script for managing themes in Magento 2, by Danijel Vrgoc (February 4)
• Mergear, comprimir y versionar JS y CSS en Magento2, by Damián Culotta (February 4)
• Quick Note on “already exists in context object” Errors, by Alan Storm (February 4)
• Magento 1 and Magento 2: Using Dependency Injection, by Fabian Schmengler (February 4)
• David Manners: Magento 2.0: Migration durchaus möglich…, by Dietmar Hölscher (February 5)
• What Great Magento Agencies Know & Do, by Selvan Dinakaran (February 5)
• My talks from 2015 on Magento, by James Cowie (February 5)
• Magento 2: Reseting your password & logging into the admin, by Rebecca Troth (February 5)
• Creating a Frontend Controller in Magento2, by Damián Culotta (February 6)
• Magento 2 and the Less CSS Preprocessor, by Alan Storm (February 6)
• How to use PHPSpec and Magento 2 a quick start, by James Cowie (February 6)
• Getting started with a Magento 2 module, by James Cowie (February 6)
• Week #1: Decisions, Merchant, Story begins, by Max Pronko (February 6)
• Magento 2: Introducing The New Admin, by Rebecca Troth (February 6)
• How to create configurable products in Magento2, by Damián Culotta (February 7)
• Load modules and themes from src in Magento 2, by James Cowie (February 7)
• Create a block and a template in Magento2, by Damián Culotta (February 8)
• Configurable Swatches in Magento2, by Damián Culotta (February 8)
• State of Magento Solution Specialist Certification – January 2016, by Aron Stanic (February 8)

Podcasts & Videos

During his talk at #MageTitansIT, Vinai Kopp announced a brand new project: Mage2Katas. Mage2Katas are screencasts of TDD practice sessions for Magento 2 development and you can catch the first two here:

• 01 The Module Skeleton Kata
• 02 The Plugin Config Kata

Also, don't forget to check out the latest from MageEngage and MageTalk:

• MageEngage Episode 21 - Cos-play photography with Alessandro, by David Manners (February 4)
• MageTalk Episode 78 – In the Same Breathable Air, by Phillip Jackson & Kalen Jordan (February 7)

Events

• Last week I attended MagentoLive France and MageTitans Italia, both of which were fantastic events and a great chance to connect with the community. I believe there will be recorded video for both, but in the meantime you can check out the slides from MageTitans Italia.
• Ben Marks was at SunshinePHP last week, speaking on Magento 2 Modules are Easy!
• Slides are up for the recent Magento 2 Seminar in The Netherlands.
• We 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. 
• LimeSoda is organizing 15. Magento Stammtisch Wien on February 24th.
• MageUnconference is coming up March 12th-13th in Berlin.

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!