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Several months ago, I read an article talking about a new concept for me: the Hacker in Residence.

Since then, I saw pretty clearly that it would be a wonderful initiative within Liferay, given that we're a global and distributed company, with several teammates working from different countries and timezones.

So three months ago, we were trying to make progress in the Android version of Liferay Screens, and it was being harder than expected. At that time, we were planning our company retreat, and we thought it would be a good thing to work with some of our Brazilian mates and push the project forward. So that's what we did: Silvio, Josi and I were working together at our HQ for a week. We were focused in Liferay Screens in order to make progress and the results couldn't be better. 

When we were back at home after the retreat, we thought that working together for one whole month in the Madrid's office woud be awesome to finish the job started. So no sooner said than done. Silvio took his bags, and at mid-January he was landing at Madrid (:

During these weeks spent together, we achieved a lot of goals: we implemented the final Android architecture, ready to be unit-tested and we created several screenlets, pretty the same you can find in the iOS version. And also it's been a great experience to Silvio because he could live the Madrid lifestyle for a month!

And finally, Silvio could pass on the baton to Javier, our new Android engineer in Madrid.

So we're all more than happy with the results. It has been a great way to make a lot of progress in the product and what is even better: build stronger links with our team mates.

We're looking forward to arrange the next Liferay's Hacker in Residence!