Radio Liferay

A repeat guest - today I've talked to one member of my team, Bryan Cheung. Bryan was start of my welcome committee when I started working for Liferay in 2010, and that's where we start the conversation. (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

David Gomez is part of Liferay's Developer Relations Team, and we took some time to talk about the upcoming /dev/24 livestream of developers and other users of Liferay DXP and Liferay Portal with a technical background. (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

Yasuyuki, short Yasu, is Supportability Engineer at Liferay. He's working out of Japan for ~8 years now, and in that time has started an interesting side project that you might be interested in. Well - I was interested, so I asked him for some time and we talked about it: Damascus. (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

For this episode of Radio Liferay, I've talked with Bryce Osterhaus, Frontend Developer at Liferay for ~ 6 years. With his experience, he's a perfect complement to me: While he feels at home in the browser, client side, I'm comfortable on the backend, away from all of the messy frontend stuff - prepare for some naïve questions coming his way. We spoke about a design decision that has been made in some internal projects: His team has built a UI that does not utilize Liferay's page/site infrastructure. It's rather an application that utilizes some of the infrastructure but not what's typically used to compose frontend applications on a portal. Or, in the rage of the day, you could say: "Headless". ;) (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

A while ago I sat down with Ryan Schuhler. He's Associate Program Manager at Liferay, which is a fancy name for Webteam Lead, and we talked about "dogfooding" Liferay DXP to build liferay.com - which features are used, how the site evolved and what is fed back into the product. (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

Oops - in times of fast news like this, I sat on the recording for a while. Unacceptable, but as almost nobody is commuting in April/May 2020, it's questionable if you'd have put it on during your commute anyway... Happy 10th Birthray to Zsolt and me and several others (listen to the episode if you want to know what that means) This is a quite non-technical episode, just two people remembering the "good old times": Don't expect to learn anything new about the product(s) - instead you'll hear about how we got from "there" to "here" in the past 10 years.

An episode that was recorded together with episode 62, but got a bit lost (well, I admit - it was just sitting on my disk). But here we are: David shares four of his favorite horror stories - those that tought him what he never wants to see again. Hopefully it's useful so that you learn from it before experiencing those stories yourself.

For this episode I spoke with Andrew Jardine, Community Contributor Award winner for 7 years in a row about his history with Liferay, the community, how to improve it and, of course, his new passion project, https://masteringliferay.com/ We've recorded this episode during Devcon 2019, but I've been keeping it back for a bit, to give Andrew a bit more time to produce more content for the site that we mainly talk about. Check it out - prepare to be amazed. (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

A conversation with David Nebinger, the number one contributor on the Liferay forums, about frequently asked questions.

It took me long enough to bring her on: She's followed Liferay's history for longer than some of the other founders: Caris Chan. And yes, that name means that she's Brian Chan's wife. During my last visit in Liferay HQ, I took the opportunity and asked her about her view on Liferay's history - about 15 years for the company and 20 years for the software project. (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

An episode on the "Per" things: Performance and Permissions. I spoke to Preston Crary, who amazingly was not mad at me for losing an earlier recording. (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

Yay, another episode, and maybe in time to sweeten your trip to Devcon in Amsterdam. I spoke to Kristoffer Onias and Victor Ware. Both work on testing Liferay with different areas of interest. You'll hear quite a bit about what Liferay does internally on testing. I actually talked to them quite a while ago, and the episode has been sitting on my disk since then.The numbers that you hear may no longer be accurate, but the overall information definitely is. Sorry for keeping it a secret for so long (there's an even longer kept secret... up next...) (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

Two episodes (or an eternity) ago, I spoke to Jorge Ferrer, Liferay's VP of Engineering. We didn't have enough time to finish the conversation, so we continued a while after - and then I buried the recording /o\. Anyway, apart from it being still from "before the release of the current version", it's still relevant stuff, I feel bad about missing to post it. Check for yourself - here it finally is. (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

Today I'm welcoming a repeat guest and a new one: Jim Hinkey (of episode 21 fame) and Cody Hoag - both from Liferay's documentation and knowledge management team. This episode has unfortunately suffered from various disturbances in the space-time-continuum: I had it sitting on my disk for quite a while. The Javadoc Contest that we've "started" in this episode was actually published/announced in the meantime and unfortunately ended recently. Congratulations to Sébastien and Marcellus. However, not to render the call for action in this episode useless, let's start another one soon - there can't be enough Javadoc, and I admit that we have still plenty of opportunities to write new documentation left for you. Please subscribe to the comments on Cody's winner's announcements to see the update - I'll also mention it on a Radio Liferay episode once it's been restarted. But I'll also put a word in for you if you already write the javadoc now. (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in t

Today I'm welcoming a repeat guest, Jorge Ferrer, Liferay's VP of Engineering. I've had the great opportunity to ask him a lot of questions that provide deep insight into what's running behind the scenes in the engineering team. We didn't have enough time, so this is part 1 of our conversation, to be continued in episode 58. I need to squeeze in the (already recorded) episode that contains more information about the Javadoc Contest (please participate). (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

In this episode I'm talking probably one last time to James Falkner about upcoming changes... James was the first guest on Radio Liferay (back in episode 1 - as well as others) and now - at least temporarily until episode 66 is published - will be the last. We're talking about upcoming changes, and sadly it looks like this will be his last appearance on this program. (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

In this episode, recorded at Liferay's Devcon 2015 in Darmstadt/Germany, I'm talking to Scott Nicklous and Neil Griffin. Scott is the specification lead for JSR-362 - otherwise known as the Portlet Specification 3.0 - and Neil serves as Liferay's representative on the expert group. (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

I met repeat guest Nate Cavanaugh, Liferay's Director of UI Engineering, at this year's Devcon and he answered all UI-based questions that we could quickly think about - specifically with regards to Liferay 7 (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

Modularization / Liferay 7 part 2/2. Again with Ray Auge, with Milen Dyankov as Cohost. We're now talking about the new strategies for developing plugins, how to update 6.2 plugins to Liferay 7, for every single plugin type we have: Portlets, Hooks, Layout Templates, Themes, Ext (More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

Another Devcon "private" session - I missed his presentations, but got the summary right when he was done: Ray Augé took the time to answer all sorts of questions about the Modularization in Liferay 7. In fact, he answered so many questions that we made it a 2-episode recording. This week it's about the motivation for modularization: What problem does it solve? Next week will be more technical, telling you about the implications of the updated architecture to your code.