Blogs

Samuel Liu | Jul 13, 2010 10:09 PM

Moved to the Liferay Community Wiki

Zsolt Berentey | Jul 13, 2010 1:24 PM

Social Equity is a brand new feature in Liferay version 6. It is based on the white paper and calculations of Peter Reiser from SUN Microsystems. The objective is to build a dynamic social capital...

Juan Fernández | Jul 13, 2010 10:28 AM

Hi guys! One of the many great improvements of Liferay 6 is the workflow system, as many of you already know. We have been working hard on it and we have developed lots of new functionallities that...

Sergio González | Jul 13, 2010 7:22 AM

Liferay 6 offers a new functionality to easily manage sites and pages by using templates. New templates can be designed in Page Templates and Site Templates sections in Control Panel....

Samuel Liu | Jul 12, 2010 11:57 PM

I wanted to write an easy installation guide among other things. This is how to install Liferay's Tomcat Bundle on your system and to get it running with ease. Linux & OSX 1) Download and install...

Greg Amerson | Jul 12, 2010 2:03 PM

As as follow-up to the Helios compatible release of Liferay IDE (v1.0.1), I wanted to let everyone know that there is another installation method now available through the Eclipse marketplace. The...

Greg Amerson | Jul 9, 2010 7:54 PM

The Eclipse Helios release has been available for a couple of weeks now so I wanted to let everyone know that we just released a new update to the Liferay IDE (v1.0.1) in order to support it . ...

Shuyang Zhou | Jul 8, 2010 6:30 AM

Liferay is heavily using Spring's aop. Spring's aop is doing an amazing job to make your life easy by making your code clean. So why i am creating something new, if the exist one is good enough?...

Shuyang Zhou | Jul 7, 2010 6:26 AM

If you have read my previous blog, you must already know StringBundler. StringBundler can improve your String processing performance a lot, but it is still not enough. Now answer this question: In...

Shuyang Zhou | Jul 5, 2010 8:05 AM

2010's benchmark and optimization is reaching the end, it is time to write something about what we did in last few months. Today we will talk about an EE-only feature, a new ehcache cluster...

Julio Camarero | Jul 3, 2010 10:12 AM

Yes, you can! We have seen lately many people asking about this in the forums and several projects. Liferay 5.2 uses uses jQuery 1.2.6. and many people wonder if they can use a different version...

Michael Young | Jul 1, 2010 11:28 PM

In an earlier post I demonstrated how to add OpenSocial Gadgets as first-class citizens within Liferay. In this post I'd like to show you how we have created a custom preferences UI. This sample...

Joshua Asbury | Jun 30, 2010 3:22 PM

I'm a fervent reader of business books and blogs. Seth Godin is one of my favorites, and in a recent post entitled "A Sad Truth About Most Traditional B2B Marketing", his wisdom shines through. ...

Thiago Leão Moreira | Jun 28, 2010 4:52 AM

Caros Brasileiros, É com alegria e satisfação que lhes comunico que a tradução do Liferay para a língua Portuguesa variação Brasileira foi revisada e corrigida manualmente todas as suas 5000+...

Ray Augé | Jun 22, 2010 9:57 PM

I haven't been blogging as much as I'd like... My return to core after a long year+ on a project hasn't turned out quite the way I had envisioned. (Don't get me wrong, I'm SOOOO happy to be back;...

Manish Kumar Gupta | Jun 16, 2010 10:40 AM

Thanks to our ever growing community of Liferay translator, Liferay now has translation available for 34 languages out of the box. The latest addition is Hebrew (Israel) language. Here is the...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jun 15, 2010 7:28 PM

Wolong Electric Group Co,.Ltd Region: China Version: Liferay Portal 4.3 Wolong Electric Group Co.,Ltd is located in Shangyu economic development zone laid in Zhejiang Hangzhou Bay in the center of...

Greg Amerson | Jun 15, 2010 4:09 PM

Now that Liferay 6.0 RC2 is available, we just released version 1.0 of the Liferay IDE. Thanks to everyone that has been waiting patiently. I know that I promised it last month so I hope it was...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jun 14, 2010 11:24 PM

Xiamen C&D Corporation Limited Region: China Version: Liferay Portal 4.3 Xiamen C&D was set up in 1980 with the establishment of Xiamen Special Economic Zone. After enduring in the market for more...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jun 14, 2010 6:12 PM

Scientix Region: Europe Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Scientix – the community for science education in Europe – was created to facilitate regular dissemination and sharing of know-how and best...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jun 14, 2010 5:40 PM

Cloud Commons Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.2 Cloud Commons is a dynamic and practical community about the cloud. Cloud Commons provides the opportunity to network with a global...

