Do you know there are several ways when building a mobile application connected to the Liferay portal platform. Considering which of these ways to go always depends on the exact customer needs, the project characteristics and also on development team skills. This webinar shows how to benefit from AngularJS competence and build hybrid mobile app that integrates your Liferay Portal. We demonstrate how you can develop on one codeline and built your apps for the major mobile platforms such as Android and iOS with minimal effort using the Ionic framework. We present capabilities of such approach…

This is a re-post from my personal blog. It was a lazy evening, I was watching some video from ng-conf when suddenly Miško Hevery dropped one line which captured my attention and pushed my understanding of what the future holds for us. Despite all the hate and anger, Angular 2.0 is here to stay. Well at least for some time… If you want your code to be worthy of fabled Angular 2.0 you have to use the best available ingredients. You will need ES6 and most probably also the newest incarnation of TypeScript too… Actually need is maybe a bit too strong word for the occasion because Angular 2.0 can…

Alberto Martínez Ballesteros explains the integration of elasticsearch in a Liferay Portal, an innovation for which mimacom earned the Liferay Innovation Award in 2014, a price awarded by the german Liferay community. The volume of data is growing faster. Elasticsearch is a powerful search engine and data analyzer which provides an extraordinary experience for the user. The elasticsearch index is the basis for the improvement of functionalities, such as autocomplete, synonyms and geo location search. Nowadays, advanced analytics and data visualization can be executed with tools like Kibana,…

Stock price variabilities are nowadays even more affected by positive and negative news. New media channels like Twitter, Facebook, Finance Pages and News Pages, make the news rapidly available and accessible for everybody. It is an enormous amount of distributed data (Big Data), which could no longer be evaluated by a single individual. Powerful and lots of hardware along with suitable systems are needed to gather and interpret this mass of data. With Spring XD (Extreme Spring Data), such a system for big data interpretation and analytics is available. The aim of Spring XD is to facilitate…

Especially when joining projects for a second release with already existing functional design specifications (FDS), it may well be that user stories are not what they should be. With much room for interpretation they might not be clear, easy to understand or even complete. The impact is an additional (unexpected) effort with all further consequences and discussions between the customer and the contractor about what has and what hasn't been offered. But why is it like that? If you have ever asked yourself one of the following questions: "What is a user story?", "How can I write one?" and…