Iliyan Peychev

Those of you who were following the Frontend trends the last two years, would know that there was a big movement toward the next version of JavaScript, previously know as ES6 and now as ECMAScript 2015 (ES2015). If you just want to know what is this blog post about, here it is - writing ES2015 and loading JS modules as specified in the standard, as well as installing and using...

As you probably know, in Liferay we are working on a new and exiting project, called Liferay Screens. In two words, the project allows creating complex native applications for iOS and Android in a blink of an eye. If you haven’t tried it already, go ahead, it is worth! Show me, don't explain me! Here is a video, which Jose Manuel, the lead of Liferay...

  The previous versions of Liferay Portal already supported RTL (right-to-left text) in limited way, but since we started the development cycle of Liferay 7.0 we really wanted to improve it. In front of us there were two main goals: - to convert automatically as much as possible of the UI when language direction is changed - to free the developer as much as possible...

Last week, during Liferay Spain Symposium 2013, Olaf Kock recorded a new episode for Liferay Radio with your truly. I talked about my life as developer in Liferay, about the development process of Liferay Portal 6.2, about AlloyUI and so on. The episode will be published soon.   As you probably know, I'm working on everything, which is somehow related to UI -...

AlloyUI is the engine which drives the UI of all Liferay products. Since it was created in 2009, it has grown really fast and we are very close to the point where we will release ver. 2.0. We will appreciate if you give us some feedback!   Over the years, tests and documentation have sometimes been sacrificed in order to speed up the development process. As result, not...

You might be already aware of that, but for the others - Liferay 6.1 will have WYSIWYG editors for Wiki Creole and BBCode. You may use the first one in order to create Wiki pages and the second one - to write messages in Message boards. Actually, you can try Wiki editor right now - it was backported to 6.0 and it is already available on Liferay site (edit or create a new...

Liferay 6.1 will have one more significant improvement because we just added History support to trunk. It will allow JavaScript developers to restore the normal browser behavior and the user will be able to navigate through pages as usual - by pressing Back/Forward buttons. The issues For those, who are not aware why is that important, let me explain it with a few words....