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Richard Sezov | Mar 10, 2011 8:28 PM

The Liferay in Action MEAP was updated today and now includes all the chapters that will be a part of the book. I still have some editing to do, but we're getting pretty close now. From the Manning...

Ronald Sarayudej | Mar 10, 2011 7:48 PM

Exercito Brasileiro Region: Brazil Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 EE Exercito Brasileiro is a government website devoted to news, recruiting, and events revolving the national army of Brazil. Their...

Bryan H Cheung | Mar 10, 2011 10:44 AM

"Rather than boring your customers to death, there is a clear opportunity to put the dull corporate website to rest. Then resurrect it as a platform for true community engagement that functions as...

James Falkner | Mar 7, 2011 4:33 PM

Hi Gang, welcome back to another edition of Community Roundup. We've had another exciting several weeks of activity in the community, culminating with the release of Liferay Portal 6 CE GA4 (also...

Jorge Ferrer | Mar 4, 2011 8:53 AM

Hey guys, I'm not very active lately due to the great growth that we are experiencing in Spain and the increasing work associated to the upcoming new version, Liferay 6.1. The reason for this blog...

James Falkner | Mar 2, 2011 5:04 PM

Recently Liferay completely an upgrade of the software that powers issues.liferay.com. We upgrade to JIRA 4.2.4, which is around 5 years newer than the one before! As you can imagine, there have...

Greg Amerson | Feb 25, 2011 9:23 PM

Hello everyone, *See Update * I just noticed that Eclipse has released Eclipse Helios SR2 (3.6.2). Also last week we released a bug fix release for Liferay IDE 1.2.1. Unfortunately I have just...

Alexander Chow | Feb 25, 2011 11:48 AM

Last year, there was a huge buzz about this new protocol call CMIS that just was released at 1.0. Much like JCR, CMIS is a protocol that allows interoperability for document repositories of...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 25, 2011 12:44 AM

The Official Portal of The UAE Government Region: The United Arab Emirates Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The United Arab Emirates (UAE) sits in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 18, 2011 1:17 AM

Careers at Total Region: France Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Total operates as the fifth largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas company in the world and is also a world-class...

James Falkner | Feb 17, 2011 5:01 PM

Yesterday we wrapped up the first sprint of the Liferay Community's 100 Paper Cuts program, and at at 80% solution rate, I'm calling it a success! A big round of applause goes to the volunteers of...

Ray Augé | Feb 16, 2011 8:52 PM

All secure RSS feeds now transparently support BASIC Authentication. The behavior is such that when you're logged in, the feeds will simply work as expected if you open them directly in the...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 15, 2011 12:23 AM

University of Eastern Finland Region: Finland Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The University of Eastern Finland stands as one of the largest universities in Finland. It seeks to be among the top three...

Alexander Chow | Feb 11, 2011 10:20 PM

One of the nice things about working for Liferay is the flexibility I have in where I can work. Though originally from LA, my wife and I currently live in the UK and I work from home in the UK. ...

James Falkner | Feb 11, 2011 2:42 PM

Time for another installment of Community Roundup! I enjoy taking a tour of the Liferay Community in these blog posts, I hope you find them useful. Lots of items of interest in the last 2 weeks,...

Greg Amerson | Feb 10, 2011 10:48 PM

Hello all, Its been awhile since the last Liferay IDE release as I've been busy on some tooling for our EE customers, however, along the way I've been adding new features and improvements to IDE as...

Samuel Kong | Feb 10, 2011 9:33 AM

Liferay Portal provides a WebDAV URL to all documents in the Document Library so that you can access the documents from your computer's desktop. While this is a great feature, it can be a little...

James Falkner | Feb 9, 2011 9:24 PM

Liferay East Coast Symposium 2011 Liferay's third annual East Coast Symposium (ECS) will be held in beautiful Leesburg, Virginia on May 10-11, 2011. ECS 2011 will be a great opportunity for...

Joshua Asbury | Feb 7, 2011 5:44 PM

While performing a demonstration last week, I added the Mail portlet into a user's private pages and set it up using my Gmail account. Everything went fine during the demo, but when I tried to...

Richard Sezov | Feb 4, 2011 8:56 PM

Well, we're marching right along on our way to completion. Manning has just updated the Liferay in Action MEAP with the next-to-last chapter, on Ext plugins. With this chapter, you learn all about...

