Blogs

Ray Augé | Feb 7, 2013 7:29 PM

Ok, so don't. This doesn't mean you can't gain advantage of Liferay. Also, what follows is not just a story about Sharepoint. If you have any HTML site of any kind you can gain advantages from...

Djalma Araujo | Feb 6, 2013 11:23 PM

During a joint meeting in Liferay Brazil, Fernando Areias had an idea of being able to deploy (portlets, themes, etc.), or any component of the SDK derived directly from the Finder by selecting one...

James Falkner | Feb 6, 2013 6:30 AM

Ding dong! The witch is dead! Which old witch? The 7Cogs witch! [EDIT: Part II covers additional stuff beyond this post!). This isn't news anymore - Starting with 6.1, Liferay replaced the sample...

Ray Augé | Feb 5, 2013 4:44 AM

Liferay has been slowly integrating an OSGi framework into it's core; not in the sense that Liferay will nessecarily run "within" an OSGi runtime itself (there are arguments for doing that, and...

Eduardo Lundgren | Feb 5, 2013 12:47 AM

For years Alloy has been known as the JavaScript Framework behind Liferay. This was great, because it's helped the project to grow a lot, but at the same time, it has restricted the project to a...

Bruno Farache | Feb 4, 2013 10:52 PM

We just released updates to Sync Android and iOS! This update includes some nice features: Renaming of files and folders Upload and deletion of multiple files Mark files as favorites for offline...

Milen Dyankov | Jan 22, 2013 11:05 PM

The title will probably make some people argue that it was never gone on the first place. That's true. But there are some resources out there trying to convince you that User and Power User roles...

Jorge Ferrer | Jan 21, 2013 10:04 AM

Here I am again with another in the series about Liferay's architecture. If you haven't read them yet, the four previous entries covered: Overview, Services Layer, Web Services and Service Builder....

Olaf Kock | Jan 17, 2013 10:06 PM

This is another episode recorded at the European Symposium 2012 in Wiesbaden. Zsolt Balogh, head of Liferay's Support for the EMEA reason talks about the pain points that led to developing a custom...

Neil Griffin | Jan 16, 2013 8:08 PM

I really enjoyed the JSFCentral Interview by Kito Mann. The podcast was posted on December 06, 2012. Some of the topics we discussed: Liferay Portal Liferay Faces JSR 329 CDI

James Falkner | Jan 16, 2013 7:16 PM

One of Liferay's key strengths has always been its flexibility. This stems from Liferay starting out as a consultant-based, services-oriented company. Every customer had different requirements...

Milen Dyankov | Jan 14, 2013 10:24 PM

Ever wandered what it takes to build a product like Liferay? Let me show you in a ... very visual way. Please sit comfortably and watch how the time flies (not to mention the developers) and...

Minhchau Dang | Jan 9, 2013 8:24 PM

Many years ago, Liferay's build validation was only getting started and so JSP pre-compilation related slowness wasn't a big deal (I think it was really only used during the distribution process)....

Zeno Rocha | Jan 9, 2013 4:48 PM

Today, Paul Miller released a nice list of the ”Most active GitHub users”. People started to talk about it and suddenly I received a lot of congratulations messages for being the #50 most active...

James Falkner | Jan 8, 2013 8:07 PM

Everyone knows of Liferay's flagship software product, Liferay Portal, but Liferay actually develops and releases many other products in the Liferay ecosystem. At any one time, development is...

Minhchau Dang | Jan 5, 2013 1:53 AM

Once upon a time, a long time Liferay user decided to upgrade from an old version of Liferay (Liferay 6.0 GA2) to a new version of Liferay (Liferay 6.1 GA2). They performed this upgrade by shutting...

Jorge Ferrer | Dec 26, 2012 1:02 PM

One of Liferay's "secret" ingredients, specially with regards to its architecture, is Service Builder. This is the tool that glues together all of Liferay's layers and that hides the complexities...

Jorge Ferrer | Dec 26, 2012 12:04 PM

It's taken a little longer than planned due to Liferay's annual company retreat and the engineering retreat we did along with it, but here I am with the third entry in the Liferay's Architecture...

Greg Amerson | Dec 24, 2012 4:22 AM

Just before the holidays I'd like to let everyone know about the two most recent releases of Liferay developer tooling. Back in November, we released a bug-fix release of Liferay IDE version...

Olaf Kock | Dec 22, 2012 5:05 PM

New year's resolution: Publish more podcast episodes. Let's start - Happy New Year, wishing you all the best for 2013... This is a solo episode with yours truly. I had a lot of fun preparing and...

