Some keywords from the conversation:

• Changes of the collaboration structure over the year
• Liferay is hiring independent of location, building an internationally distributed team.
• Overcoming the difficulties of this distributed work
• Current team size and structure
• How to bring in code contributions as a community member
• Liferay's coding standard being mandatory to match for contributions, strict Peer Reviews
• Contribution Experience: My quick-win with a small patch that was severely rewritten during peer review (LPS-33455)
• Milestones and when to start the beta cycle for version 6.2
• The accuracy of Liferay's past release date announcements and how to improve - both on Liferay's side as well as externally: What help do we need?
• Hold your breath: I got a target release date from Jorge. Yes, there's a disclaimer, but the intent is out now :)
• The recent feature freeze
• New features in 6.2: AlloyUI 2.0 (more info on that on episode 25), Twitter Bootstrap (we'll need feedback for theme-migration, please help, adopt early and report back), New Dockbar, Controlpanel overhaul, Site Administration (no longer in controlpanel), lots of usability improvements, sharing content across sites, recycle bin
• The swiss army knife of CMS, AssetPublisher, gets a lot of new features (obsoleting some of the well hidden features that I talked about in episode 23): filtering through the search index, scripting for output.
• The big plus on the technical side: OSGI (I sense an interesting topic for an upcoming episode)
• BugSquad
• DevCon (episode with more info already scheduled)
• Jorge's architecture series of blog posts

We talk about

• Turku, Finland
• When to use Vaadin vs. the other available technologies
• How Vaadin differs from GWT (hint: GWT is used for front-end UI rendering, but generally processes server-side
• A performance comparison and benchmarks that have been executed with Vaadin - and how it will change further with Server-Push in Vaadin 7.1
• The Devoxx-Talk "World Wide Wait" included Vaadin in its comparison as the fastest server-side solution.
• Vaadin recently released version 7 which is a huge step forward, unfortunately not 100% backward compatible with the version that ships with Liferay (6.x) but 6.x continues to be maintained. The backward compatibility for version 7 depends on the technology used by the applications, for regular applications it should be ok though.
• Arcusys, a Liferay Partner in Finland, picked up the development for the Vaadin controlpanel
• Vaadin is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, despite the main product being available for free (like Liferay), Vaadin has built quite a good business around the product. The company is sized at ~60 employees, offering services, consulting, training and some extra components that we briefly talk about.
• Eating your own dogfood vs. drinking your own champagne.
• Vaadin supports SASS and integrates easily with external javascript
• Widgets
• The Vaadin repository is hosted on github - go ahead, fork and collaborate

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Thanks a lot to Auphonic for improving the sound quality drastically - this is the first episode I had processed by them and it's been a really good experience - especially given the recording cirumstances.

We start with their history and

• Zeno's project jquery boilerplate. He's also one of the founders of the Brazil JS foundation
• Rosetta Stone, no longer hidden but very prominent on the website, comparing jQuery, YUI, AlloyUI
• The traumatic transition time in 2010 between Liferay 5.2 and 6.0, when AlloyUI replaced jQuery
• How Zeno got assimilated into Liferay
• The new website for AlloyUI with Tutorials, Examples and Documentation (alloyui.com)
• What's new in AlloyUI 2.0, when will it come into Liferay?
• Feedback from the community (portuguese video on youtube)
• Can I run different versions of YUI on the same site/page (as I can with jQuery within YUI with the help of YQuery)?
• who else is using AlloyUI or contributing to it?
• Zeno will be speaking at Jax 2013
• Honorable mention of the library that YUI is unofficially built on top of.
• TaglibGenerator: A tool to generate taglibs and integrate them with Javascript/AlloyUI
• Integration of taglibs into Liferay IDE/Developer Studio (Link to Greg's Episode)

• AlloyUI on twitter and stackoverflow

If you want to see more from Eduardo and Zeno, they also opened the recent 24 hour webcast "Day of Liferay" and the recording is available (click their names to go directly to the video), or follow @eduardolundgren and @zenorocha

Zsolt starts by laying out why Jira was fine for a single project (and it continues to be in use at issues.liferay.com), but not so much for the way we're supporting the enterprise customers.

After introducing the problem space, he's going through implementation timeline, migration, features and requirements, as well as later evolution of the system (naturally, LESA is still being actively developed and extended). Also, there are lots of metrics and how they are helping to improve service or efficiency growing the team.

