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Dave Truong | Feb 2, 2017 8:09 PM

A search for a better SDK A little over a year ago, the Dev Tools Team began a new project hoping to fix the issues we encountered with the Plugins SDK. We had just finished modularizing our...

David H Nebinger | Feb 2, 2017 6:14 AM

When you start reviewing Liferay 7 CE/Liferay DXP code, you run into a lot of annotations in a lot of different ways. They can all seem kind of overwhelming when you first happen upon them, so I...

David H Nebinger | Feb 2, 2017 5:10 AM

Alt Title: Cool things you can do with OSGi Introduction So one thing that many organizations like to stand up in their Liferay environments is a "health check". The goal is to provide a simple...

Javeed Chida | Jan 30, 2017 4:43 PM

Let me begin by clarifying that this post has nothing to do with the Harry Potter universe. But seriously. You know what I mean by wizards, don’t you? Those helpful series of screens that gather...

Jan Eerdekens | Jan 23, 2017 8:46 PM

I've been working with Liferay for quite some time now, but I must confess that I still haven't really made the switch from Velocity to Freemarker for my templates. Even though I know there are a...

Javeed Chida | Jan 19, 2017 11:19 PM

This short post brings together the little pieces critical to crafting an ADT in velocity to provide direct download links to documents in your Documents and Media repository. You will find parts...

David H Nebinger | Jan 18, 2017 5:30 PM

So in a recent project I've been building I reached a point where I believed my project would benefit from being able to issue user notifications. For those that are not aware, Liferay has a...

Neil Jin | Jan 12, 2017 4:51 PM

The purpose of this tutorial is to let you know how to involve a 3rd part js lib in metal soy portlet and how to use them in ES6 script. In Liferay DXP we provide abundant OOTB js lib to help...

David H Nebinger | Dec 30, 2016 4:11 AM

So recently I was asked, "How can panels be removed from the My Account portlet?" It seems like such a deceptively simple question since it used to be a supported feature, but my response to the...

David H Nebinger | Dec 21, 2016 4:59 AM

Recently I was working on a fragment bundle for a JSP override to the message boards and I wanted to wrap the changes so they could be disabled by a configuration property. But the configuration is...

Greg Amerson | Dec 13, 2016 4:34 AM

Hello all, First off I wanted to let everyone know that we have released a new milestone for Liferay IDE 3.1 You can install it into your Eclipse using below updatesite below:...

Olaf Kock | Dec 9, 2016 3:55 PM

Once again: Devcon is over (actually, for quite a while now) and it's time to look back. If only because the Recap site is public. You can now watch the video recordings of presentations that...

Javeed Chida | Dec 8, 2016 5:42 PM

(or) Why categories are so much more than nestable tags "I LOVE tags," Jaffer managed despite a mouthful of spiced lamb ouzie. Sergei was finding the younger guest a bit annoying. The kid had...

David H Nebinger | Dec 6, 2016 5:07 PM

So the Liferay workspace is pretty handy when it comes to building all of your OSGi modules, themes, layout templates and yes, even your legacy code from the plugins SDK. But, when it comes to...

Eduardo P. García | Dec 2, 2016 12:53 PM

One more year, it's been great to meet many of you at our events. This time I dedicated one of my workshops to the migration of 6.2 plugin projects to Liferay 7.0. I knew that some of you had...

Lauri Hiltunen | Nov 22, 2016 6:28 AM

Software should be modular. It has been a core thought of developers and architects for quite a long time. The microservices style of development and deployment is a thing now, and different...

Koen Olaerts | Nov 21, 2016 7:38 PM

At Coin we have developed SimpleEdit, a new and improved way for editing your documents stored in Alfresco or Liferay. Now that Liferay has moved on to DXP, we are in the process of upgrading...

Javeed Chida | Nov 11, 2016 4:18 PM

In my last technical post titled Content SEO - Hidden in Plain Sight, I exposed a caveat in the way the title of a content item is auto-crafted by Liferay. Here’s an excerpt from that article,...

Fabian Larroca | Oct 31, 2016 1:57 PM

Build Around MDX I cannot make the case to encourage you to write MDX. It's a complex query language, underutilized, supported by major vendors*, but after 20 years of existence still struggle to...

Dave Truong | Oct 19, 2016 8:20 PM

I mentioned last time in The State of Maven Development, that we were missing a few items for our Maven users. Well I have good news... You can now build themes in Maven! In pom.xml: <build>...