Neil Griffin | Dec 21, 2012 2:52 PM

Note: This blog post has been moved to the Liferay Faces Wiki.

James Falkner | Dec 18, 2012 9:58 PM

What do you think? This refrain is commonly found in forum posts, emails, and other postings throughout our community, both from employees of Liferay and its wider open source community. It's...

Ronald Sarayudej | Dec 15, 2012 12:09 AM

Multiple offices, catching up on life and Liferay Every year, we gather all the ranks of Liferay worker bees from across the universe, via planes, trains, and cars, so we can take part in what is...

Neil Griffin | Dec 4, 2012 8:07 PM

On December 11, 2012 Liferay released the 2nd General Availability (GA) release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.1-ga2 (JSF 2.0/2.1 + Liferay 6.1.x) Liferay Faces 3.0.1-ga2 (JSF 2.0/2.1 +...

Olaf Kock | Dec 1, 2012 2:52 PM

Yes, I know. I didn't keep my previous promise to quickly follow up with the next episode. Thus, I'm not promising again, only revealing that I'm planning to be quicker in future. This is another...

Ronald Sarayudej | Nov 30, 2012 1:39 AM

Liferay.com is getting a facelift. Fresh theme, content, re-flowed flows - the whole 10 yards (why would anyone want to go only 9 yards, when it doesn't even get them a 1st down?). And we're not...

Ken Dong | Nov 27, 2012 10:28 PM

Some of you who may have been to this year's North American Symposium you may have heard Bryan Cheung share about our partnership with an Inner City Organization called World Impact. Here's a...

Jorge Ferrer | Nov 22, 2012 4:13 PM

Here I am again for a second entry on the series of Liferay Architecture. This time I'm going to talk a bit more about the services layer of Liferay. As can be seen in the architecture diagram with...

Joshua Asbury | Nov 21, 2012 2:56 PM

In response to some of the recent happenings at HP with the purchase of Autonomy, TechCrunch has released its verdict that "The enterprise software space is a giant, stinking mess." Frankly, I...

Olaf Kock | Nov 13, 2012 3:25 PM

If you're coming to the italian symposium, why not come to the community meetup the night before. All the details are in the italian usergroup's messageboard and wiki. Presenze presunte il...

Jorge Ferrer | Nov 12, 2012 6:08 PM

Hey guys, As you have already heard we have done quite a few symposiums during October, starting with the one in San Francisco, followed by Germany and finishing with Spain. And by the way, if you...

Ronald Sarayudej | Nov 9, 2012 10:07 PM

In a previous blog post we mentioned that we are currently upgrading the Liferay.com site. We wanted to share more about that process in hopes that it'll be helpful to other Liferay users who want...

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 31, 2012 9:37 PM

Here in the LA office we don't officially do anything special for Halloween, but lots of people still dress up in costume anyway... which almost makes it funnier. Here are a few snapshots from the...

Neil Griffin | Oct 31, 2012 3:04 PM

Liferay has entered into a new technology partnership with PrimeTek Informatics, maker of PrimeFaces. Customers who have purchased Liferay EE and PrimeFaces PRO now enjoy the benefit of a...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Oct 25, 2012 3:09 PM

A few minutes ago I have finished my talk about Liferay, modularity and OSGI at the Spain symposium. I am pretty sure I have covered the main points I have planned before the talk but I have many...

James Falkner | Oct 24, 2012 4:19 PM

I believe it's really important in any community to give credit where credit is due, whenever possible. When you give, even if you don't expect monetary or other material reward, it's nice to be...

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 18, 2012 7:21 PM

Godzilla not included Coming to a mobile device near you Things have been going fairly well in converting the Spain Symposium website into a mobile-friendly experience. The goal is to give our...

Neil Griffin | Oct 17, 2012 4:33 PM

UPDATE: 10/30: Congratulations to the London Java Community and to CloudBees! And thanks to everyone who voted for Liferay. UPDATE 10/19: Liferay Sr. Software Architect Ray Augé spoke on behalf...

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 13, 2012 12:17 AM

Things are chugging along here on the webteam side - there's nothing better than getting a lot of work done and it also being Friday @ 5pm. Not everyone gets a chance to visit the Magical Kingdom...

Ray Augé | Oct 11, 2012 10:36 PM

I had planned to speak at this years North American Symposium about our ongoing work with OSGi. However, sadly due to several different factors that didn't happen. It's too bad because as it turns...