You'll learn how Liferay's support teams were organized internally over the time and where we're heading to. At Liferay, we're not eating our own dogfood, we're rather drinking our own champagne. Where we don't do this now, we're planning to do so very soon. LESA is part of the activity to move a lot of functionality from 3rd party software into Liferay (or to integrate that software into the portal).

  This is a solo episode with yours truly. I had a lot of fun preparing and presenting this session, "Well Hidden Features", at the european symposium 2012 in Wiesbaden/Germany, as well as in Milano. They both built upon earlier presentations at the nordic and french symposiums and have been used as inspirations for other presentations at the north american as well as the spanish symposium. So, if you were at any of these symposiums, there's a good chance that you've heard some of the content.

Also, if you're working with Liferay for some time, there's another good chance for you to know some of the tipps&tricks already. As I mention at the beginning of the recording: This all is trivial knowledge - but in order to be trivial knowledge, it first has to be known - and I hope there's something in it even for the more experienced among you.

For those who want to read along the slides for this presentation: They can be found on the download page for the european symposium

Some of the topics you'll find in this episode

• Memory Management and configuration
• What to do when operating a bundle
• Neat features for builtin portlets and hacks I use on liferay.com/radio
• My favourite generator for UTF-8 test data
• How to use jQuery within AUI, and how to learn the differences between the two (and YUI)
• Extending Plugins
• two simple checkboxes in eclipse that made me unlearn the most simple and basic things
• A usecase that you did not know about the scripting console (disclaimer: found out that this works only once)
• An easy way to learn how to use the Liferay API to create users, pages, content etc.
• Getting debug information from your running production portal
• Activating some monitoring information
• My 2 cents about http and https and the largely unknown protocol relative URLs
• Places where you didn't expect to find great documentation
• portal-ext.properties caveats and properties that you might not want to keep in their default values

This is another episode recorded at the previous Liferay Retreat. I sat together with Samuel Kong, GM of the chinese office and member of Liferay's security team.

As I've been carrying this recording around for quite some while, note that there have been some changes during the last year. First and foremost, we have a new community security team, which was not around at the time of the recording. I'm planning to talk to someone from that team soon (consider yourself warned if you're on that team)

Some of the topics you'll find in this episode

• How to file a security issue - thankfully he is consistent with what Cynthia and Michael have reported: go to issues.liferay.com, file your issue under the component "security", optionally with private visibility. If you've already done so, please try if your issue is reproducible in the latest available version - your issue might already have been reported and fixed.
• OWASP (The Open Webapplication security project) site is a good resource for learning about security in Webapplications in general, independent of Liferay.
• The three tools that Liferay has built-in, helping you to prevent security issues:
  • Redirects: Some Properties, configuring the list of domain names and IPs, that Liferay is allowed to redirect to
  • CSRF: Auth-Token
  • XSS: The various escape-methods in com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.HtmlUtil - There are so many because the correct escaping depends on the context for which one escapes some HTML-Text. Also, the AlloyUI Taglibs help a lot when you're displaying user-content in forms. And also: The "escapedModel" that you can get from ServiceBuilder.
  • Bonus: SqlInjection and its prevention through ServiceBuilder.
• When to escape HTML text in order to be most flexible.
• Sidenote: A call to extract and read the full portal.properties: A long, boring and interesting read. Oh, and the dtds for xml files

This is another episode recorded at the previous Liferay Retreat. I sat together with Jim Hinkey, Knowledge Engineer and part of Liferay's knowledgement and documentation team, since March 2011. He took over ownership of the developer's guide and is the guy to bring back javadoc to Liferay (more about this and how/why Liferay once lost its javadoc at the end of this episode)

We talked about

• How Jim found Liferay
• Life in Raleigh/NC
• One of his biggest chokes, the (re)creation of javadocs for Liferay
• The process that Javadoc now has to go through in order to get into the product
• and other topics

As I managed to get short hold of Brian Chan, I had the opportunity to ask two more quick questions - one about the day when Liferay lost all of its javadoc and one sneaky question about consistency with the example of ThemeDisplay. If you - like me - always wondered where this name came from, you'll have to listen to this episode.

