Episode 1! The MVP retreat always triggers lots of coding, sharing and blog posts.
What was new in the SDL Web community last week?

Blogs and articles
First, the MVP related posts.

“SDL Web MVP Retreat in Portugal – Oct 2017”
Pankaj gives a pretty detailed day to day overview of the MVP retreat in Portugal.
Pankaj Gaur: https://pankajgaur83.wordpress.com/2017/10/11/sdl-web-mvp-retreat-in-portugal/

“SDL Tridion MVP 2017 Retreat Projects”    
What is the MVP retreat anyway? Alvin explains and shows what projects were started this year.
Alvin Reyes: https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/tridion/b/blog-posts/posts/sdl-web-tridion-mvp-2017-retreat-posts-and-topics

“SDL Web MVP Retreat 2017: Day 1” & “SDL Web MVP Retreat 2017: Day 2”
Chis talks about MVP events, presentations and projects.
Chris Morgan: http://www.mrgn.co/2017/10/06/sdl-web-mvp-retreat-2017-day-1/
and http://www.mrgn.co/2017/10/09/sdl-web-mvp-retreat-2017-day-2/ 

“TSONp: Tridion, Surfers, Ourém, NPM, pork”
Frank also lively describes the retreat in general and one interesting project in particular: DXAJS.
Frank Taylor: http://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2017/10/09/tsonp_tridion-surfers-ourem-npm-pork-mvp-retreat-2017/ 

“Introducing DXAJS”
More about that project: DXAJS!
Frank Taylor: http://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2017/10/13/introducing-dxajs/ 

“Use Cases for Tridion-CoreService Module (MVP Retreat 2017 Project)”
One of the MVP retreat project was about the Tridion-CoreService PowerShell Module. Alvin explains use cases and tips.
Alvin Reyes: https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/tridion/tridion-developer/b/weblog/posts/use-cases-for-sdl-web-tridion-scripting

“Lessons from a Tridion Retreat: JavaScript for Java guys”
Great long read on JavaScript, with quite a bit of detail.
Frank Taylor: http://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2017/10/12/lessons-from-a-tridion-retreat-javascript-for-java-guys/ 

But, that is not all that happened this week…

“Instant Campaign v1.1”
Niclas introduces a new version of SDL’s Instant Campaign extension, aka HTML Campaign Upload Connector, aka Flexible Campaign Content. This release adds support for CMS campaign images, support for campaign properties and an improved assets controller.
Niclas Cedermalm: https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/tridion/tridion-developer/b/weblog/posts/instant-campaign-v1-1

“Trick to Submitting a POST Request with Java DXA 1.7”
Nick explains how to use CSRF to allow POST request in DXA JAVA.
Nickoli Roussakov: http://www.tridiondeveloper.com/trick-to-submitting-a-post-request-with-java-dxa 

“Installing DD4T templates”
How to install DD4T templates.
Naveen Kumar: https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/tridion/tridion-developer/b/weblog/posts/installing-dd4t-templates 

“Cheap, Affordable A/B Testing for Campaigns in Tridion”
Frank describes a quick way to do A/B testing.
Frank Taylor: http://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2017/10/11/cheap-affordable-ab-testing-for-campaigns-in-tridion/ 


Stats for last week
7 new questions on Tridion.Stackexchange
6 new Tridion.Stackexchange users
2 new SDL Web Ideas