Ray Augé | Oct 11, 2012 9:55 PM

At this year's Liferay North American Symposium I did a talk on Big Data. The goal of the talk was to illustrate some cases where Liferay and the broad notion of "Big Data" intersect. Most...

Ray Augé | Oct 10, 2012 9:45 PM

I'm almost back home from San Francisco after yesterday's completion of Liferay's 2012 North American Symposium. I'm quite exhausted but what a great event to be a part of. For this small town...

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 10, 2012 9:12 PM

Sometimes lightning strikes. Sometimes lightning strikes twice. And sometimes lighting strikes a bunch of times while you're already busy with the Liferay North America Symposium and a pending...

Olaf Kock | Oct 8, 2012 10:48 AM

If you are attending this year's european symposium, make sure to be one night early. As last year, we'll have a community meetup the night before. As we have a new venue this year, the meetup will...

Richard Sezov | Oct 5, 2012 10:31 PM

Since we haven't been announcing it much, you're probably unaware that we've recently started making weekly updates to the Liferay documentation. This is one of the reasons we haven't published the...

Cody Hoag | Oct 4, 2012 1:44 PM

It's finally here! OpenSocial gadgets is the next great topic now residing in Liferay's Development Guide. Gadgets are similar to portlets because they can be added to your portal's pages and used...

Jeffrey Handa | Oct 4, 2012 5:01 AM

By now, everyone in the Liferay community has probably heard about Liferay Marketplace and hopefully many of you are getting excited about developing and deploying your own apps to the Marketplace....

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 3, 2012 9:27 PM

Hi. Well, guess who else uses Liferay? Liferay! Duh! Well, not totally "duh". It may be obvious that we use Liferay... but how do we use it? How does our business operate with Liferay products,...

James Falkner | Sep 26, 2012 5:17 PM

If you are attending this year's Liferay North America Symposium in two weeks in San Francisco, on Sunday evening (the evening before the event begins) Liferay is hosting a community meetup. This...

Manuel de la Peña | Sep 25, 2012 6:19 PM

Transcribo en esta entrada de blog unos pensamientos de hace unos días, espero que alguien pueda aprovechar algo de ella: "Bueno, aquí estoy otra vez al teclado, deseando que el sentido de estas...

James Falkner | Sep 25, 2012 2:49 PM

Hey all! As your community manager, I am always trying to learn from you as much as possible, in order to make our community a better place to share ideas, meet new people, and generally grow the...

Cody Hoag | Sep 17, 2012 6:32 PM

The Knowledge Management team is pleased to bring an extensive guide for one of Liferay Developer Studio's newest features: Kaleo Designer for Java. The Kaleo Designer for Java facilitates back-end...

Julio Camarero | Sep 14, 2012 4:30 PM

Did you know it is possible to create a plugin to extend an existing plugin? This is a great feature of Liferay plugins that I usually tend to forget but it has been available since 4.3. If you...

Jeffrey Handa | Sep 13, 2012 5:00 PM

Hello Belgian community members. I'll be in Brussels and would like to get together with any interested members of the Liferay community on Tuesday, September 18th. We'll meet at the Brussels...

Julio Camarero | Sep 11, 2012 9:42 PM

I have started playing with device detection when coding Liferay apps and I have found very useful the Device API in Liferay 6.1. This API allows you to detect the capabilities of the device...

Carolina Moreno | Sep 7, 2012 11:49 AM

Si te mueves en el mundo de la tecnología y de internet, la respuesta a estas preguntas es “sí”, con mucho mayor motivo que en anteriores ediciones del evento. Es el encuentro más importante de...

Alfredo Del Castillo Villalba | Sep 5, 2012 9:07 AM

¡Buenos días a todos! Mi primera entrada en los blog de Liferay va dedicada a hablar de sendas novedades disponibles ya para el uso de todos los usuarios de Liferay. En primer lugar, hablare de la...

Greg Amerson | Sep 4, 2012 11:08 AM

Today we are pleased to announce the latest release of Liferay Developer Studio version 1.6.0. Here on my blog I usually just cover Liferay IDE releases, so just to bring everyone up to speed,...

Neil Griffin | Aug 31, 2012 1:17 PM

The new location for downloading Liferay Faces artifacts (JARs, WARs, etc.) is Maven Central. As part of the migration of Liferay Faces from portletfaces.org to liferay.com, the...

Jorge Ferrer | Aug 31, 2012 10:05 AM

While many people have already find out by themselves I think it's about time to make it official: Liferay's source code is now at GitHub. That includes all of the projects: Liferay Portal Liferay...