Blogs

Hi all, welcome to another installment of Community Roundup!  The last one was 2 weeks ago (been busy with a few other initiatives, see below), so I've got a lot to share.  Once the community landing page is complete (it's pretty much done now, just doing some final tweaks to make it magical), you can get even more up-to-date community news there, but I'll continue to post a digest for your reading pleasure.

• JIRA is a nice issue tracker, but it can be confusing to newcomers (even outside of Liferay).  I updated the JIRA wiki page to document all those oddball fields and give some usage tips for Liferay'ers.
• Earlier I announced two new community initiatives: 100 PaperCuts and Liferay Community Leadership Program.  Even if you don't want to participate in the programs, we still need your help.  Vote for your favorite issues at issues.liferay.com and make get your bucket list shorter!  Here's the current ticket list sorted by votes.  The timer runs out Wednesday, March 2nd for the first community sprint.
• Robert signed up for the Translation Team to work on Romanian translations.  Very cool!
• For our Spanish speakers, José is doing a webinar on Integrating JSF and Liferay next Wednesday. "Os prometo que una vez veáis las ventajas y la sinergia entre ICEfaces y Liferay, empezaréis a usar esta combinación."
• Kefa gives a nice step-by-step Linux install guide, including MySQL configuration and demo content removal.
• Capella University recently chose Liferay Portal for its new university experience.  Check it out.  Along the same lines, Osaka Gas is also using Liferay.
• If you missed Ray's Liferay Live: Staging session yesterday, don't worry, all of the previous session recordings are being prepped to be posted for playback.  Will let you know as soon as they are posted.
• Speaking of Liferay Live, I'm hosting a session next Wednesday (Janary 19) at 10am PST on our wonderful community and its roadmap.  Register for free, and hope to see you there!
• Ray also discusses the current buzz around NoSQL, and demonstrates Liferay on MongoDB.  "There seems to be an overwhelming desire to find scallability solutions that don't seem to be addressed with an RDBMS. What is Liferay to do?"
• Newsletters Portlet for Liferay.  Hiding homepages. More great content from eo Networks!
• Is there any difference between taglib-used JSPs and the normal ones? Find out here. (hint: it's a performance thing)
• Using Orbeon and Form Runner on Liferay? Want to deploy and manage them them separately?  Now you can.
• Recent Wiki page updates: Performance, Javadoc Guidelines, JAAS, OpenLDAP+JAAS, JIRA, Flash, CAS on Liferay 6

Whew, that is all for now.  Don't forget to vote for your "favorite" issues!