Blogs

Bruno Farache | Dec 30, 2007 7:00 AM

The Document Library portlet will provide document conversions in Liferay 4.4, here's a screenshot: This requires OpenOffice v2.0.3 or higher running as a service, locally or remotely. Here are the...

Minhchau Dang | Dec 26, 2007 6:59 PM

After reading through Jorge's blog post on the guidelines for Liferay contributions, and after following the link to the style guidelines on the Liferay wiki, I put together a configuration file...

Alexander Chow | Dec 19, 2007 8:59 AM

A few weeks ago I blogged about Tomcat's JNI native library. Recently, I have been at a client site trying to squeeze every bit of speed out of the servers while running on a deployment with...

Ray Augé | Dec 17, 2007 8:11 PM

Ever needed to do file content searches? NO! Then you probably aren't a programmer... j/k I frequently have to search lots of code for some pattern. You'd think this would be a trivial task, but...

Scott Lee | Dec 17, 2007 6:24 PM

So ive been tweaking with the LDAP stuff recently to make it easier for people to do LDAP integration in Liferay. We've added some default LDAP server settings (feel free to send me corrections or...

Richard Sezov | Dec 14, 2007 7:22 PM

Quietly and without much fanfare, we have released the first document in our new Liferay Documentation Project. This is because it's a rather small document, but it fills a need to have some...

Nate Cavanaugh | Dec 14, 2007 6:08 PM

So yes, there has been a long delay from the last time I blogged, but I thought I would come back with something that I have actually been asked a lot about recently, which is CSS Inheritance. I'm...

Jorge Ferrer | Dec 14, 2007 2:31 AM

One of the toughest parts of contributing to Liferay is that we are very strict with the coding and design style. We do this because we believe that keeping a very high level of consistency is what...

Jonathan Neal | Dec 13, 2007 11:52 PM

That's right, Liferay, the world's leading enterprise open source portal framework with Fortune 500 clients in the U.S. and Europe, has developed a new super easy tool that helps you write your own...

Richard Sezov | Dec 11, 2007 9:59 PM

This is a list of things I learned at the Liferay retreat. You should not give Nerf guns to developers with pent up energy from sitting around coding all the time. Pandemonium will ensue. Many...

Jonathan Neal | Dec 7, 2007 12:29 AM

In the U.S they use AIM, in Europe they use MSN, but the true and rightful King of the Instant Messaging world is still, without a doubt, ICQ. ICQ (a cleverly pronounced oronym of "I Seek You") was...

Jerry Niu | Dec 6, 2007 8:18 AM

I had the pleasure of training in Santo Domingo.

Jorge Ferrer | Dec 6, 2007 6:09 AM

Determining the best strategy for doing releases is one of the hardest challenges of developing a software product. We get lot's of feedback related to it, although it's usually in the form of...

Michael Young | Dec 6, 2007 12:34 AM

We had a long conversation at the office regarding release process, versioning, etc, that we'll be presenting at the LA retreat this year. But in a nutshell the goals were to: - increase timeliness...

Jonathan Neal | Dec 5, 2007 7:57 PM

Richard Sezov | Dec 5, 2007 5:56 PM

Okay, I couldn't resist posting this. We had our first snow in this area today (Southern New Jersey, not far from Philadelphia, PA), and it was the triple whammy of: Christmas coming Snow Getting...

Alexander Chow | Dec 5, 2007 7:32 AM

In the last few weeks I have spent quite some time trying to debug some weird problems on deployments of Liferay. Here are a few tricks that I have come across that have proven to be pretty...

Ray Augé | Dec 5, 2007 2:56 AM

Good news all you Linux Liferay users/developers! With the most recent release of Adobe Flash Player (Version: 9,0,115,0), the new multi-file uploader available in the portal now works in Linux....

Brian Chan | Dec 4, 2007 10:52 PM

4.3.5 is the latest stable and recommended production release from Liferay. Release Notes: http://support.liferay.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10014&styleName=Html&version=10260 SVN Tag:...

Michael Young | Dec 4, 2007 6:39 AM

Before I joined Liferay I used to check up on Brian's work from time to time, hoping I could somehow be a part of this small piece of software called Liferay EP. As we're approaching our 9th year...