Last but not least, pardon the pun, but this was too good to be true - I just had to include this:

(The source for this cartoon is geekandpoke, licensed under Creative commons by-sa 3.0. Thank you so much, Oliver Widder)

We talked about

• Bruno started 2007 with a Liferay Training in L.A.
• founded the office as General Manager in Recife, Brazil in 2009
• his experience with dressing up in the L.A. office
• starting at Liferay (with the office rented from a church) meant that Bruno could tell his mother that he went to church every day
• how he became Bruno Admin, seemingly taking the role from Julio, and what this means for attending a gym
• Instead of handing out autographs, he got his own "flair", a pin that was handed out at the annual retreat for everybody who knew the password. Check out how much of the password he knows himself ;-)
• The setup and responsibilities of the brazilian office and what he does in the time he's not "generally managing"
• His responsibilities in Liferay Sync and the mobile story for the iOS and Android version
• (some brags about my personal pet-peeve, Linux support for Sync ;-) )
• What my previous company had in common with Liferay (hint: Name duplication - or triplication)

We talked about

• how Juan started with the task to integrate Liferay with Pentaho, becoming a community member and later joining the spanish office
• How Consulting findings are fed back into the product and what Juan did for the internationalization and localization of content in 6.1, default data for structures, related content, etc. (lots of new features for version 6.1 here)
• Juan's demo at the european symposium and what he did when he created a basic application within the WCM system
• If you have already implemented new custom Assets you don't need to do anything to get "related assets" functionality
• the spanish community, contributing features, plugins or other add ons, taking the examples of Jack Rider of xmlportletfactory fame, Aritz Galdos of Lifedroid, Juan Gonzalez (who contributed preview features for the document library)
• the french community, e.g. Leo Pratlong, who did some translations. (Juan also speaks french and helps out in the french community)
• ...and other topic

(I think I finally learnt how to pronounce the "z" in spanish names - challenge me when you meet me next time)

We talked about

• how Mike first met Brian Chan
• You might remember that Brian suggested Mike that he had to use EJB for his wedding website - here's the story behind that, and how it got him involved with Brian and Liferay in the end.
• The parts of Liferay's code that Mike was involved in - starting with "everyone did everything"
• Liferay Sync, OpenSocial and WSRP being the current areas of work
• With Mike I finally found the project lead, responsible for lobbying for a Linux client for Sync and was able to rant on. He delivered a nice and understandable reasoning. Even though this means I'll have to wait, I guess I won't rant any more ;-)
• The mentioned "not yet" released Sync product has actually been released this week
• Mike is the initial implementor of the OpenSocial implementation in 2009 or 2010, but now handed it over to Dennis
• I know Mike best for his involvement with WSRP, "Web Services for Remote Portlets" - we talk about what it is and what it takes to make this really compatible with other portals. There are quite some interpretations of this standard (and not only this) that need to be validated in the respective environments.
• The aspects that eat into performance when you have two portals involved in answering your request - and what the implementors on both side can do to mitigate the drawbacks.
• The nature of WSRP calls and how it all works on a very high level
• The roadmap for OpenSocial and what we're planning to build on top of that for the next release (6.2)

You'll find this episode - and make sure that you don't miss any of the future episodes - by subscribing to the RSS feed, on itunes or with your podcatcher of choice - you'll find all the options on www.liferay.com/radio. And if you want to get notified when the next episode is out, follow @RadioLiferay

This is another recording I did with some new recording gear, but, being new gear, I messed up the levels so I had to denoise it a bit, unfortunately a bit of noise still remains. I'm doing my best to get rid of that in future recordings.

And please remember to rate this podcast in your podcast directory of choice and provide feedback here on the episodes as well. Thank you.

So I sat together with Jeffrey Handa, Senior Training Consultant and Project Manager at Liferay and we spoke about Liferay's training offers, the existing courses, the new offerings, what changes are planned for the next time etc..

We talked about

• Jeff just had his 3rd birthray when we spoke, so he's in his fourth year now (I stole the term "birthray" from someone in the spanish office - can't remember who it was though, help me to get credit)
• Jeff is one of the people with the "classic" way of joining Liferay - sorry, there's no interesting story here.
• Jeff is involved in training: Preparing the material and actually teaching in trainings.
• We're speaking about the training courses Liferay offers and Jeff gives some description of what the courses are about, also on the cooperation with liferay's knowledge management team. This includes the classic courses (PortalAdmin, PortalDeveloper, SystemAdmin) as well as the new courses (ThemeDevelopment and AdvancedPortalDeveloper)
• some impressions of my (Olaf's) experience teaching portal admin training to customers that were using Liferay for some years already: They still got very good value out of it
• What knowledge you should have before taking one of the new courses: "building a theme" and "advanced portal development"
• Part of AdvancedPortalDevelopment is Writing Applications in webcontent. I have talked to Ray about this - he also has blogged about it.
• Jeff is mentioning the ContentAdministrator course and the vision for what PortalAdmin can be about. Now I wonder if we will rename it to PortalNinja sooner or later.
• Plans for what trainings will evolve to
• What PortalAdminExpress is, when it is applicable
• Trainings are available in several local languages as well.
• Plans for certification and exams
• Training is available on all supported EE versions - and public trainings will typically be held on the latest available EE version (but typically be released a bit after the EE release - if you expect the training to be on a specific version it pays to ask upfront. But we also speak about differences between the different versions, so that training is relevant for users of all versions of Liferay.

