Blogs

James Falkner | May 20, 2014 2:25 PM

UPDATE: Liferay Cloud Services has a new name! See this blog post for details on Liferay Connected Services! Today we are announcing an open Beta of Liferay Cloud Services! If you're interested in...

James Falkner | May 13, 2014 2:30 AM

As part of my community party planner role at Liferay (aka community manager), I try to get out and meet many of you at industry and Liferay conferences and other events. I think it's really...

Dániel Kocsis | May 8, 2014 7:00 AM

The more refined staging along with Liferay Portal 6.2 has been out for a while and you might have read Mate Thurzo’s great blog entries about the topic, yet I think it is also worth the time to...

Jeffrey Handa | May 6, 2014 8:50 PM

Summer is almost here and for students around the world that means one thing, final exams. For most of us, final exams are but a distant memory that we’re only too glad to be done with. As...

Paulo Fernandes | Apr 23, 2014 8:49 PM

Hi guys Recently I created programmatically a post on the Message Boards Portlet and I would like to share this knowledge with you. The following code retrieve all categories from the Message...

Ankit Srivastava | Apr 3, 2014 1:52 PM

In this blog, I am listing the steps to configure SSO in Liferay with OKTA using SAML 2.0 protocol. OKTA is an enterprise grade identity management service, built from the ground up in the cloud....

James Falkner | Mar 31, 2014 7:59 PM

Today Liferay released the first version of the Liferay Mobile SDK! [Download | Documentation | Project Page] The Liferay Mobile SDK makes it super-easy for mobile developers to integrate mobile...

Cleydyr de Albuquerque | Mar 18, 2014 3:44 AM

Recently, Liferay Brazil decided to start the Employee Volunteer Plan (EVP) in its office. As you have learned, its a project to sponsor employee participation in social causes for which he or she...

James Falkner | Mar 18, 2014 1:54 AM

The Liferay Marketplace has come a long way since opening its doors in August 2012. Since then it has grown almost 5x in number of apps and has registered more than 600 developers from over 25...

Michael C. Han | Mar 6, 2014 2:14 PM

There has been a tremendous lack of understanding around what Liferay means by "hot deploy" and "auto deploy". Most people get the two concepts confused, believing them to be one and the same. In...

Vicki Lea Tsang | Mar 3, 2014 11:15 PM

Today we have released Sync Desktop 1.2 for Mac, Windows and Linux (Beta), providing users easy access to their Liferay Portal 6.2 document repositories right from their desktops. Downloads for...

Neil Griffin | Feb 27, 2014 8:31 PM

On March 1, 2014 Liferay released the 1st Milestone of Liferay Faces 4.x: Liferay Faces 4.2.0-m1 JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 *NEW* Release Notes Liferay Faces 4.1.0-m1 JSF 2.1 + Liferay Portal 6.1...

Edward Shin | Feb 27, 2014 12:07 AM

The Liferay team is pleased to announce the release of the Liferay worldwide public training tour! Training provides opportunities to learn the latest tips and best practices for the management,...

Neil Griffin | Feb 18, 2014 3:20 PM

On February 15, 2014 Liferay released the 5th General Availability (GA) version of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.2.4-ga5 JSF 2.1 + Liferay Portal 6.2 *NEW* Release Notes Liferay Faces 3.1.4-ga5...

Paulo Fernandes | Feb 14, 2014 3:33 PM

In my experience working with Liferay projects, the most used component is Web Content, not only the Basic Web Content. A lot of times the customer needs to create a structure and a template to...

Bruno Farache | Feb 14, 2014 11:35 AM

Dear Liferay developers, we're pleased to announce the release of Liferay Mobile SDK 1.0 beta! At Liferay, we have a team of engineers focused on developing native mobile apps and we've learned a...

Vicki Lea Tsang | Feb 11, 2014 11:45 PM

For the past few weeks, the Social Office team have been working very hard to bring you a version of Social Office compatible with 6.2. I’m very happy to announce that it is now available for...

Paulo Fernandes | Feb 3, 2014 2:25 PM

Antes de começar, quero avisá-los que colocarei o nome em inglês do portlets para facilitar o entendimento do artigo. Como na maioria dos portais de notícias você precisa de uma estrutura diferente...

Sampsa Sohlman | Feb 3, 2014 11:23 AM

One of the current front-end trends is seems to be AngularJS. Last week we had HelsinkiJS Meetup and again there were couple presentations talking about AngularJS. Our Developer Unconfrence at...