James Falkner | Feb 3, 2011 10:31 PM

Make a great video and win an Amazon Kindle! Liferay is calling on YOU, the Liferay Community, to showcase your world with Liferay. Participate in Liferay's first ever community video contest, make...

Ray Augé | Feb 2, 2011 7:05 PM

This example demonstrates several advanced features of Liferay's Web Content Management provided when taking full advantage of Liferay's Web Content Template processing engine. It'll demonstrate...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jan 31, 2011 10:13 PM

Asurion Region: US Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Asurion is technology protection services leader that offers quality, next-day device replacement along with user content and software protection....

Alexander Chow | Jan 31, 2011 8:55 PM

Liferay's engineering team has been doing a lot of work on the Document Library for version 6.1. But in one of the recent weekly meetings, a discussion sparked off about the possibility of having...

Igor Spasić | Jan 28, 2011 11:18 AM

... and not a joke:) Application servers wiki document collects informations about appservers Liferay portal can be deployed to. More important are the children pages, with various tips, tweaks,...

James Falkner | Jan 25, 2011 9:27 PM

Howdy folks, time for another community roundup.. It's been an action-packed couple of weeks at Liferay. The first month of 2011 is almost over, and we're chugging along nicely. Lots of items to...

Igor Spasić | Jan 19, 2011 11:41 AM

Let's read the tags content in following XML snippet: <tag>foo&amp;boo</tag> with the single call to (supposing everything is initialized correctly up to this point): xmlStreamReader.getText() We...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jan 18, 2011 9:35 PM

School Specialty Region: US Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 EE School Specialty is a educational solutions provider focused on providing creative and comprehensive tools that will help students...

Mika Koivisto | Jan 17, 2011 10:23 PM

This is a new cool feature I worked on with Brian and it’s coming on 6.1 as well as 6.0 EE SP2 and 5.2 EE SP6. With this feature you can add new struts actions to portal from a hook plugin and you...

Ray Augé | Jan 17, 2011 7:39 PM

Last week I wrote about a hook we wrote for Expandos using MongoDB. I just wanted to let you know that it just finished review and is ready for consumption. It's been renamed to mongodb-hook in...

Igor Spasić | Jan 14, 2011 9:12 AM

I wrote wiki article about how to configure JAAS that uses OpenLDAP to auth users. Article also announce new feature i.e. portal property: portal.jaas.auth.type that allows JAAS to authenticate...

Jeffrey Handa | Jan 14, 2011 3:29 AM

Hey Everyone, This last year has been an exciting time to be involved in the Liferay Training Program and I wanted to let you know what we've been up to and to give you a preview of some of the...

James Falkner | Jan 13, 2011 8:29 PM

Hi all, welcome to another installment of Community Roundup! The last one was 2 weeks ago (been busy with a few other initiatives, see below), so I've got a lot to share. Once the community...

James Falkner | Jan 11, 2011 9:05 PM

Thanks to all of you, Liferay has an active and growing community that has made a lot of contributions in 2010. However, with that growth comes inevitable growing pains! One of the areas in which...

Ray Augé | Jan 9, 2011 4:06 AM

Update: The expando-mongodb-hook plugin is now committed to SVN and available from trunk. Over the past few months the hype around NoSQL type databases had really been heating up the tech news and...

Dennis Ju | Jan 5, 2011 12:05 AM

A growing number of websites are adopting OAuth to authorize third-party applications to interact with a user's resources. For example, back on August 31, 2010, Twitter flipped the kill-switch on...

Sergio González | Jan 4, 2011 5:12 PM

I want to make a quick update regarding the latest thing we've been working on: new way of publishing content with the Asset Publisher. The 'classic' way of publishing content with the Asset...

James Falkner | Dec 30, 2010 8:02 PM

Greetings from the next-to-last day of 2010. Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season! Liferay is working hard to bring you another great year of technology, innovation, and fun. I for...

Richard Sezov | Dec 27, 2010 5:45 PM

The Liferay in Action MEAP update came out on Christmas Eve, so I wanted to make sure that I let everyone knew about it in case you, like me, have been offline for the past few days. So Merry...

Shuyang Zhou | Dec 22, 2010 6:55 AM

A lot of Liferay TagLibs use including JSP files to present their content. Is there any difference between TagLib used JSPs and the normal ones? Functionally, they are the same thing. But when we...