You'll find this episode - and make sure that you don't miss any of the future episodes - by subscribing to the RSS feed, on itunes or with your podcatcher of choice - you'll find all the options on www.liferay.com/radio. And if you want to get notified when the next episode is out, follow @RadioLiferay

We talked about

• what your kids think of your work when you're always looking at the Sesame Street while pretending to work.
• how Sesame frequently releases new content to the site - having fresh content and topics every so often is quite a task for the editorial team.
• Big parts of what have been custom for Sesame geting into the product now (in 6.1), namely staging, versioning and branching (improved from the version 6.0 implementation).
• Sesame being in the process of upgrading a high-traffic, high profile site from 5.1 to 6.1
• the server infrastructure as well as some of the software background (e.g. Alfresco, GSA)
• how is the site built - e.g. how much is stock, how much is custom? How is it all built?
• We close with a discussion about how people do find Liferay and learn about the product and the company.

You'll find this episode - and make sure that you don't miss any of the future episodes - by subscribing to  http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioLiferay with your favourite podcatcher or subscribe on itunes.

Something else...

Radio Liferay now has its own landing page at www.liferay.com/radio. So if you want to recommend this podcast to somebody, this is where you should point them to.

Also, I'd like to get more of your feedback: Do you feel this is valuable? Whereever you get the podcast - if there's an opportunity to rate it please do so - e.g. itunes currently does not have enough votes to display an average . Also, please provide feedback to the episodes so that I can balance the next topics and adjust them a bit more to your interest. You can do that on my blog or on twitter.

I do have a long list of community contributors that I'll contact in the next weeks to prepare some more recordings and mix them with the Liferay Employees as this whole program is not purely about the company people. Feel free to suggest more interviewees and topics though.

Thank you!

In this session I talked with Greg Amerson, the author of Liferay's development tooling.

This is one of the first recordings on new gear, unfortunately levelling was not ideal, so it had to significantly be amplified and denoised - bringing some drawbacks in audio quality, mainly noise despite the denoising, but you'll be able to stand it - promised. Also, I hoped to get this out before the holiday season, unfortunately this didn't work out that well for various reasons - Sorry for that, you'll get your late christmas wishes in this episode.

Among other topics we talked about:

• Greg got his exposure to Eclipse Tooling from being one of the first people to work on the MyEclipse product
• The distincion between Liferay IDE (for Liferay CE) and Liferay Developer Studio (for Liferay EE)
• The impressive size of the team to have worked on Liferay Tooling until now and from now on.
• Greg's current location: Working from the China Office and how he got from Texas to China and the future plans.
• The story how Greg found Liferay (you have to hear this - you might even learn your first words in Mandarin)
• The difference the IDE support made in Developer Training - and what ideas he and the team have in addition of the current features (please provide feedback on what you expect from developer tooling)
• Some of the ideas: Maven, personal templates, Marketplace, remote deployment and debugging
• A vision for the stability of Liferay's plugin environment

You'll find this episode - and make sure that you don't miss any of the future episodes - by subscribing to  http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioLiferay with your favourite podcatcher. You can also subscribe on itunes.: Just search for "Radio Liferay" or just "Liferay" in the podcast directory.

Find Greg as @greg_amerson, me as @olafk or my Alter Ego for just this program as @RadioLiferay on twitter.

Something else...

Radio Liferay now has its own landing page at www.liferay.com/radio. So if you want to recommend this podcast to somebody, this is where you should point them to.

Also, I'd like to get more of your feedback: Do you feel this is valuable? Whereever you get the podcast - if there's an opportunity to rate it please do so - e.g. itunes currently does not have enough votes to display an average . Also, please provide feedback to the episodes so that I can balance the next topics and adjust them a bit more to your interest. You can do that on my blog or on twitter.

I do have a long list of community contributors that I'll contact in the next weeks to prepare some more recordings and mix them with the Liferay Employees as this whole program is not purely about the company people. Feel free to suggest more interviewees and topics though.

Thank you!