Ray Augé | Dec 4, 2007 3:37 AM

This weekend is the annual Liferay retreat. That means that many of us are preparing to head to LA to meet and greet co-workers we don't often see in person. For my familly and I, it is especially...

Ivan Cheung | Dec 4, 2007 3:21 AM

Recently I happened across a thread where Carlos Santos Sáenz was asking about how to best set up Roles and permissions. As I attempted to duplicate Carlos' efforts, I realized that the root cause...

Brett Swaim | Dec 3, 2007 2:21 PM

What is the hardest part about programming? I've heard many suggestions by peers, bosses, employees, students and professors. I've heard algorithms, front end (html/javascript), backend (database...

Brett Swaim | Dec 3, 2007 2:21 PM

Since there are now six Liferay developers living in Columbus, Ohio Monday through Thursday I was thinking that we could start showing up the JUGs if anybody is interested. I have done quite a bit...

Brett Swaim | Dec 3, 2007 2:20 PM

When I first started at Liferay I started using Eclipse. After about six months I found the Web Toolkit for Eclipse. I used that for about a year and a half total, until I got staffed consulting...

Richard Sezov | Nov 30, 2007 3:16 PM

I've been meaning all month to get my driver's license renewed. Here in New Jersey, this is the kind of thing many people have been trained to dread. Long wait times and surly people behind the...

James Min | Nov 30, 2007 10:15 AM

In Hamburg trying to wrap up a project, and we've been working quite a lot. It's easy to forget how beautiful Hamburg is:

James Min | Nov 30, 2007 10:07 AM

Need to access session attributes from Velocity? Well, from a Velocity theme (*.vm), you can simply do something like: $request.getAttribute("USER_ID") or... ...

Brett Swaim | Nov 30, 2007 12:06 AM

I love Johnny Rockets Here is a pic of the Ohio crew in the new Johnny Rockets in CMH

Alexander Chow | Nov 28, 2007 5:15 AM

Pentaho has created a set of sample portlets for integration with a JSR-168 compliant portlet container. Though not designed explicitly for Liferay, I have started a Wiki for the installation of...

Jorge Ferrer | Nov 27, 2007 9:55 PM

It's been a while since my last post, but here I'm at it again. This will be the first of a series of posts where I plan to write about the latest improvements to Liferay as we develope them. I...

Richard Sezov | Nov 21, 2007 8:43 PM

What's this? Two blog posts within five minutes? Yes, well, I thought this would be appropriate as we are about to celebrate Thanksgiving here in the United States. I've had this hanging on my wall...

Richard Sezov | Nov 21, 2007 8:33 PM

Touch typists (like me) don't like to take their hands off the home row of the keyboard if they can at all help it. If I'm in the middle of doing something requiring intense concentration (such as...

Minhchau Dang | Nov 21, 2007 1:31 AM

In Eclipse, everything is a plugin, including the IDE itself. So, if there's something which bothers you, all you need to do is replace the plugin with something which works in a way more...

James Min | Nov 21, 2007 12:03 AM

A lot of people I run into at trainings and on consulting gigs ask this question: "How do I access Liferay via Web Services?" Well, there are 2 basic things you need: 1) A way to get the stubs...

Nate Cavanaugh | Nov 20, 2007 2:00 AM

All I have to say is wow. Pure, unadulterated WOW. I have been waiting for the iPod of books to reach us, and I truly thought it would be either Sony's Librie, or more likely Apple. But it turns...

Neil Griffin | Nov 19, 2007 7:52 PM

In recent days, some of the engineers at Liferay reported some amazing performance gains with Liferay's Ant build system by using Linux instead of Windows. Well this peaked my curiosity to say the...

Jerry Niu | Nov 19, 2007 6:37 PM

November 2007 Public Training was held in Reston, VA.

Richard Sezov | Nov 19, 2007 5:56 PM

One of the goals I set for myself with regard to the Liferay documentation was to show people how to set up Liferay for development (either core, extension or plugins) in both of the leading open...

Ray Augé | Nov 19, 2007 5:43 AM

Need a good diff tool outside of something monolithic like your IDE? Ever wanted to compare one project folder to another beyond their respective repositories? Well, look no further than "Meld"....