James Falkner | Dec 21, 2010 12:08 AM

Happy Holidays from Liferay and our community! Hope everyone has a safe and fun-filled holiday season. Liferay had an exciting and fun-filled 2010. Partner program expansion, new Liferay offices...

Sten Martinez | Dec 16, 2010 11:21 PM

Often we need to display data in a legacy schema. The usual way of doing this in any other application is to set up a new datasource, optionally set up an ORM, and display the data yourself....

James Falkner | Dec 10, 2010 7:24 PM

Finally returned from Liferay's annual employee retreat! It was a fun-filled week and it's great to put a face with all the names I interact with on a daily basis. I hope to see many of our...

Brian Chan | Dec 10, 2010 6:59 PM

We decided to relax a bit Wednesday night and headed out to a Lakers game. After all, we are in LA, and we love basketball here. We had some pretty good seats. Here's a pic of Kobe laying it up....

Brian Chan | Dec 9, 2010 8:03 PM

We flew almost the whole company out to Los Angeles for our annual retreat. It's been a great few weeks of brainstorming and fellowship. If you're a Liferay user, community member, or a client -...

Barrie Selack | Dec 8, 2010 11:50 PM

Many people have asked, "How can I embed a portlet in web content". It's actually quite simple, once you know how. So I'll walk you through it. It;s done via a runtime-portlet tag. The actual...

Olaf Kock | Dec 6, 2010 2:55 PM

If you are living in a country where the ASCII character set is often almost sufficient but you need to ensure that you can handle UTF-8 well - how do you ensure that? You might not know a language...

Bryan H Cheung | Dec 1, 2010 10:07 PM

Liferay had the chance to be a platinum sponsor at the Open Source Conference 2010, organized by Red Hat and Accenture. At almost 450 attendees, it was the Benelux region's largest-ever OSS focused...

Michael Young | Dec 1, 2010 5:46 PM

Recently I needed to set up SSL in my development environment in order to debug an issue. I needed to make sure that Tomcat could serve SSL content properly As an Http client, the JVM could accept...

Alexander Chow | Dec 1, 2010 11:49 AM

In October, Apple released for OS X their latest update of Java. (There was this whole hoopla about whether or not Java would cease to exist on OS X, but then Apple announced that it would be...

James Falkner | Nov 30, 2010 8:38 PM

Despite the US Holiday, we have lots of items in this week's roundup! Finalist and Proteon hosted the fist ever Dutch Liferay Community Event on November 23 and it was a huge success. Go check out...

Bryan H Cheung | Nov 29, 2010 12:49 PM

As some of you may know, Liferay decided earlier this year to make a strategic investment in growing the European market. To that end, Joseph Shum, our former Alliance Manager for North America,...

Olaf Kock | Nov 28, 2010 12:41 PM

One of the first things I did with Liferay (years back) was the development of a custom theme. Support for this in the Plugins SDK works really smooth and theme development is well documented. One...

Bavithra Rajendran | Nov 26, 2010 5:39 AM

Desktop Gadgets are very popular and I wanted to write a simple Liferay gadget for windows 7 and at last came up with a desktop gadget that has frequently used links of Liferay. I call this as...

James Falkner | Nov 24, 2010 9:21 PM

Open source projects and products suffer from a unique problem when it comes to managing bug reports. The open nature of the community means you'll get many more excellent bugs filed as compared...

Igor Spasić | Nov 24, 2010 8:08 PM

Remember: For JSP tags with dynamic-attributes, be careful to use proper case of defined attribute names; especially if scriptlets are used as attributes values. Look at following two usages of...

James Falkner | Nov 22, 2010 3:55 PM

Updates from around the Liferay community! Don't forget to take the CMS Market Survey. It would be awesome if Liferay is well represented here. Takes about 20 minutes and can be anonymous (but if...

James Falkner | Nov 17, 2010 6:59 PM

"It's that time of year again. Digital agency Water & Stone is running its annual survey on the open source content management market. The data proceeds go to benefit the subsequent Open Source CMS...

James Falkner | Nov 15, 2010 11:15 PM

Hey gang, I wanted to update you on some recent community news and activities going on.. The Liferay Italy Symposium had over 150 attendees, thanks to those that attended. We are looking forward to...

Jeffrey Handa | Nov 12, 2010 3:09 AM

First of all, greetings to everyone in the Liferay Community. I've been lucky enough to meet many of you around the world over the last two years and I look forward to meeting more of you in the...