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Magento 2

I downloaded and setup a Bitnami virtual machine for Magento 2 over the last few days.  I'm going to start looking into what it takes to make extensions for Magento.  I have worked on building an extension for Magento 1.9 in the past, but I didn't get it finished.

I would like to build a few of these extensions and put them out on the Magento marketplace.  From what I have seen so far it is very easy to extend and modify pretty much any part of the way Magento works.  My knowledge of php is somewhat limited too, so I am looking forward to getting into more depth with a language other than Coldfusion.  I am just getting started, but the way Magento works seems very interesting.

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