Radio Liferay Episode 23: Olaf Kock, Well Hidden Features

New year's resolution: Publish more podcast episodes. Let's start - Happy New Year, wishing you all the best for 2013...

  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

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Thanks Olaf for sharing this. Wish we had more of these kind of episodes, I really liked it. My favorites:

JAVA_OPTS Vs. CATALINA_OPTS
Monitoring on each page
YQuery

Keep it coming emoticon
Hi Jay,
thanks for the feedback. As you liked the monitoring on each page, I hope you already found this information that makes it more easily digestible: https://www.liferay.com/web/olaf.kock/blog/-/blogs/displaying-portlet-monitoring-information

I'm definitely collecting this kind of features, hoping I'll get enough for a "even better hidden features" in the next symposium season (or podcast episode). If you (or somebody else reading this) has hints what's worth to cover, please let me know
Sure will do that Olaf, will try to collect these kind of topics myself as well & will share with you.

On the other side, I would suggest to have episodes on "Liferay Use Cases" as well. This can be episodes on how various clients/organizations have used Liferay successfully to meet their particular requirements/challenges. I know Liferay (at some point) was used to cover use-cases on projects, but wouldn't it be awesome if we have Technical Architects across the world explain their use-cases, implementation challenges, major accomplishments achieved using Liferay platform.

What do you think?
Hi Jay,
I'm happy to include specific usecases - common ones as well as uncommon ("creative") uses of the platform. That being said, I need to know that there is a solution out there with an architect or stakeholder that would like to speak about it. The first part of this is easy, it's the second part, a person that is willing and able to speak, that's hard. I depend on input and volunteers here.
Yeah I completely agree with you Olaf. Here's what I can do to get it started....
I just completed really nice unique project using Liferay platform. I am already working on the case study of that project, once done I will share that with you. If you like it, we can have small radio episode on that one. What do you think?
Sure will do that Olaf, will try to collect these kind of topics myself as well & will share with you.

On the other side, I would suggest to have episodes on "Liferay Use Cases" as well. This can be episodes on how various clients/organizations have used Liferay successfully to meet their particular requirements/challenges. I know Liferay (at some point) was used to cover use-cases on projects, but wouldn't it be awesome if we have Technical Architects across the world explain their use-cases, implementation challenges, major accomplishments achieved using Liferay platform.

What do you think?
Sure will do that Olaf, will try to collect these kind of topics myself as well & will share with you.

On the other side, I would suggest to have episodes on "Liferay Use Cases" as well. This can be episodes on how various clients/organizations have used Liferay successfully to meet their particular requirements/challenges. I know Liferay (at some point) was used to cover use-cases on projects, but wouldn't it be awesome if we have Technical Architects across the world explain their use-cases, implementation challenges, major accomplishments achieved using Liferay platform.

What do you think?
Sure will do that Olaf, will try to collect these kind of topics myself as well & will share with you.

On the other side, I would suggest to have episodes on "Liferay Use Cases" as well. This can be episodes on how various clients/organizations have used Liferay successfully to meet their particular requirements/challenges. I know Liferay (at some point) was used to cover use-cases on projects, but wouldn't it be awesome if we have Technical Architects across the world explain their use-cases, implementation challenges, major accomplishments achieved using Liferay platform.

What do you think?
Sure will do that Olaf, will try to collect these kind of topics myself as well & will share with you.

On the other side, I would suggest to have episodes on "Liferay Use Cases" as well. This can be episodes on how various clients/organizations have used Liferay successfully to meet their particular requirements/challenges. I know Liferay (at some point) was used to cover use-cases on projects, but wouldn't it be awesome if we have Technical Architects across the world explain their use-cases, implementation challenges, major accomplishments achieved using Liferay platform.

What do you think?
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