Episode 3 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Nate Cavanaugh,  Liferay's Director for UI Engineering about AlloyUI, the switch from jQuery

We spoke about these topics - and probably more:

• Liferay's UI history
• Javascript, Drag&Drop positioning of portlets on page
• The introduction of jQuery in Liferay and the standardization on it in 5.1
• The reason behind the switch to YUI and AlloyUI (also here)
• Delivery of AlloyUI from Yahoo's servers
• Nate and Eduardo Lundgren working with the Yahoo Team
• The Liferay AlloyUI team (Eduardo, Nate, Bruno Basto, Ilyian Peychev, John Mak)
• Learning AlloyUI. Start with yuilibrary.com (then change Y to A)
• Namespacing and Sandboxing in AlloyUI
• JSP Taglibs for AlloyUI, TagBuilder
• YUI documentation builder
• Liferay IDE and Developer Studio, Greg Amerson
• Looking forward: AlloyUI will be the UI library of choice for 6.1 - no changes planned ;-)
• jsrosettastone - translating jquery to yui. And another version for jquery to AlloyUI on github
• Oh, and Olaf is learning english again: Capitalization
• AlloyUI is on github, help, participation and pull requests are welcome
• Erik Andersson (honorable mention)