In this session I talked with Bradley Wood. Brad is Frontend developer - involved in all things theme, CSS, Velocity. And he's maintaining a nice tumblelog with all kinds of Frontend tipps & tricks for Liferay (which brought him on my radar for the podcast).

Among other topics we talked about:

• Getting theme custom settings (e.g. color picker) through the API - now standardized and extended due to popular demand
• How Sass add power to CSS with variables (integrated in Liferay 6.1)
• Compass, a library of Sass functions with vendor specific CSS3
• Brad's style for creating a new theme, starting from photoshop, through CSS and Velocity
• Parts of adopting a Look&Feel might involve hooks to change the core Liferay JSPs
• Using structures and templates to improve the experience updating the content.
• The alternative to routine when it comes to editing velocity...
• Brad's tumblelog of Liferay Tipps&Tricks
• the marketplace themes for particular industries
• Think outside the box: How a theme can help you create an online shop by integrating google checkout
• Liferay Foundation and how Brad if involved with its projects (World Impact, which is where Brad's first experience with Liferay came from - here are the Camps and Schools sites)
• Upgrading themes from 5.2 to 6.0: How to handle the core css differences and vm
• Recommendation: Have a common way to comment and format your code
• How to use categories to simulate runtime-configurable theme settings in version 5.2 and 6.0 (as they are now standard in 6.1)

Find Brad as @randombrad, me as @olafk or my Alter Ego for just this program as @RadioLiferay on twitter.

Something else...

Also, just in time for the holiday and gift season we finished something new - sadly I've had to delay publishing this episode, so I only partly announced it upfront: Radio Liferay now has its own landing page at www.liferay.com/radio. So if you want to recommend this podcast to somebody, this is where you should point them.

Also, I'd like to get more of your feedback: Do you feel this is valuable? Whereever you get the podcast - if there's an opportunity to rate it please do so - e.g. itunes currently does not have enough votes to display an average . Also, please provide feedback to the episodes so that I can balance the next topics and adjust them a bit more to your interest. You can do that on my blog or on twitter.

I do have a long list of community contributors that I'll contact in the next weeks to prepare some more recordings and mix them with the Liferay Employees as this whole program is not purely about the company people. Feel free to suggest more interviewees and topics though.

Thank you!

Among other topics we talked about

• Frontends for Sync, (Sync was first mentioned in Episode 11 by Alex and Sergio)
• The (currently) missing OS support for Windows ME and Linux and which one will be supported first (most likely)
• Mobile Clients, Desktop Clients
• Sync uses JSON Webservices
• OpenSocial
• Various presentations on OpenSocial on ECS, WCS (by Dennis),  EuCS (by Juan)
• OpenSocial on Liferay LIVE in January 2011

Some of the topics we talked about:

• How they met and started to work despite different music and food taste
• How or if college grades (might) relate to real life
• While they used to live on the same floor some time, now they are still on the same planet...
• Crazy organic growth and the hardest year, Rooming arrangements and sacrifices during the startup phase
• The honorary Brian (the fourth founder, who could not join the recording), Mike Young, and why he should use EJBs for his marriage, what risk he took
• How Caris put up with Brian's activity after 10pm and got Liferay's invoices off of notepad
• The long term plans, "no exit" strategy and how a business can help to do good
• And at the end the microphone unexpectedly turned around, and I give away pieces of my history with Liferay

You'll find this episode - and make sure that you don't miss any of the future episodes - by subscribing to  http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioLiferay with your favourite podcatcher. You can also subscribe on itunes.: Just search for "Radio Liferay" or just "Liferay" in the podcast directory.

Obligatory Twitter Links: Brian Chan, Brian Kim, Bryan Cheung, me and RadioLiferay

My shownotes:

• Their background and what they worked on in Liferay
• How to pronounce names
• Naturally: The work both did on Document/Media Library and related portlets through the last year: The document library got a good rewrite, Ajax-based UI and a new backend to use Liferay as entry-point into other external repository systems.
• CMIS (short for Content Management Interoperability Something - see link)
• A lot of the document library backend war developed with JUnit and worked within a few days of work with the independently created UI when they were first brought together.
• Different Document types are now first class citizens, so that you have certain metadata as well as separate workflows for different types of content.
• Document Library and Image Gallery changed to Document and Media Library (for storage) and Media Gallery Display (for presentation) - the data and permissions will be automatically migrated
• Previews for many document types will be automatically generated.
• Listing alternative interfaces to the backend: Browser, WebDAV, Sharepoint protocol, Liferay Sync
• Sync will work offline and synchronize any change (bidirectionally) with Document & Media Library when it's online, available for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS. Sadly there's one OS missing...
• Iliyan is now europe's resident AlloyUI/JS expert
• Download Beta 4 (or whatever is current when you read/listen to this) and give feedback, report bugs before Alex 2.0 is released.

