Radio Liferay

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 effor

Liferay for your ears: Episode 9 of Radio Liferay is another premier: This marks the first recording with more than one interviewee, as well as the first non-Liferay Employees. I used the opportunity during the european symposium to get together with Corné Aussems, Maarten van Heiningen, Milen Dyankov and Tomáš Polešovský, four Community Contributors. podcast-logo 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 (

Liferay for your ears: Episode 8 is a premiere in this program: Brian Chan, Liferay's founder and Chief Software Architect, is the first that I didn't record in a conversation: Instead this is a recording from Brian's closing keynote at the European Symposium. I had originally planned to record an episode with Brian, but during this keynote he already answered 80% of what I had on my list - and added another 80% that I did not have on my list. So for now I settled with the keynote, well worth listening to 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 na

Liferay for your ears: Episode 7 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Julio Camarero, Software Engineer in Liferay's spanish office. As a certified Legend he's well known in the forums here, and with regards to this status the highest ranking Liferay-Employee recorded until today. We recorded this episode on very short notice when we met in our german office back in September. 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 * Guideli

Episode 6 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Aaron Delani, UI Software Engineer at Liferay. This is another episode recorded while I was in L.A for the annual Westcoast symposium. Thanks again to everybody there for the hospitality. 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 subscri

Episode 5 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Cynthia Wilburn, Project Manager at Liferay, the engineering group's professional nag (short: Catherder) and single wringable neck for release dates. We recorded this episode right after Liferay's Westcoast Symposium in the L.A. office in the same room as the last episode with Ray - so we'll have the same echo. I hope you don't mind.

Episode 4 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Raymond Augé, Sr. Software Architect at Liferay

Episode 3 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Nate Cavanaugh, Liferay's Director for UI Engineering about AlloyUI, the switch from jQuery

Episode 2 of Liferay Radio is out. I'm speaking with Rich Sezov, responsible for Liferay's documentation, author of the upcoming book "Liferay in Action" and Alter Ego of "Rich Editor" for those of you who have seen the sevencogs demo setup of Liferay. 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.

Episode 1 of Liferay Radio is out. I'm speaking with James Falkner, Liferay's community manager. We spoke about these Topics (and probably more):

Let me introduce myself as the one who wants to be the resident german accent in your ears. 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