Brett Swaim | Jun 9, 2010 9:26 PM

After viewing Bruno's blog, I decided to show it at ECS during two of my presentations. There are some changes though in trunk, and I wanted to make sure to reflect those changes to you all....

Brian Chan | Jun 8, 2010 12:03 PM

Just released Liferay Portal 6 RC 2. We are very close to getting the GA now. We had originally scheduled to make this the GA, but our release team wanted to make one more round of releases. We're...

Michael Young | Jun 3, 2010 10:40 PM

Liferay 6 will feature an OpenSocial container based on Shindig. OpenSocial Gadgets present as first-class citizens via the "Add Application" menu, just like portlets. To configure a Gadget in...

Ray Augé | May 30, 2010 4:00 AM

When working with Liferay, sometimes you might encounter classpath issues during ant builds. I have a little trick which may help. It's a small bit of xml that you can add to a target which dumps a...

Ronald Sarayudej | May 27, 2010 5:16 PM

EA Sports - FIFA Online Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 EA SPORTS FIFA Online offers an authentic football experience with 30 licensed leagues, 500 clubs and more than 15,000 players. The...

Ronald Sarayudej | May 27, 2010 12:29 AM

OnStar Region: USA With more than two million subscribers, OnStar is the leading provider of telematics services in the United States. Telematics is the transmission of data communications between...

Ronald Sarayudej | May 27, 2010 12:08 AM

Calgary Parking Authority Region: Canada Version: Liferay Portal 5.0 The Calgary Parking Authority is an innovative team of individuals who fulfill the City of Calgary’s parking mandates and...

Ronald Sarayudej | May 26, 2010 11:54 PM

TrueBlue Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.2 TrueBlue is JetBlue's reward points program. By joining, you can earn Award Travel, access special features on jetblue.com and be among the first...

Ray Augé | May 19, 2010 3:09 PM

I use Git and VI(m) quite a bit, and in the Liferay project the source format rules define that leading whitespace character is tab (with potentially trainling spaces before the rest of the line in...

Ray Augé | May 14, 2010 9:14 PM

I was looking for a way to add as much relevant info about my Liferay git repository to my prompt as would not slow it down to much, cause I hated having to constantly do git branch/status to find...

Manish Kumar Gupta | May 11, 2010 1:00 PM

The registration or create account portlet in Liferay portal can be customized to add/remove some of its field without any coding. This blog explain some of these customization properties which...

Bryan H Cheung | May 6, 2010 8:24 AM

It's been an incredibly busy first half of 2010 and I haven't had as much time to blog as I'd like to. With new offices in Budapest and Brazil, rapid sales growth and rapid product releases,...

Brian Chan | May 5, 2010 9:46 AM

We recently installed 100 custom built Hudson test servers at our colo facility. They are maxed out on the RAM, have the fastest quad core available, and the second generation Intel SSD hard drives...

Greg Amerson | Apr 30, 2010 7:42 PM

Hello everyone, **Update: fixed video links, also you may want to check out the newest blogs related to the IDE, here and here ** Right now we are targeting the release of Liferay IDE 1.0 to be May...

Bijan Vakili | Apr 30, 2010 2:03 PM

Service Level Agreement Tool1 adds the following information to the tooltip for issues links in JIRA: SLA countdown and deadline for active tickets1 Last user to comment on ticket Date of last...

Ray Augé | Apr 29, 2010 8:12 PM

Quite a while ago I wrote an article on Liferay's Expandos (on top of which our Custom Attributes (Custom Fields) are built), using the WCM as the runtime for a small app called First Expando Bank....

Carolina Moreno | Apr 27, 2010 8:06 AM

Please, find the English translation of this post at the bottom Slides from the event are now also available for download. --------------------------------------------------------------...

Michael Saechang | Apr 26, 2010 11:11 PM

Last week we had a casual game night to relieve some stress and to become more familiar with the new faces in the LA office. The night was organized by our very own JR Houn. Thanks JR! We had a...

Jorge Ferrer | Apr 26, 2010 2:49 PM

This is the first post of what I hope will become a series of posts asking for feedback on some of the new features that will be including in Liferay 6. What we are hoping for right now is comments...

Brian Chan | Apr 25, 2010 10:32 PM

I barely made it to the Spain Symposium one hour before the event was supposed to start because of the chaos from the Icelandic ash cloud. But I'm glad I made it there safely. The event was very...