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Obligatory Twitter Links: Alex, Sergio, me and RadioLiferay

]]> Alexander Chow, Senior Software Engineer at Liferay in UK; Sergio González, Liferay Core Engineer, located in Spain This is a conversation with Alexander Chow and Sergio González about their main topic of work for the last year: Liferay's Document Library, or as it's renamed for version 6.1, "Media Library" Olaf Kock no 0:31:23 liferay, Alexander Chow, Alex Chow, alexchow, Sergio González, sergiogonzalez, Document Library, Media Library, olafkock, olaf kock, radio liferay, RadioLiferay, Portal, Portalserver https://www.liferay.com/web/olaf.kock/blog/-/blogs/radio-liferay-episode-11%3A-alexander-chow-and-sergio-gonzalez-about-document-media-libraryhttp://www.olafkock.de/radio-liferay/rl011-alex-chow-sergio-gonzales.mp3 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioLiferay/~3/qfn1KrtNnsU/radio-liferay-episode-10%3A-michael-han https://www.liferay.com/web/olaf.kock/blog/-/blogs/radio-liferay-episode-10%3A-michael-han#_33_fm2 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:00:00 +0100 radioliferay@olafkock.de (Olaf Kock) (Olaf Kock) https://www.liferay.com/web/olaf.kock/blog/-/blogs/radio-liferay-episode-10%3A-michael-han Liferay for your ears - Meeting Michael Han, Liferay's Vice President of Operations, at the european symposium, I used the opportunity to record an episode on some of his working areas, namely security and performance. He gives some good background on these issues.

Among other topics, we spoke about:

• His background, how he came to Liferay and what he's mainly working on
• Mike is with Liferay since 4 years - helped setting up the international offices and business.
• "Follow the sun" support: International offices required for support around the clock
• Performance gains from version to version, sampling with logging in.
• Mike's involvement in performance tuning, how the performance whitepaper is built and what you need to understand about your system in order to expect the correct results based on the performance whitepaper's numbers.
• The different ways that the "number of users" can be interpreted and how to find out the required number of servers.
• 3-4 man-years of effort go into performance-tuning enterprise edition
• How to read security reports: Why 50 deep-red issues might show up to not be as bad as they look initially
• Black-box and White-box testing for security issues
• Circumstances under which a possible SQL-injection is not a problem
• Security of Open Source software - with an example
• How to report security issues: File an issue in Jira, set the component to "security" and the visibility to "private", so that only you and Liferay staff can see this issue. Enterprise customers just file an issue in their account and flag it as security issue.
• How to set up a performing system, what parameters should you care for - along with some numbers we see on garbage collections etc. and why you can have too much memory.
• There used to be a Sun/Oracle blog about every single JVM option since version 1.3, as we found out preparing these notes, this is no longer available. But there are alternative links
• Other documentation for other vendor's JVMs
• How we determine which server architecture to build the performance testing environment on.

Part of my original intent was to speak about their contributions and learn what Liferay can do better with regards to accepting contributions. Turns out that this was a handpicked crowd of notorious contributors that praised more than they criticized - well, so be it, it's good to hear this.

Among other topics, we spoke about

• Naturally: The Symposium and what it's all about: Meeting people, the energy. All four of them work with/for Liferay Partner Companies. Stating also my personal recommendation: If you have any chance to make it to one of Liferay's symposium, make sure to go.
• Tomáš best known contribution is the initial Extlet (now ext-plugin). This made it possible to move from the initial monolithic and huge ext-environment (singular) to very lightweight plugins (plural) in 6.0
• Corné started with Liferay 3.x, is the Dutch translation leader.
• Milen contributed the mobile device detection using WURFL, which he also demoed during the symposium.
• Maarten is involved with themes, usability and accessibility. Also, he pushed "commenting as a guest", a new feature in 6.1
• All of them contribute to many of the active community programs, Bugsquad, 100 paper cuts, etc. that James introduced.
• Getting responses from core Liferay developers and personnell during the symposium and in the community.
• Get knowledgable by learning from helping others:
• Milen's and Tomasz's work on the Maven SDK

I hope that a lot of the enthusiasm that I've seen in this round as well as in any symposium I've been to can be transferred through the recording.

