#MagentoMonday Community Digest 2016.05.23

[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 2.1 is ready for testing!

In case you missed it, Magento CE 2.1 Release Candidate is available. Head over to Github and test it out, we'd love to hear your feedback.

Announcing Mage Roundtable

James Cowie & Allan MacGregor have created a new project called Mage Roundtable: "a casual gathering of developers discussing topics that Mage nerds care about." You can catch the first episode of the podcast as they broadcast live on YouTube from a Google Hangout On-Air this Wednesday: How to stay relevant as a Magento developer with Vinai Kopp and Ivan Chepurnyi. Be sure to check it out and let them know if you'd like to be a guest!

Here's what else has been happening since the last #MagentoMonday:

Podcasts

• MageTalk Episode 93 – “The Source of All Truth” (w/ Evan Petersen), by Phillip Jackson & Kalen Jordan (May 20)
• Mage2Katas 09. The Custom Config File Kata, by Vinai Kopp (May 19)

Articles

• Magento 2: Admin MVC/MVVM Endpoints, by Alan Storm (May 16)
• Magento 2 differences: filtering in the Admin grid, by Space48 (May 16)
• Custom File Uploads Files in Magento 2, by Andrew Smart (May 16)
• How do disable caching of custom block on a Magento 2 product view page?, by Firebear Team (May 17)
• Magento 2: Set a PHP umask, by Alan Storm (May 17)
• integer_net becomes a member of ExtDN, by Sonja Riesterer (May 17)
• Top 10 Tips When Launching Magento 2.0 Extensions: Over-Inform, by Magento (May 18)
• Quick Tip: How To Use Image, WYSWYG or any other non-standard field in Magento2 widget, by Milan Stojanov (May 18)
• Next big thing: Meet Magento World Conference – Connecting people all over the world!, by Meet Magento Association (May 18)
• Examples of Magento 2 Websites, by Paul Rogers (May 18)
• Observers in Magento (and when not to use them), by Andrew Smart (May 18)
• A Magento Project Close To My Heart: BHF, by Rebecca Troth (May 18)
• Magento2 2.0.6 (umask), by Damián Culotta (May 18)
• Functional Tests by Example for Magento2, by Dusan Lukic (May 19)
• Magento 2 — the beginning, the current state and what to expect in the future, by Vitaly Gonkov and Max Yekaterynenko (May 19)
• Meet Magento Association Interview Decathlon: Annemarie Hache, by Meet Magento Association (May 19)
• Defining the ACL of our modules in Magento2, by Damián Culotta (May 20)
• Max Pronko Talks About Magento 1, Developing Magento 2 And Working With The Magento Community, by Wajid Hussain (May 20)
• Magento 1 - Extending Core JavaScript with Prototype, by Adam Moss (May 20)
• Magento 2 Community Project: Moving from Less to Sass, by Alan Kent (May 21)
• SNOW.DOG leads community frontend project with Magento, by Marta Molińska (May 22)
• New Database Connection in Magento 2, by Max Pronko (May 22)
• Creating EAV Product Attributes in Magento 2 Programmatically, by Andrew Smart (May 22)
• How to Modify Content of a Product Page Based on Selected Swatches, by Cezary Żegleń (May 23)

Recent Events

• #MM16NL: another successful edition, by Nadja van Dijk (May 18)
• Meet Magento Netherlands 2016, by Maria Zayac (May 20)
• Magento Developers Paradise 2016 Review, by Simon Sprankel (May 23)

Upcoming Events

• Magento May Meetup: Imagine Recap and Magento 2 in New York, NY on May 24th.
• The new Magento Marketplace, and Domain Driven Design in London, UK on May 25th.
• Imagine 2016 Recap and Magento Enterprise Cloud Edition! in Delray Beach, FL on May 26th.
• Magento Imagine Conference Recap + Magento Q&A in Atlanta, GA on June 2nd.
• Multichannel selling / Google Adwords in Magento in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK on June 16th.
• MUG073: XML layouts en PHTML templates in 's-Hertogenb­osch, NL on June 16th.
• Explore the Wonderful World of Magento in Chennai, IN on June 17th.
• MagentoLive UK in London, UK on June 20-21st.
• Magento 2 Development Training in Baarn, NL on June 22nd.
• An Angular 2 storefront app for headless Magento 2
 in Auckland, NZ on June 22nd.
• Magento-Stammtisch Aachen in Aachen, DE on June 28th.
• NomadMage: Writing Testable Code in Magento 1 and 2 online on July 27th.
• 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 our Meetup page for a list of Magento Meetups near you. 

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