#MagentoMonday Community Digest 2016.04.25

[sherrie]

Happy #MagentoMonday! 

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The past two weeks I focused on Imagine 2016 with these digests both with #preimagine events and your recaps, but this week we are back to "normal" ... I'll do my best to catch you all up.

Podcasts

• MageTalk Episode 87 – “What Does Babyface David Have to Say?” (feat Ryan Atkins), by Phillip Jackson & Kalen Jordan (April 7)
• MageTalk Episode 88 – That Badonkadonk Booty Tho, by Phillip Jackson & Kalen Jordan (April 8)
• MageTalk Episode 89 – Is Magento 2 too “Enterprisey”? (feat. Paul Boisvert and Alan Kent), by Phillip Jackson & Kalen Jordan (April 11)
• Mage2Katas 07. The Action Controller Integration Test Kata, by Vinai Kopp (April 18)
• MageTalk Episode 90 – That one with Alan Storm (feat. Alan Storm, duh), by Phillip Jackson & Kalen Jordan (April 21)

Blogs

• Filtering Magento Collections: addFilter() vs. addFieldToFilter(), by Fabian Schmengler (April 5)
• 8 Irresistible Reasons To Migrate To Magento 2, by Ravikumar Goli (April 6)
• How to Hide a Field on a Product Edit Page in Magento Backend Using Observer, by Aleksei Grigorenko (April 8)
• Magento 2: Understanding Integration API Users, by Alan Storm (April 8)
• An Interesting Challenge for folks Using Magento 1 and PHP 7, by Alan Storm (April 9)

• The perfect Magento 2 setup for development, by Anna Völkl (April 9)

• The week on StackExchange #14 / 2016, by Fabian Schmengler (April 11)
• How To Create Custom Theme In Magento 2 (Part -1), by Wajid Hussain (April 11)
• Magento 2: Shared Instances and Dependency Injection, by Alan Storm (April 11)
• Magento 2: Fixing Area code Not Set Exceptions, by Alan Storm (April 11)
• 10 ideas for promotions & coupons in Magento, by Dave Redfern (April 11)
• Magento 2: Understanding Object Repositories, by Alan Storm (April 13)
• Magento 1 and Magento 2: Leveraging PSR Interfaces, by Fabian Schmengler (April 14)
• When can you deliver? (FedEx), by Davor Simek (April 14)
• Secure your Nginx for Magento, by Igor Furseev (April 15)
• Magento 2 Marketplace: Cron and Hidden Files, by Alan Storm (April 15)
• Why I promote testing, by Vinai Kopp (April 15)
• How to Use RabbitMQ Queue in Extensions For Magento 2.0 EE, by Artsem Miklashevich (April 18)
• Finalize Custom Theme In Magento 2, by Wajid Hussain (April 18)
• Magento 2: Composer, Marketplace, and Satis Mirrors, by Alan Storm (April 18)
• Challenges of a Full Packagist Mirror for Magento 2, by Alan Storm (April 18)
• MageScotch -- A Magento 1 and Magento 2 Vagrant box, by Alan Storm (April 18)
• 4 Steps to Decide on Your Next Magento 2.0 Extension, by Andrey Dubina (April 19)
• Share the Bananas!, by Gabrielle Iskandar (April 20)
• Magento 2: Composer Plugins, by Alan Storm (April 20)
• The Power of Magento 2 Rich Snippets, by Natalie Pavlovskaya (April 21)
• 100 days on Magento StackExchange, by Raphaël Petrini (April 21)
• Magento 1 and Magento 2: Iterating Iterators, by Fabian Schmengler (April 21)
• If the Magento community was a song, by Michael Türk (April 21)
• Philwinkle_Fixerio for Magento 2!, by Phillip Jackson (April 21)
• Magento 2: Composer and Components, by Alan Storm (April 22)
• Vagrant vs Docker for Development?, by Alan Kent (April 22)
• Magento 2: How to Apply FilterGroups and Filters, by Alan Storm (April 24)
• nexcess/magento-alarmbell, by Alan Storm (April 24)
• Improving the usability of the Magento checkout process, by Dave Redfern (April 25)

Interviews

• Magento Ace Michael Türk Says, “The Best Preparation For The Certifications Comes With Everyday Deve..., by Wajid Hussain (April 5)
• Aheadworks Product Owner Stanislav Golodov: “Often, a Challenge Requires Thinking Out of the Box”, by Aheadworks (April 6)
• Raphaël Petrini Shares His Thoughts About Magento Module Development, Magento 2 And Maintaining A Wo..., by Fayyaz Khattak (April 12)
• Magento Certified Developer, Dusan Lukic, Talks About Working With Magento And Staying Active In Mag..., by Wajid Hussain (April 19)
• Peter Jaap Blaakmeer Talks About His Career, Developers Paradise And Magento Development, by Fayyaz Khattak (April 25)

Recent Events

• Meet Magento Czech Republic 2016, by Viacheslav Kravchuk (April 5)
• We enjoyed MM16CZ in Prague – here’s why, by Ivan Miskic (April 8)
• Imagine 2016: Community Highlights, by MageCloud (April 12)
• Magento Cloud Edition Announcement and Technical Details, by Joshua Warren (April 12)
• Le Creuset Receives Best Web Design Award at Imagine 2016, by Elliot Volkman (April 15)
• Magento Imagine 2016 Recap, by Brian Lange (April 19)
• Magento Imagine 2016 Recap, by Jeff Finkelstein (April 19)
• Sweet Tooth’s Magento Imagine 2016 Recap, by Steve Deckert (April 20)
• Magento Imagine 2016 - Key Highlights, by Ian Cassidy (April 20)
• Reflections on an Epic Journey, by Steve Deckert, Brendan Falkowski, Bret Rasmussen & Kuba Zwolinski (April 21)
• Reflections on Magento Imagine 2016 from a 6-Time Imagine Attendee, by Ryan Thompson (April 22)
• Magento Imagine 2016: Magento is stronger than ever, by Jenny Lambourne (April 22)
• Let’s imagine SNOW.DOG in Vegas, by Marta Molińska (April 22)
• “We Are Magento” Imagine 2016 Recap, by Vanja Bunjevac (April 22)
• Blue Acorn Receives Spirit of Excellence Award at Magento Imagine, by Elliot Volkman (April 22)
• Magento Imagine 2016, by Caitlin (April 22)
• Magento Inc – Time to Trust, by Karen Baker (April 23)
• Magento Enterprise Cloud Edition: What, why, and when, by Jenny Lambourne (April 25)
• Magento Imagine 2016 Infographic, by Viacheslav Kravchuk (April 25)

Upcoming Events

• Announcing The First Meet Magento Serbia, by Milan Stojanov (April 12)
• Post Magento Imagine Overview and Magento 2 meetup in Dallas on May 5th.
• MageTitans Mini in Manchester on May 5th.
• Magento 2.0 Meet-Up & Dinner in Munich on May 12th.
• Do you organize a Magento meetup? Join our Meetup Organizers group here on the forums!

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!