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Here’s the next update with new, hopefully interesting, questions and answers on StackExchange.

If you are wondering wether to import classes with “use” or use the fully qualified class name, read Magento 2: use statement versus direct class path?
What happened to the customer_logged_in and customer_logged_out layout handles in Magento 2? Magento2. Layout Handle customer_logged_in
If you want to set up a password protected staging system with Varnish, here you go: Setting up Magento Staging Environment with Restricted Access
My question on translation scopes in Magento 2 finally received an answer with a somewhat satisfying solution for translation conflicts: How does translation scope work in Magento 2?
A quickie: The best way to react on changed configuration values in Magento 1: How to detect changed fields only in admin section?

After a day of Magento 2 develoment with JavaScript, I shared the frustrating summary on Twitter, which attracted some attention:

Today's Magento 2 workshop: 3h installing, 1h explain DI, plugins & Co, 2h coding & debugging, 2h waiting for static content to be deployed

— Fabian Schmengler (@fschmengler) 18. März 2016

Looks like I am not alone with this experience but it’s not really how it is supposed to be. This lead me to the question Which compilation commands are needed in developer mode and when?
There seems to be a bug in certain Magento versions with order reports and timezones but I could not quite pin it down yet: Magento Reporting – Is it bucketing by UTC?

Here’s the next update with new, hopefully interesting, questions and answers on StackExchange.

Marius attended my question about generated PHTML files in Magento 2 and also found out when they are used: When and how are phtml templates generated in view_pre geprocessed?
I found a bug in the JavaScript function Mage.Cookies.clear(). It looks like it never worked, and actually it is not even used in the core. Here I describe the fix: Mage.Cookies.clear() not working
In How to limit characters in system.xml for textarea in magento I show how easy validation of inputs in the Magento configuration is possible (Spoiler: You don’t need jQuery).
There is an interesting optimization opportunity if you don’t need URL rewrites for products: How do I get Magento to always give the /catalog/product/view/id/ style url for products?
A problem that other Magento users who try to use Varnish with HTTPS might know as well: https redirection loop even with X-Forwarded-Proto

I asked myself if it makes sense as an extension developer to add the whole Magento repository as dev-requirement: Magento 2 as composer dev requirement for extensions – the answer is as often “it depends”. It was already interesting to get insights from companies like Aheadworks and Fooman.
There is still no answer to How does translation scope work in Magento 2? and I fear it’s because it cannot be answered. But to be sure, I offered a bounty: +50

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