Hi Pete,

Liferay is one of the more important FM users today, based on the
number of FM questions on StackOverflow that are Liferay related. So
it would be interesting to know what are the top annoyances or other
improvement ideas in that particular environment. Can you tell any?


Wednesday, June 15, 2016, 4:19:18 PM, Pete Helgren wrote:

> On 6/14/2016 12:20 PM, Daniel Dekany wrote:
>> Tuesday, June 14, 2016, 1:55:05 PM, Sergio Fernández wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>> Definitively I used Freemarker much more in the past than currently,
>>> but Web development has changed a lot, moving more stuff to the
>>> frontend (10 years ago we didn't have AngularJS).
>> Yip, that's why I intend to focus on non-Web applications much more in
>> FM 3. There are some interesting challenges there. One is the common
>> need for the much smarter handling of white-space. Another is entering
>> templates in WYSIWYG editors (it has some tricky aspects). Would be
>> fun to work on those instead of fighting with FM 2 legacy.
>>
> +1
>
> Most of my involvement is from a user perspective and I really haven't
> used much template stuff in a while but in the past 4 years have worked
> with Liferay portal and they use both Velocity and Freemarker and have
> recently shifted more to Freemarker.  So after being out of the template
> arena for a while, I am back in.
>
> My Java skills aren't nearly at the level the rest of the group on this
> list has but I will try to jump in on the stuff that can fit my skill level.
>
> Pete

-- 
Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany

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