Recently I had the opportunity to spend couple weeks in Europe. During that trip I spent some time at Liferay office in Germany. It was really nice to see my German collegues and of course enjoy some German wheat beer and Apple Wine which is typical for the region.

I also spent some time in Finland and was able to visit both family and friends. Also had some beer with my few friends from Logica. From Finland I went to Sweden to speak at the very first Liferay Nordic Symposium but before going there I spoke at Warm-up Cruise arranged by Liferay partner Ambientia. Check out Ambientias blog post and my presentation on SAML.  You can also check out my presentation on Liferay Nordic Symposium: Developing Liferay Plugins with Maven.

I'm pleased to tell you that my employer Logica Finland has become Liferay Service Partner. This is really important to me since I'm the one that has been pushing Liferay as our preferred portal. This is also good news to Logica customers since now they can buy Liferay support and services from Logica.

It's the end of my over seven year career at Logica and start of a new one at Liferay. It has been really great working in the Digital Media unit at Logica Finland but now new challenges awaits me as I move to Germany starting from monday when the moving truck is picking up all my possessions and start heading to Langen, Germany. On Wednesday morning (Apr 1st) I'm due to start working as Senior Consultant for Liferay GmbH. I wish all the best to all my colleagues at Logica.

I'll report back later on all the things involved in getting settled to Germany.