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  For the annual Liferay Retreat, I was in L.A. again and took the opportunity to record several new episodes - this one as the first OpenAir recording. This also marks the advent of my new recording gear - expected to raise audio quality quite a bit.

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)

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 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!