It was a great opportunity to get together with these guys, but sadly the episode is shorter than it could have been - we recorded this towards the end of the symposium, just before the community excellence awards were handed out - and as some of the participators were receiving them, I couldn't keep them busy for longer.

No children were harmed during the recording of this podcast - at least not by us: There were a few playing outside, running around and screaming - and the hotel room was not too soundproof, so this got onto the recording.

The introduction is done by Bryan Cheung, another member of Liferay's founding team and the Chief Executive Officer. As this is the full keynote, I really recommend to listen to it in full, and for that reason don't provide a bullet point list of the topics here. Just this: You'll learn a lot about the setup of the company, the vision, the reason why you want to work with Liferay - the product as well as the company. And why the company will stay with this vision for the foreseeable future. And where the name "Liferay" comes from. And so many more things - Brian is a fast speaker.

One of the next episodes will be a follow-up to this episode, as I used the opportunity to sit down with 3/4 of the founder's team, namely all the Brians (This poses a spelling problem: What's the plural of "Brian, Brian and Bryan"? I'll make it "The Brians")

You'll find this episode - and make sure that you don't miss any of the future episodes - by subscribing to  http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioLiferay with your favourite podcatcher. You can also subscribe on itunes.: Just search for "Radio Liferay" or just "Liferay" in the podcast directory.

You can find Brian, me and (new) the announcements for Radio Liferay on twitter and on many more places on the web.

We spoke about these topics - and probably more:

• User Interface
• Accessibility
• Localization (Translation Team, Forum, Process)
• pootle on http://translate.liferay.com
• Initial translation by babelfish
• Translation workflow and how to find the context for translations
• Visualize all translations and keys on a page (plugin)
• The European Symposium (the recording was made prior to the symposium, release is after the event)
• Accessibility Guidelines by W3C (WCAG 2.0), Screenreaders
• Accessibility through using AlloyUI taglibs and the effect of themes on Accessibility
• Guidelines for developent, How to make consistent UIs and how they are made in Liferay (shameless plug: referencing Aaron Delani and Nate Cavanaugh)
• Getting from Photoshop to a UI
• BugSquad
• Different Kinds of Contribution: Just mentioning an issue somewhere does help. If you can help fix the problem, it might help even more, but don't keep any feedback for yourself..)

You'll find this episode - and make sure that you don't miss any of the future episodes - by subscribing to  http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioLiferay with your favourite podcatcher. You can also subscribe on itunes.: Just search for "Radio Liferay" or just "Liferay" in the podcast directory.

You can find Julio, me and (new) the announcements for Radio Liferay on twitter and on more places on the web.

We spoke about these topics - and probably more:

•  Photoshop, Gimp, InDesign and other graphical editing tools
• Aaron's hiring procedures
• Hints for "How to design a Theme"
• ControlPanel "S" (and what the S stood for). In the mean time it's just the ordinary ControlPanel again, no fancy name, but lots of fancy functionality was added for version 6.1
• Hidden Gems in ControlPanel
• The new DocumentLibrary
• User Interface Guide
• Liferay's UI for Social Equity
• Presenting mobile content in Liferay and the Roadmap for 6.1, mobile themes, "mobile-enabled" portlets

You'll find this episode - and make sure that you don't miss any of the future episodes - by subscribing to  http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioLiferay with your favourite podcatcher. You can also subscribe on itunes.: Just search for "Radio Liferay" or just "Liferay" in the podcast directory.

We spoke about these topics - and probably more:

• Cynthia was once mistaken as a Jira bot
• The Product Backlog maintained in Liferay's Jira
• Agile Plugin for Jira (formerly Greenhopper)
• Recommendations on how to file issues in Liferay's Issuetracker, so that they are taken care of.
• security issues and how to file them
• fixpacks and the new patchtool
• Marketplace
• Sevencogs Hook
• Social Office
• The Definitive Release Date (sic!) for the next version (no link, you'll have to listen ;-)
• The release philosophy
• A Releasecandidate planned for 14. Oct. 2011 (Sadly, due to intense work preparing the upcoming european symposium, I didn't manage to publish this before the 14. Oct. So after the fact, this has been relabelled a beta)

You'll find this episode - and make sure that you don't miss any of the future episodes - by subscribing to  http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioLiferay. You can also subscribe on itunes.: Just search for "Radio Liferay" or just "Liferay" in the podcast directory.

And look Ma - a new Logo for the podcast. Isn't that nice?

