I've finally replaced my Wordpress blog with Liferay. This is something I've wanted to do for long time and now I think Liferay's blog portlet is good enough to do it. The CMS has been superior for quite sometime. The site a little bit under construction still but I've brought the most popular posts. If you want to comment you must create an account but it's really simple and fast if you have Facebook account or OpenID. 

Here's a post I made to my Liferay blog on how to cluster Liferay with Terracotta.

My review copy of Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Intranets from Packt Publishing was waiting for me at my desk in June already but haven't had time to go through it until now. Thanks again Packt for providing the opportunity to review their books.

Book details:
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
Pages: 692
Release date: May 7, 2010
ISBN: 1849510385
ISBN 13: 978-1849510387
Author: Jonas X. Yuan
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches

This book is an updated version of Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets which was written for Liferay Portal 5.2. The book has been reorganized and has doubled in the number of pages from the first one. This book is targeted to beginners and portal administrators. Notice the difference: Portal administrator is the person responsible of composing the portal pages where as system administrator is responsible of installing, configuring and tuning of the portal. The book introduces you to the terminologi used by Liferay portal as well as to many of the features Liferay has. Overall Jonas has done a good job with the book and it provides you a starting place to learn to use Liferay Portal.

Now if you are looking to become a Liferay expert the fastest route there is through Liferay trainings. Liferay has great trainings that will teach you hands on to use Liferay the way it was intended.

You might also be interested in the authors blog post about the book and my previous book reviews.

I was recently contacted by Packt Publishing if I would be interested in reviewing Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Intranets. Of course I say yes and now I'm eagerly waiting for my review copy to arrive any day now. Here's the details of the book if you want to get your copy.

Book details:
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
Pages: 692
Release date: May 7, 2010
ISBN: 1849510385
ISBN 13: 978-1849510387
Author: Jonas X. Yuan
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches

The new GateIn portal was released few days ago. I’ve been following both JBoss Portal and eXo Platform for many years now. Both of them have been quite static and haven’t done much innovation on their portal products for years sure both were JSR-286 compliant. When I first heard that eXo and Jboss will be combining their forces to come out with a new portal product that would challenge the market, I was expecting something amazing and completely different.

After downloading it and playing around with it for a while I was quite disappointed. So I decided to dig little deeper and go through the user guide and reference documentation. Didn’t find anything mind blowing or amazing there either. What I found nice was the existence of up to date documentation and Gadget server.

I won’t start comparing GateIn with Liferay because the comparison wouldn’t be fair to GateIn. I will continue to see if will truly become a market challenger and actually do some innovation for a change.