Blogs

Alexander Chow | Feb 11, 2011 10:20 PM

One of the nice things about working for Liferay is the flexibility I have in where I can work. Though originally from LA, my wife and I currently live in the UK and I work from home in the UK. ...

James Falkner | Feb 11, 2011 2:42 PM

Time for another installment of Community Roundup! I enjoy taking a tour of the Liferay Community in these blog posts, I hope you find them useful. Lots of items of interest in the last 2 weeks,...

Greg Amerson | Feb 10, 2011 10:48 PM

Hello all, Its been awhile since the last Liferay IDE release as I've been busy on some tooling for our EE customers, however, along the way I've been adding new features and improvements to IDE as...

Jonas Yuan | Feb 10, 2011 10:07 PM

Any application dealing with currency should really use the Java class BigDecimal. BigDecimal - java.math.BigDecimal - immutable, arbitrary-precision signed decimal numbers. A BigDecimal consists...

Samuel Kong | Feb 10, 2011 9:33 AM

Liferay Portal provides a WebDAV URL to all documents in the Document Library so that you can access the documents from your computer's desktop. While this is a great feature, it can be a little...

James Falkner | Feb 9, 2011 9:24 PM

Liferay East Coast Symposium 2011 Liferay's third annual East Coast Symposium (ECS) will be held in beautiful Leesburg, Virginia on May 10-11, 2011. ECS 2011 will be a great opportunity for...

Joshua Asbury | Feb 7, 2011 5:44 PM

While performing a demonstration last week, I added the Mail portlet into a user's private pages and set it up using my Gmail account. Everything went fine during the demo, but when I tried to...

Richard Sezov | Feb 4, 2011 8:56 PM

Well, we're marching right along on our way to completion. Manning has just updated the Liferay in Action MEAP with the next-to-last chapter, on Ext plugins. With this chapter, you learn all about...

James Falkner | Feb 3, 2011 10:31 PM

Make a great video and win an Amazon Kindle! Liferay is calling on YOU, the Liferay Community, to showcase your world with Liferay. Participate in Liferay's first ever community video contest, make...

Ray Augé | Feb 2, 2011 7:05 PM

This example demonstrates several advanced features of Liferay's Web Content Management provided when taking full advantage of Liferay's Web Content Template processing engine. It'll demonstrate...

Jonas Yuan | Feb 1, 2011 1:31 AM

Alfresco Enterprise 3.4 delivers social content management. This new release delivers on Alfresco’s vision of providing the open platform for social content management by delivering both a more...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jan 31, 2011 10:13 PM

Asurion Region: US Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Asurion is technology protection services leader that offers quality, next-day device replacement along with user content and software protection....

Alexander Chow | Jan 31, 2011 8:55 PM

Liferay's engineering team has been doing a lot of work on the Document Library for version 6.1. But in one of the recent weekly meetings, a discussion sparked off about the possibility of having...

Igor Spasić | Jan 28, 2011 11:18 AM

... and not a joke:) Application servers wiki document collects informations about appservers Liferay portal can be deployed to. More important are the children pages, with various tips, tweaks,...

James Falkner | Jan 25, 2011 9:27 PM

Howdy folks, time for another community roundup.. It's been an action-packed couple of weeks at Liferay. The first month of 2011 is almost over, and we're chugging along nicely. Lots of items to...

Jonas Yuan | Jan 22, 2011 12:11 AM

Service Builder is a cool tool to automate the creation of interfaces and implementation classes for database persistence, local services and remote services, like find, create, update, and delete...

Igor Spasić | Jan 19, 2011 11:41 AM

Let's read the tags content in following XML snippet: <tag>foo&amp;boo</tag> with the single call to (supposing everything is initialized correctly up to this point): xmlStreamReader.getText() We...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jan 18, 2011 9:35 PM

School Specialty Region: US Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 EE School Specialty is a educational solutions provider focused on providing creative and comprehensive tools that will help students...

Mika Koivisto | Jan 17, 2011 10:23 PM

This is a new cool feature I worked on with Brian and it’s coming on 6.1 as well as 6.0 EE SP2 and 5.2 EE SP6. With this feature you can add new struts actions to portal from a hook plugin and you...

Ray Augé | Jan 17, 2011 7:39 PM

Last week I wrote about a hook we wrote for Expandos using MongoDB. I just wanted to let you know that it just finished review and is ready for consumption. It's been renamed to mongodb-hook in...