Last Week in Magento Quickies, July 4th Edition

Last week on Magento Quickies I posted

1. A link to my Stack Overflow answer explaining the theme fallback system

2. Another link, to Ivan Chepurnyi’s roundup of Magento 2 changes for developers

3. Some musings on changes w/r/t symlinks and phtml block templates, in relation to the forthcoming Magento 1.6 release

4. A link to Magento Answers, where Ebay’s Magento division tells us what multi-database features mean for our extensions, as wells as some new deprecatedNode abstractions added to config.xml for backwards compatibility

5. A link to my Stack Overflow answer, on a proposed methodology for using pure javascript to customize the look and feel of the Admin Console