Radio Liferay

For the annual Liferay Retreat, I was in L.A. again and took the opportunity to record several new episodes - this one as the first OpenAir recording. This also marks the advent of my new recording gear - expected to raise audio quality quite a bit. In this session I talked with Bradley Wood. Brad is Frontend developer - involved in all things theme, CSS, Velocity. And he's maintaining a nice tumblelog with all kinds of Frontend tipps & tricks for Liferay (which brought him on my radar for the podcast). Among other topics we talked about: * Getting theme custom settings (e.g. color picker) through the API - now standardized and extended due to popular demand * How Sass add power to CSS with variables (integrated in Liferay 6.1) * Compass, a library of Sass functions with vendor specific CSS3 * Brad's style for creating a new theme, starting from photoshop, through CSS and Velocity * Parts of adopting a Look&Feel might involve hooks to change the core Liferay JSPs * Using str