First Magento 2 Developer Event (DevParadise 2015 Recap)

I just got back from my favorite developer and sports event of the year. This was already the 4th winter edition of Magento Developers Paradise, which took place from January 11 through 14 in Kaprun, Austria, just one hour from the city of Mozart, Salzburg. I arrived already 2 days before the official event to get some extra skiing time, but the weather on Saturday and Sunday was pretty rough as you can see on this video.

On Freeride Monday my buddy Christian Philipp and I experienced the fascination of freeriding with technique and safety tips from Michi Hartweger. Every year there might be five days with perfect freeriding conditions and Michi said that this might have been one of them. The avalanche danger level on that day was 4 which is rather dangerous, but Michi made sure we were on the safe side.

On Monday and Tuesday evening the conference part took place from 8 pm to 11 pm. Although there were some pre-defined talks, we also had a couple of very interesting Barcamp style presentations.

Magento Developer Presentations on Monday

• Standard-like XML Import – Nikolai Krambrock, code4business (Germany)
• Is Magento 2.0 really mobile ready? – Ray Bogman, SupportDesk (Netherlands)
• Modern hosting approaches – Gruus van Woerkom, Byte Internet (Netherlands) and Jan, SysEleven (Germany)

Magento Developer Presentations on Tuesday

• Chances of changes in Magento 2.0 extension development – Gerhard Fobe, nr-apps.com (Germany)
• Data migration between Magento 1 and Magento 2, Rian Orie, Elastomatic (Netherlands)
• The ideal DTAP (Development – Testing – Acceptance – Production) setup for Magento deployment – Wouter den Otter, SupportDesk (Netherlands)
• Magento 2 theme changes as of 2.0– Jikke Broxterman, Jixit (Netherlands)

At the end of the 2nd evening Thomas Fleck announced the Meet Magento Association.

@fendi911 announcing the Meet #Magento Association – more info shortly on http://t.co/CJ5J6MAmJd #DevParadise pic.twitter.com/V7AKmxmI10

— Nick Weisser (@nickweisser) January 13, 2015

What this association is about you will learn very shortly on meet-magento.com. It was yet another inspiring Meet Magento event, check out the pictures on the official Meet Magento Flickr site. Thanks to Tobias Kämpfe and the rest of the Meet Magento crew for organizing. You guys do an amazing job – as always!

Christian also wrote a recap of the event in German and you also might want to check out the #DevParadise tweets. If I have forgotten to mention anything else worth mentioning or you have blogged about the event yourself, please leave a comment.