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Edward Shin | Feb 12, 2008 12:28 AM

1-action-forward - Contains the basic files needed to display a JSP. Describes key aspects of the core files. 2-tiles - Covers tiles, adding the portlet to a category and internationalization....

Nate Cavanaugh | Feb 12, 2008 12:18 AM

People seemed to like the "hey buddy, want to hear a secret?" nature of my last post, and in that tradition, I will try to drop some tips about some of the lesser known ways of playing around with...

Ray Augé | Feb 11, 2008 7:35 PM

Sometimes you want some ability to tweak your Liferay theme at runtime... Note: Don't do this when you are packaging a theme for public consumption. It's very easy to add some "on-line"...

Ray Augé | Feb 11, 2008 7:18 PM

Many people ask how to build portlets which display Flash (SWF) content in the portal with options for changing and controlling that content. Well, you don't have to build a portlet to handle this....

Jeffrey Young | Feb 11, 2008 6:37 PM

Chinese New Year started last Thursday but is still in full effect. I wanted to make sure I got to wish everyone who celebrates this holiday a wonderful rest of the holiday. Enjoy family, eat...

Ray Augé | Feb 11, 2008 5:02 PM

I know the title should probably read "What's new in 4.4.0", or even "4.4.1" (which was just released). But, we've made so many fixes after those two releases that it's worth it to skip right ahead...

JR Houn | Feb 8, 2008 11:34 PM

I'm not sure if everyone out there surfing the interwebs has noticed, but we've been quietly releasing a lot of really, really cool themes recently. As a relatively non-technical person, the...

JR Houn | Feb 8, 2008 1:29 AM

Pass. Fail. Pass. Fail. Fail. Pass. These words have just about defined the testing I've been doing over the past couple weeks. If perhaps by some galactic anomaly you haven't noticed, Liferay has...

Brian Chan | Feb 7, 2008 1:07 AM

Our recent announcement about jQuery caused a lot of confusion among the JSF camp because it seemed to contradict another announcement we made a few months ago concerning ICEfaces. So this blog is...

Jonathan Neal | Feb 6, 2008 11:53 PM

What is Milli Vanilli theme making? According to Jonathan Neal's Alliterated Dictionary of Natural Selection it is "The act or process of designing admirable and successful graphical interfaces for...

Nate Cavanaugh | Feb 4, 2008 9:11 PM

Have you ever wanted to plugin to Liferay's javascript functions, but didn't want to modify the original Javascript, and didn't want to branch off of it? I know I have. For instance, let's say that...

Brian Chan | Feb 1, 2008 6:30 PM

In 4.3.x, our out of the box Glassfish bundle was over 220 megs and only worked on Windows. In 4.4.x, with the help of Raju from Sun, we were able to create bundles for Glassfish around 135 megs in...

Bruno Farache | Feb 1, 2008 4:17 AM

I always thought that it would be very nice if we could compare text files in the document library portlet, just like we developers do with different versions of source code. I finally implemented...

Nate Cavanaugh | Jan 26, 2008 2:39 AM

A few months ago, Peter "The Man" Shin started working on a new theme for Liferay, called, appropriately enough, Desktop. Yes, I know we already had a theme called Desktop, but to be honest, it...

JR Houn | Jan 26, 2008 12:17 AM

I don't think I have ever run into anyone who had a love for tests. And if I by some way I am suffering a form of amnesia and HAVE met someone who loved tests I would have derided and mocked that...

Brian Chan | Jan 25, 2008 8:30 PM

Enhancements include: An improved User and Organization System Users can now be members of more than one Organization Locations are now an Organization Type Roles can now be scoped by Organization...

Jerry Niu | Jan 25, 2008 12:55 AM

This is an OLD one. September 2006 Public Training was held in Los Angeles, CA

Jerry Niu | Jan 25, 2008 12:19 AM

January 2008 Public Training was held in Los Angeles, CA.

Jonathan Neal | Jan 24, 2008 11:45 PM

My Liferay. Part 1. Handball Haiku. the liferay weather, it's showering handball games, small ball, big ball, fun. My Liferay. Part 2. A Plural People. Here at Liferay I'm thunderstruck by the...

Richard Sezov | Jan 23, 2008 9:15 PM

First of all, a belated Happy New Year! This is my first blog post in the new year (and in the new theme), and I'm excited about what I have to report. Last night I finally finished the first draft...

Jorge Ferrer | Jan 19, 2008 2:28 PM

Happy new year everybody!! It's been a while since my last post and this will be a very short one. All I wanted to do is let everyone interested know that I'm working on improving the wiki again....

Michael Saechang | Jan 18, 2008 12:43 AM

While I was surfing the Wiki I found a distress signal coming from a discussion within an empty article. It was a Liferay user calling out for help. Bchan gave me a crash course in PHP portlets and...

Nate Cavanaugh | Jan 15, 2008 8:44 PM

I don't know how Bryan Cheung does it. I believe he flew over 100,000 miles last year, and I'm really quite surprised he's still sane. Why do I say that? Because if any of his trips are anything...

Alexander Chow | Jan 15, 2008 9:34 AM

After several months in the working, we finally got Liferay's Document Library compliant to WebDAV Class 1, per RFC2518!! It is still not Class 2 compliant, meaning locking does not work (and that...

James Min | Jan 7, 2008 7:19 PM

I haven't had 3 solid weeks off in a while, and let me tell you. I enjoyed every minute of it. But I'm back to work today and actually, it feels good too. I love working at Liferay and it really...

Jonathan Neal | Jan 3, 2008 7:43 PM

From the makers of the world's leading enterprise open source portal framework, Liferay is proud to introduce MySpace by Liferay, a Google Gadget, part of Liferay's growing implementation and...

Nate Cavanaugh | Dec 31, 2007 2:58 AM

It's been exactly 10 years since I got my very first computer, which was on Christmas of '97, and was a $400 dollar IBM clone, running Windows 95. I didn't even know how to change my wallpaper, or...

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...

Shepherd Ching | Nov 25, 2007 2:36 PM

Inside public men toilets at Dalian city of Mainland China, you may read this sign when you stand in front of urinal. 向前一小步, 文明一大步 One small step forward, one giant leap for civilization ...

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...