Blogs

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...

Olaf Kock | Jul 4, 2013 2:19 PM

Please welcome yet another return guest, Milen Dyankov, a fellow trainer and senior consultant in Liferay. Milen has been participating in episode 9 and he has been the original contributor of the...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Jul 4, 2013 11:31 AM

Monitoring JMX data has been always a painful process, especially in production systems where the ability to open ports and/or allow certain kind of traffic is kind of "complicated". Thanks to...

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...

Sachin Dhus | Jul 2, 2013 7:57 AM

Few steps for creating your own tomcat bundle from Liferay Source. Extract plain tomcat . Rename apache- tomcat-7.0.23 to tomcat-7.0.23(tomcat-[version]). Download/checkout liferay source from...

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...

priti parmar | Jun 28, 2013 7:31 AM

create a ServicePreAction, which will create a new custom NavItem object and a change in navigation.vm of the theme, which will show the custom navigation. Here are the steps to create the custom...

priti parmar | Jun 28, 2013 7:19 AM

Liferay 6.1 provides Custom Fileds for Pages , set viewCount as a Custom Field and update it using a servicePreAction Hook. public class CustomServicePreAction extends Action { /** * This...

priti parmar | Jun 28, 2013 7:14 AM

PART 1: SETTING UP SOLR with TOMCAT Step 1: Download Solr. It's just a zip file. Step 2: Copy from your SOLR_HOME_DIR/dist/apache-solr-1.3.0.war to your tomcat webapps directory:...

Glenn Saler | Jun 27, 2013 5:25 PM

Liferay's Hamilton office has now officially been open for about 4 weeks and we have had some great visitors. Starting this summer I will be inviting more of our certified Liferay Service Partners...

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...

Olaf Kock | Jun 24, 2013 10:36 AM

Please welcome a return guest, James Falkner, Liferay's Community manager. I got him on to talk about the changes in the upcoming symposium's structure, but we continued with conversations about a...

Ryan Schuhler | Jun 21, 2013 11:55 PM

Want a quick and easy way to make a sticky nav right out of the box with liferay? Thanks to AUI with 10 lines of code you can turn your navigation bar into a sticky nav. This is especially useful...

Mika Koivisto | Jun 18, 2013 10:25 PM

We've finally released both CE and EE versions of Liferay 6.1 GA3 and along with those releases we've also released the corresponding versions of Liferay Maven Support and Portal artifacts. The...

Olaf Kock | Jun 17, 2013 8:24 AM

I took some time to speak to Jorge Ferrer, Liferay's VP of Engineering about all things Engineering and Development in Liferay. This time I'm not starting with butchering names, but positions....

Manuel de la Peña | Jun 14, 2013 10:25 AM

Hi all! This is my third blog post about Continuous Integration best practices, and today I want to explain the benefits of being patient after sending commits for being reviewed. As developers, we...

James Falkner | Jun 11, 2013 4:14 PM

What's the time? It's time to get ill, with another Community Roundup! The Liferay Community has done some amazing things these last few months since the last roundup, and so here we go with...

Glenn Saler | Jun 8, 2013 2:20 PM

Recently I began to blog about some of our partners activites out in the "real" world including several marketplace applications that they are currently developing. Today I would like to point out...

Glenn Saler | Jun 6, 2013 5:50 PM

We have some awesome certified partners and I want to start pointing out some of the great stuff they are doing including marketplace applications that they are starting to upload for community...

Vernon Singleton | Jun 4, 2013 9:09 AM

Yay! For those of you egg heads who have been wondering where the support for Context and Dependency Injection is, well this is your day. Liferay now has support for your favorite annotations...