Iliyan Peychev | Jan 27, 2014 9:18 AM

The previous versions of Liferay Portal already supported RTL (right-to-left text) in limited way, but since we started the development cycle of Liferay 7.0 we really wanted to improve it. In front...

Nate Cavanaugh | Jan 10, 2014 8:18 PM

With the release of Liferay 6.2, there have been a few questions regarding Bootstrap as well as general theme changes, and I'd like to take a minute to go into more details about what we've added,...

Igor Beslic | Dec 27, 2013 11:45 AM

Hi all, recently our team finished the first real-world OAuth case, so I'll share with you code and knowledge you would probably need if you choose Liferay OAuth Plugin. Architecture Our case...

Beatriz Escobar | Dec 16, 2013 4:13 PM

La situación económica actual potencia la necesidad de las organizaciones de ser capaces de cambiar rápidamente, para dar respuesta inmediata a los cambios del entorno –tanto previstos como...

Máté Thurzó | Dec 3, 2013 6:05 PM

The Liferay 6.2 CE and EE is now officially out with tons of new features and new look including some long anticipated staging features as well. What are these features? User interface changes The...

Vicki Lea Tsang | Oct 11, 2013 7:15 PM

We are pleased to announce the release of Social Office 2.1 EE on Marketplace. Since our first release of SO 2.0 last year, we have been steadily working towards refining the features to provide...

Jeffrey Handa | Oct 9, 2013 1:11 PM

(We’re offering a worldwide Liferay Certification promotion October-November! See below for details.) Since the launch of the Liferay Certification Program, I’ve had many people ask me what’s the...

Manuel de la Peña | Oct 8, 2013 1:43 PM

Hello Continuous Readers! I'm here again to share a new CI practice in a very small pill. Do you remember a time when you had some tests that continuously failed, and nobody had bandwith to work...

Neil Griffin | Sep 6, 2013 6:09 PM

On September 5, 2013 Liferay released the 4th General Availability (GA) release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.3-ga4 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.1.x -- including 6.1.2 CE and 6.1.30 EE) Liferay Faces...

Jeffrey Handa | Sep 4, 2013 10:54 PM

If you’ve been around the Liferay community for any length of time you’ve probably heard some discussion about Liferay offering a certification. It’s something that we’ve wanted to do for quite a...

Manuel de la Peña | Aug 27, 2013 6:39 AM

Hello my friends! Here I'm again after a long time without writting about CI in Liferay. If you remember my last post, it described the importance of reverting those commits that break the build as...

Iliyan Peychev | Aug 15, 2013 1:20 PM

AlloyUI is the engine which drives the UI of all Liferay products. Since it was created in 2009, it has grown really fast and we are very close to the point where we will release ver. 2.0. We will...

Bruno Farache | Aug 5, 2013 12:22 PM

We just released a new update for Sync Android and iOS! The most important improvements are: Browse files while you are offline Move folders and files Performance boost While you are online,...

Manuel de la Peña | Aug 1, 2013 10:24 AM

In this blog post I want to talk about developers mentality, about how they (we) create software that never fails, and brights more than the sun, and is faster than a jet plane... or not? No,...

Máté Thurzó | Jul 25, 2013 11:01 AM

Staging is one of the unique fetaures of the Liferay portal, serving customers to be able to handle their content across the portal. The feature has been around for a while, and was always a...

Sergio González | Jul 17, 2013 12:33 PM

Lately I have been working on a new feature that many users have asked for a long time and Liferay didn't support it (yet). As most of you know, friendly URLs are very important nowadays for...

Manuel de la Peña | Jul 9, 2013 3:24 PM

I love that picture! Imagine yourself any Friday, at the end of your day-work. You look at the CI server and, unluckily, it is broken. You have only three options: Resign yourself that you will be...

Ryan Schuhler | Jul 5, 2013 2:30 PM

Hello, My name is Ryan and I work at Liferay. I am currently on the web team at Liferay and have the unique opportunity to both use Liferay's software as customer and collaborate with all the...

Ruud Kluivers | Jul 2, 2013 7:57 AM

This is an adaptation of a blog I wrote for Wolters Kluwer March 2011. Everyone knows that data and information are subtly different things. Data is worthless unless it can be turned into...

Ruud Kluivers | Jul 1, 2013 9:45 AM

Twenty years ago, June 1993, Adobe introduced its Acrobat software for creating and viewing electronic documents. I was one of the ‘lucky’ IT journalists to be invited by Adobe’s PR agency to...

Milen Dyankov | Jun 27, 2013 2:32 PM

As you probably know in version 6.1 Liferay introduced the mobile device rules feature. However if you haven't followed the discussions and presentations about it, you may be under the wrong...