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What we learned from "AI/ML Models Are Not Libraries" is that models are essentially collections of numbers (weights) and, optionally, mathematical formulas.

In the old days, every IT organization had a dedicated, almost sacred role: the DBA (Database Administrator), often informally known as the "Gatekeeper of the Schema."

As developers, we can immediately recognize the structure of a .csv file and how it differs from a .md one.

The first time I wanted to use a model in my own application, I expected the experience to be similar to using a library or a framework.

Three weeks ago, Adam Wathan, the creator of Tailwind CSS, released a podcast containing an honest confession – "We had six months left" – and an explanation of why they had to let some folks go.

While I’ve been focused on helping companies grow, my personal brand has taken a hit.

It is 2022, and Developer Relations (DevRel) and Developer eXperience (DevX) teams are to be found in almost any organization whose offering has anything to do (even if very little) with software developers.

I have experience with two GPS navigation systems.

At the time of writing this, the DevRel team at AxonIQ consists of four people (including me).

There are a lot of publications explaining how crucial DevRel (Developer Relations) and DX (Developer eXperience) are for software vendors.

I recently joined AxonIQ to help them evolve their Developer Relations to the next level.

Today I want to talk about something that has been bothering me for quite a while now - the side effects of how we teach people to use frameworks, libraries, tools, ...

I try hard to keep track of conferences around the world.

After several years of traveling around the world to speak at conferences, I needed a break.

I guess if you do something often and long enough, you get to experience all possible scenarios eventually.

I usually do rather technical talks around software architecture and design.

Not so long ago, I had very interesting conversation with someone who works on Java SE.

I started writing this on my way back home from Devoxx BE 2017.

You know how it goes.

The atmosphere around Java 9 (and most notably JPMS a.k.a.

I have spoken at quite some conferences over the last years.

As developer advocate, I do a fair amount of traveling.

Some time ago I published a survey asking developers what they think about OSGi.

Yesterday someone very well known and respected in Java world (I didn't ask him for permission, so I'm not mentioning his name), approached Liferay's booth at JavaOne.

I've stated that before but allow me to repeat myself: jPrime is one of my favorite conferences.

Time has come to resurrect the blog (again)!

It's been a while since my last post here.

The original purpose of CustomGlobalMarkup portlet was to provide convenient interface for adding 3rd parties javascript code (like Google Analytics, Geminus, ClickTale, Crazy Egg, ...) to every page.

I'm still getting a lot of questions about how to use the multi-device extension in Liferay 6.1.

After my "Pluggable mobile device detection" presentation during Liferay Europe Symposium a lot of people asked about the mobile device emulator I was using.

One of the problems with GWT (which is even more noticeable in portal environment) is preserving it's state between page reloads.

This is a continuation of my previous post Liferay GWT portlet - how to make it "instanceable" and use GWT RPC.

UPDATE: The extension described here targets Liferay 6.0.

Every once in a while somebody asks about writing Liferay portlets in GWT.

As soon as Liferay 6.0.5 was released I decided to adapt my plug-ins to the newest framework version.

Yep, good guess, a Java API to bluga.net webthumb in now available.

I guess every Java developer dealing with JAVA/XML serialization/deserialization knows about XStream.

What would you do if a customer demands to "integrate" his Liferay based corporate portal with Google Analytics, Geminus, ClickTale, Crazy Egg, and whole bunch of other analytics tools available out there?

This post will demonstrate how liferay-maven-sdk can be employed to build a Liferay portlet using Liferay's Service Builder feature.

It seems to get more and more cloudy in the IT world these days .

If an ATG based web application is available under few subdomains (domain.com, www.domain.com, shop.domain.com) keeping track of session cookies across subdomains may be a challenge.

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A friend of mine recently asked me about merging survey results, which reminded me I had similar problem about an year ago and have written a peace of code to solve it.