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We’re excited to announce that we are a Gold Sponsor at Paypal X Innovate Developer Conference in San Francisco October 26-27 and we’d love for you to stop by our booth.

The San Francisco developer conference features Paypal’s first open global payments platform and is intended to make great changes in the future of money. October 26th and 27th in San Francisco, Paypal will host the conference and has brought on over 60 sponsors and their exhibits, 40 technical sessions, 30 demonstrations (paired with code samples) and a keynote from open source thought leader, Tim O’Reilly, Paypal President Scott Thompson as well as a talk from our own Roy Rubin.

Don’t miss Magento CEO Roy Rubin and Vice President, PayPal Platform and Emerging Technology Osama Bedier’s presentation “Magento, the eCommerce Platform for Innovation on X.”

Magento is pleased to be a part of such a great event this year and looks forward to networking, learning and sharing. We hope our ecosystem of developers, merchants, and partners will be able to attend and stop by our booth to say hello!

Register today!

See who’s attending the Paypal X Innovate event by visiting their Facebook profile and get up-to-date information on the event on their Twitter profile.

We are excited to announce that we have settled in our new headquarters! Come be the first to check out the new Magento office and join other Magento developers for an evening of networking, snacks and a talk on “Methods and Best Practices for High Performance eCommerce” by Lead Architect, Dmitriy Soroka.


We are excited to give you the insider tips and tricks for optimizing your store! The event will be held on Thursday, September 16 from 7-9 pm at the Culver City headquarters.

For location information, check out the Meetup event page. Spots for this event are limited so be sure to register!

As some community members reported there was a problem with one of the PEAR packages published for the 1.4.1.1 release.

The problem is fixed on our PEAR channels. But if you already downloaded or upgraded your installation and are experiencing the issue you will need to apply the following patch:

Click on your desired format to download: patch | zip | tar.gz

We are happy to announce the availability of Magento Preview Version 1.4.2.0-beta1 for download.

As this is a preview version it is NOT recommended in any way to be used in a production environment (more information about preview releases and the new community edition release process can be found in this blog post). This release is NOT available for upgrade through Magento Connect Manager and is only available on our download page.

This release includes the new Magento Connect Manager (MCM) and allows the community to start testing the new MCM and Magento Connect 2.
To see how to work with new MCM please visit our release notes page. Diff files are available here.

Please report all issues with this release in the bug tracker.

Bargento 4 was a total success! We welcomed 624 people of 17 different nationalities at the CAP 15 conference hall. Aside from the beautiful view of the Parisian skyline, Bargento 4 was the ideal place for learning more about the developments and trends in the market while also learning about Magento best practices and solution partners.

The conference, held between two rooms- one for English and one for French- offered a diverse and equally beneficial platform for those looking to get the most out of their affiliation with Magento.

The biggest Magento event world-wide, hosted by NBS System and Fragento, was pleased to present Magento’s own Roy Rubin (CEO), Yoav Kutner (CTO), Amit Shah (VP Sales) and Bob Schwartz (President) as well as to provide a stage for some exciting new additions to Paypal.

Many are excited to hear that Bargento 5 has already been scheduled!
Save the date! Bargento 5 is scheduled for November 8, 2010 in France and November 11, 2010 in Spain!

To hear what others thought about Bargento 4, check out the video recap with French and English subtitles!

Operating in the UK, Ireland, Germany and France, Watco has provided businesses with building maintenance, floor coatings and anti-slip floor grip for 83 years. In January 2010, Crimsonwing implemented the Magento Enterprise edition to improve customer experience and restructure internal processes. 

In just 6 weeks, Magento and Crimsonwing implemented a new online sales channel for Watco that increased sales and supported their marketing efforts.

Read more about what we did in our case study.

The Magento Developers Paradise is only 92 days away- but there are only 52 days left to register! Register now to ensure you have the chance to hear from a lineup of valuable speakers and get the most out of Magento.

Be sure to catch Ashley Schroder on Day One at 3pm with a talk on the top tips for developing a successful Magento extension. Ashley, the head software engineer at World Wide Access, will be giving you his tips on advanced Magento extension features. To read more about Ashley, visit his website.

Day Two begins, after breakfast, with John Lunn’s talk on PayPal’s wallet in the cloud. John’s 15+ years of experience building payment and fraud systems online has moved him into new developer network for PayPalX in the European Union. We look forward to hearing what he has to say about the future of commerce and the potential to shop without carrying our wallets.

At 11am, just after John’s talk, Gabriel Bouhatous, Co-founder and President of the Magento Academy, will be speaking on how to improve the quality of code, decrease time spent debugging and on the different types of development tools available.

Followed by Gabriel, Branko Ajzele will begin his talk at Noon. It will encompass how to effectively share Magento knowledge with new developers. Branko, the Senior Developer Inchoo, is an expert with systems like Zend Framework, Doctrine ORM and ...you guessed it- Magento!

The following, and final day, the Magento Developers Paradise closing keynote is preceded by NBS System leader of Magento managed hosting in France, Philippe Humeau, who will be discussing the performance tweaks and tips to make Magento “run like an antelope.” Don’t miss out on the valuable information about caching, settings and optimizing infrastructure capacity.

We look forward to seeing you there and don’t forget to save the dates!

Conference Registration July 1-August 30, 2010—€750,00
Late Registrations after September 1 (if space allows)—€950,00

Mark your calendars! Wednesday, July 28th at 6:30pm, Pod1 will be hosting a Magento Developers get-together at their London office.

The get-together will feature talks and discussions with a short Q&A between each. As well as learning all about the best practices of development and the differences between Magento editions, the get-together will be a great chance to network with others in the space.

The Pod1 offices are located at Westbourne Park, London W10. If you’re interested in attending or want to suggest a topic for discussion, email magento-meetup@pod1.com