We spoke about these topics - and probably more:

• Internet coverage in Northern Ontario
• Forums, IRC, Blog
• The beauty of XML and XSLT (in 2004)
• Bits of Liferay's history since 2004, e.g. the Sourceforge Mailinglist
• Some Features Ray has been involved in: WCMS, Permissions, Document Repositories, Asset API, Service Builder, Staging, Search - basically most of what's somehow related to WCM.
• The enjoyment of sharing information. Not disseminating information is counterproductive. (At this place I'd like to place a completely unrelated shoutout to JT - you know what for ;-) )
• the benefits of keeping hands away from UI code.
• (Learning english in this episode consists of my "inadvertently" stumbling across my tongue)
• Feature talk: The new staging in 6.1, "site variations", how work on it was done.
• The use of the different templating languages: Velocity, Freemarker, XSLT
• WebContent and Templates can partly replace portlet & plugin development.  Documented on Ray's Blogpost Advanced Web Content Example with Ajax and Liferay Live presentation
• OSGi, in Ray's Blog and on github

Find Ray and me on twitter

You'll find this episode - and make sure that you don't miss any of the future episodes - by subscribing to  http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioLiferay. You can also subscribe on itunes.: Just search for "Radio Liferay" or just "Liferay" in the podcast directory.

We spoke about these topics - and probably more:

• Liferay's UI history
• Javascript, Drag&Drop positioning of portlets on page
• The introduction of jQuery in Liferay and the standardization on it in 5.1
• The reason behind the switch to YUI and AlloyUI (also here)
• Delivery of AlloyUI from Yahoo's servers
• Nate and Eduardo Lundgren working with the Yahoo Team
• The Liferay AlloyUI team (Eduardo, Nate, Bruno Basto, Ilyian Peychev, John Mak)
• Learning AlloyUI. Start with yuilibrary.com (then change Y to A)
• Namespacing and Sandboxing in AlloyUI
• JSP Taglibs for AlloyUI, TagBuilder
• YUI documentation builder
• Liferay IDE and Developer Studio, Greg Amerson
• Looking forward: AlloyUI will be the UI library of choice for 6.1 - no changes planned ;-)
• jsrosettastone - translating jquery to yui. And another version for jquery to AlloyUI on github
• Oh, and Olaf is learning english again: Capitalization
• AlloyUI is on github, help, participation and pull requests are welcome
• Erik Andersson (honorable mention)

Find Nate and me on twitter

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We've had a few audio quality issues, so please bear with some dropouts or cracks in there, it's only episode 2 and I'm learning the best setup for skype for these purposes.

We spoke about these topics - and probably more:

• Bruno Admin, Rich Editor, Michelle Writer and John Regular User
• Liferay Administration Guide, Liferay Development Guide and Liferay documentation at large
• Liferay in Action, Rich's upcoming book
• documentation in markdown on github
• Liferay's Javadoc Master (Jim Hinkey)
• Storytelling (The Chocolate Monster)
• Olaf learns english and discovers the opposite of fiction: Non-fiction
• Teaching
• Liferay's Training program (new: Advanced Developer & Themes Training, incidently: held the day before WCS)

Find Rich and me on twitter

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• The community homepage on liferay.org
• liferay (the company) looks at more than just the bottom line (e.g.liferay foundation, though we didn't talk about this)
• geographical community distribution
• user groups being introduced
• community leadership, BugSquad, 100 papercuts
• pootle on translate.liferay.com
• upcoming Symposiums
• Ray is in trouble
• Community Edition, Enterprise Edition
• IRC
• Motivation for participation

Find James and me on twitter

In related news: We do have a feed now: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioLiferay so that you don't need to download manually any more. I'll submit to itunes soon and let you know when itunes has picked it up.

After a long time of "just intending" I finally went ahead and started recording a podcast about Liferay - the project, the product, the people and the company. Episode 0, a brief introduction with the intent and some generic information is available for manual download. It's only 4:12.

Episode 1 will be out within a day - I sat together with James Falkner, Liferay's community manager, who luckily agreed to be my guinea pig. Episode 2 is - contrary to what I say in episode 0 - already recorded and will need a bit of post-production. Stay tuned for this - I'm speaking with the Alter Ego of "Rich Editor".

You might have noticed that I said "manual download" - there's no feed yet. But as I had the content, and it's kind of timely because we talk about the symposiums, I wanted it out in public as soon as possible. So please bear with me while I create a feed that somehow contains what the typical feedreader - especially itunes - does expect. The whole setup, hosting etc. is temporary and will change soon.

So use this to practice manual download and listening to yours truly. Episode 1 will probably also predate the feed, but it should not be by far.