James Min | Nov 18, 2007 5:30 PM

My next home project will be to set up Linux Media Center Edition (MCE) which runs on top of Kubuntu. [Also a wiki here.] I've been reading up on this alternative to Windows Media...

Jerry Niu | Nov 15, 2007 11:43 PM

October 2007 Public Training was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Here are some pictures from that training.

Jerry Niu | Nov 15, 2007 7:38 PM

October 2007 Public Training was held in North Sydney, Australia. Here's some pictures of the building the training was held in. Here are some of the attendees.

Brett Swaim | Nov 13, 2007 10:12 PM

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Push mail Sync'd Calendars Sync'd Todos Sync'd Mail Sync'd Contacts I love that when somebody sends me an email, Exchange 2003 pushes said mail right to...

Brett Swaim | Nov 13, 2007 2:29 PM

So last night as I sat in my hotel room in Ohio I was reading a thread about Android, Google's open handset OS. I decided to download the SDK and give it a crack. The first things I noticed were...

Ray Augé | Nov 12, 2007 9:49 PM

Hey All, Gonna start my first post with a big thanks to everyone who worked on getting Liferay Blogging to a very usable point. Then, I have a question for everyone out there... Snippet or Full...

Jorge Ferrer | Nov 11, 2007 11:40 AM

Last week Google announced OpenSocial with an impressive set of partners including Orkut (as expected), MySpace, iLike, Flixter, Oracle, .... There were companies that had their own social network,...

Alexander Chow | Nov 11, 2007 2:01 AM

If you are running Liferay with Tomcat, you have most likely come across this annoying message upon startup: INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance... This is...

Nate Cavanaugh | Nov 10, 2007 3:04 AM

So, in an attempt to add some stuff to my blog that I think people might enjoy, I am going to write an entry every Friday, called the Friday Funkfest. What is the Friday Funkfest, exactly? Well,...

Nate Cavanaugh | Nov 10, 2007 1:34 AM

One of the most controversial things we've done for version 4.3 was to switch all of the icons to using PNG icons. This wouldn't be so bad, as IE can render PNGs with index transparency just fine....

Richard Sezov | Nov 9, 2007 9:09 PM

A couple of days ago I was humming along working happily when suddenly, doink! The power went out. It was a beautiful bright sunny day, and so I might not have noticed right away except that my new...

James Min | Nov 9, 2007 7:22 PM

And now a brand new episode of Liferay Cribs... Just kidding. But this is a non-technical blog post. For the past year and a half, I feel very fortunate to have been working for Liferay, and I'm...

Brett Swaim | Nov 8, 2007 9:58 PM

I recently had the realization that I was duplicating a certain set of code across multiple portlets. For those who know me, they will attest that my work motto is to work smart not hard. I hate...

Richard Sezov | Nov 8, 2007 6:04 PM

One of the topics I've seen over and over on the forums is confusion over the configuration of Hot Deploy in Liferay. It can be complicated, and the default configuration is not a valid one if you...

Richard Sezov | Nov 7, 2007 5:03 PM

One of the things I was looking forward to when starting with Liferay was the opportunity to work at home full time. I've worked at home in the past, but it was always on an ad-hoc basis, on days...

Craig Kaneko | Nov 7, 2007 12:42 AM

So a couple of weeks ago, Ivan and I were trying to figure out how he could let his friend hit his Liferay tomcat without having to set up a demo server or using adobe acrobat connect. Basically,...

Brett Swaim | Nov 6, 2007 6:04 PM

This is a picture of the Liferay crew that has invaded ohio. From left to right: David Rison Brett Swaim David Truong Brian Kim Sten Martinez It's getting cold!!! Notice how BKim has his ski...

Richard Sezov | Nov 6, 2007 3:50 PM

I recently got myself a nice new mono laser printer with duplexing capabilities. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a good deal on a simple mono laser printer that has duplexing built in?...

Ivan Cheung | Nov 6, 2007 9:45 AM

Remember the days of yore when the big annual college job fair came around? Hundreds of anxious students gather, holding a stack of resumes under left arm while keeping their right hand dry for...

Brian Chan | Nov 6, 2007 8:07 AM

Usually, my wife is the one who has to wait for me to get to bed while I work on bug fixes, packaging releases, or coding new features. Not this time though. It's past midnight and she's the one up...