Jorge Ferrer | Apr 23, 2010 4:38 PM

No se me ocurría un título mejor que simplemente "Gracias". Gracias en primer lugar a todos los que habéis hecho el primer Symposium en España una realidad, empezando por Carolina sin la que...

Juan Fernández | Apr 22, 2010 10:24 AM

Hi guys: when you start developing in Liferay you notice that there are many modules and libraries in its core, but there are not accessible from everywhere. I recently found a problem developing...

Joshua Asbury | Apr 21, 2010 3:47 PM

Our friends at Sesame Street continue to reach out to children in new and innovative ways. Last year, they won an Emmy Award for their use of new media, and they have recently introduced a couple...

Brian Chan | Apr 21, 2010 9:01 AM

Just released Liferay Portal 6 RC. It inclues a ton of bug fixes, included more of the plugins (workflow, etc.) that were not ready during Preview, and the new 7Cogs sample data. Go here for a full...

Julio Camarero | Apr 21, 2010 8:17 AM

Hi Everyone, it's been more than a month since episode 1 about accessibility improvements. It's not because we didn't have anything to tell, it's just because we didn't have time to do it... but...

Wan Gavin | Apr 21, 2010 3:10 AM

使用lucene中文分析器 替换 Liferay 默认的StandardAnalyzer（一元分词）提高中文检索的质量。 portal-ext.properties #lucene.analyzer=org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.StandardAnalyzer 可选中文分析器...

Manish Kumar Gupta | Apr 18, 2010 8:00 AM

Quick reply in message board is another new feature in Liferay 6.0. If you download latest trunk and look at the message board, you will find a new link names "Quick Reply" along with "Reply" and...

Nidhi Singh | Apr 16, 2010 8:36 AM

Download ApcheDS and install it http://archive.apache.org/dist/directory/apacheds/stable/1.0/ Download LDAP browser and Install it http://jxplorer.org/downloads/users.html Input Users in LDAP...

Nate Cavanaugh | Apr 14, 2010 3:00 PM

What is an Alloy widget? A widget is something that does some sort of task. Like what, you might ask? For instance, in Alloy, there's a TreeView widget, where you can configure it to display an...

Paul Hinz | Apr 13, 2010 4:24 PM

Liferay Platinum Partner CIGNEX (www.cignex.com) will be sharing their experiences on Open Source Content Management solution adoption at the First International Workshop on Free / Open Source...

Manish Kumar Gupta | Apr 12, 2010 12:06 PM

One of the good news for Liferay users from India is the addition of Hindi translation in upcoming Liferay 6.0. With this addition, Liferay is now translated in total 32 languages. Althought,...

Manish Kumar Gupta | Apr 7, 2010 10:02 AM

One of the new feature in the upcoming Liferay 6.0 is the notion of a Team. A community or organization can now group a set of user and create a team. The notion of a team is somewhat similar to a...

Joshua Asbury | Apr 6, 2010 6:50 PM

TechCrunch published an interview with Mark Andreessen about how enterprise software is on the cusp of a renaissance. Silicon Valley is cheering. Jobs will be created. Innovations will be the...

Ronald Sarayudej | Apr 1, 2010 4:38 PM

Barcelona Institute of Architecture Region: Spain Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The Barcelona Institute of Architecture (BIArch) is an international institution set up to further interaction between...

Ryan Park | Mar 30, 2010 8:59 PM

This is a short 2 step (rather large step) tutorial on how to implement a way to upgrade your Portlets using hooks and Liferay's UpgradeProcess. I'll also assume that you've created your portlet in...

Michael C. Han | Mar 25, 2010 11:17 PM

With the upcoming 6.0 release, you will see many product engineers announce cool new features. Unfortunately, LDAP integration is neither cool nor new. However, in 6.0, we have improved the...

Carolina Moreno | Mar 25, 2010 6:24 PM

GMV , openTrends and CDTEC have joined the partner network of Liferay during January and February to offer Services in Spain. WideScope has has also joined this network to provide services in...

Jorge Ferrer | Mar 25, 2010 6:20 PM

First of all, a disclaimer for those of you who don't speak Spanish. I will keep writting most of my posts in English, but this one is about our very first Symposium in Spain so I thought it was a...

Nate Cavanaugh | Mar 24, 2010 3:39 PM

I mentioned last time that I would talk about the IO Plugin that we have that makes one of the most common tasks of updating content. So first, I'll show you how to use it, then we'll talk more...