Liferay Presentation and Path Finder 5

Tonight I will give a presentation about Liferay on the Pasadena JUG. It will tackle how to setup a website using Liferay 5.1.2 including creating your own plugins using the Plugins SDK.

When I started using a Mac with OS X I had a lot of problems with the Finder. Changing to the Mac was mostly easy and provided a lot of useful tricks to speed up tasks on a Mac. That said this did not apply to the Finder and even today I end up with gazillions of Finder Windows when I finally shut down the Laptop. Briefly I had a look at Path Finder 4 but this version had not enough added value for its prize tag. A few days ago I saw that Cococatech released version 5 of Path Finder. This time it seems way much better than the earlier version and includes a lot of useful features. This includes:

• Drop Stack to park items temporarily
• Dual Pane (hello from the old Norton Commander)
• Customizable Favorites Bar
• Path Bar enabling to move back the tree with a single click
• Info / Preview Pane available
• Integrated decompression tools (Stuff, Zip, BZip, GZip, etc)
• Go to folder dialog to move around like on the command line
• Integrated Terminal
• Creation of a File from within (and special support for Text / HTML files)
• Path Finder Desktop to replace Finder with Path Finder (but 5.0 version seems to be buggy and 5.0.1 I did not test yet)

I just started to use it and so far it seems to be a little bit overwhelming. Still I like it a lot and I am looking forward to buy it if it fits into my daily business and I think I know that when the 30 days trial is over.

So Good-bye Finder and Hello Path Finder - Andy