Blogs

Gwowen Fu | Oct 15, 2013 2:36 PM

I need a quick way to update 20+ permissions among 100+ permissions for each document uploaded. So this script does the job.

Martin Yan | Oct 14, 2013 4:27 PM

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." - Pablo Picasso My job as a marketer has never been more fun and challenging. The conversation in 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...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Oct 10, 2013 5:20 AM

First of all I would like to apologize to all of you who where expecting Raymond but got me instead. Sorry about that. Through the talk I did a quick summary of why modularity is important for us,...

Juan Fernández | Oct 9, 2013 3:38 PM

As I promised on my previous post (Liferay 6.2 new mobile features (pt. 1)), here’s the follow-up blog entry with a description of more features and improvements related to mobile we are going to...

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...

Eduardo P. García | Oct 9, 2013 10:09 AM

The first Liferay DevCon has just started in Berlin and we just can't wait to present the world all new features in version 6.2. So I'm writing the second part of my blog about New Ways of...

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...

Juan Fernández | Oct 8, 2013 12:11 PM

Hi community! One of the most important and remarkable improvements of the new version of Liferay Portal are the new mobile capabilities that come out of the box. We will be presenting these...

Jorge Ferrer | Oct 3, 2013 2:49 PM

Liferay's architecture is pretty lean, but there are lots of things to learn about it. What would you be interested in learning? I'm doing a talk next week in Liferay's DevCon in Berlin about...

Eduardo P. García | Oct 1, 2013 2:58 PM

Next week Liferay will hold the first Developer Conference (DevCon) in Berlin. Liferay experts from all around the world will meet up to share their experience and review the latest features of...

Jorge Ferrer | Sep 25, 2013 9:58 AM

The 6.2 release is very very close. Those who have talked with the core team about it know that we have been working hard since the 6.1 release to increase the predictability of the releases and at...

James Falkner | Sep 25, 2013 3:55 AM

You may have noticed over the weekend that Liferay released a first "Release Candidate" build named RC1. Download it here: Tomcat Bundle GlassFish Bundle JBoss Bundle Other Files Documentation...

Olaf Kock | Sep 24, 2013 2:48 PM

About a month ago I had the opportunity to talk to Jari Järvelä and Janne Hietala from Arcusys. They both head Valamis, an E-Learning solution on Liferay that later (end-of-August) won the Liferay...

Jim Hinkey | Sep 23, 2013 7:27 PM

Have you wanted to find a listing of the properties available to you via Liferay Portal's properties files? Have you wanted to view the property definitions in a nicer format, instead of as plain...

Sven Werlen | Sep 22, 2013 8:17 PM

I'd like to spend some time to present a portlet that we recently published on the Marketplace: ETL process manager. I'm sure that not everyone knows what an ETL tool is and how poweful this can be...

Olaf Kock | Sep 20, 2013 8:53 AM

You probably have heard about Liferay's DevCon that we'll have on 9.-10. October in Berlin. Here you'll have a lot of opportunities of learning about Liferay, get your opinion heard and give...

Ray Augé | Sep 18, 2013 8:20 PM

It has finally happened. Liferay is a proud member of the OSGI Alliance So what does this mean? Well, immediately it means very little, technically. However, what it means philosophically is that...

Vernon Singleton | Sep 7, 2013 4:56 PM

This release was about doing lots of hard work to get things that are just nice to have. Or rather, lots of hard work to get things to the point that you do not have to have them anymore, like...

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...

Glenn Saler | Sep 4, 2013 7:29 PM

I am excited to see that the next two upcoming Liferay LIVE webinars will be based on integrating popluar open source e-commerce platforms into Liferay. September 11th will be a LIVE session over...

Ray Augé | Sep 4, 2013 5:38 PM

Ever since the Faceted Search API came out there have been a ton of great questions about how to go about creating very specific filters. A recent one is: "find both journal-articles and only...

James Falkner | Aug 30, 2013 12:31 AM

Today Liferay announced the winners of the 2013 Liferay Marketplace App Contest, and I'm particularly happy to see so many great entries and apps in the contest! The contest entries covered a wide...

Glenn Saler | Aug 29, 2013 2:23 PM

I am currently attending the local Liferay Chicago User Group meeting which is being held at the Metropolitan Club on the 66th floor of the Willis Tower in downtown Chicago. This is my first user...

Greg Amerson | Aug 29, 2013 4:27 AM

We here on the IDE team are pleased to announce the new release of Liferay IDE: Liferay IDE 2.0 Milestone 1. Since this is an Eclipse release all you need is to use the following update site url...

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...

Jonas Yuan | Aug 23, 2013 4:36 PM

Inline editing is a quick way to update content by making changes directly. CKEditor 4 ( http://ckeditor.com) comes in the form of Inline Editing, an HTML5 feature that allows users to edit pages...

James Falkner | Aug 22, 2013 7:29 PM

I’m happy to announce that today, Liferay released the much anticipated Liferay Portal 6.1 CE GA3 release! DOWNLOADS: [Tomcat Bundle | GlassFish Bundle | JBoss Bundle | Maven Artifacts and Info |...

Ruud Kluivers | Aug 21, 2013 10:10 AM

We are drowning in a sea of email messages. Don't get me wrong I like email and can't do without. Email is great, it's quick, cheap, conveniently low threshold. Apparently it's a little bit to...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Aug 20, 2013 8:57 PM

This year I have been able to do the awesome JCrete conference. First of all I would to thanks Liferay and Jorge for letting me get a few days off and financing my trip. The conference is organized...

Jesse Rao | Aug 19, 2013 9:12 PM

We just published a new chapter in the Liferay 6.1 Development Guide on Service Builder! In this chapter, we discuss a number of ways Service Builder can help you save development time on Liferay...

Ryan Schuhler | Aug 16, 2013 10:29 PM

There is a pressing need for websites to respond to the ever-changing technology which is used to visit them. As mobile devices become more powerful and more prevalent, more and more people surf...

Ryan Schuhler | Aug 16, 2013 6:49 PM

The new trend in web design is long-scrolling pages. It allows space for cool animation and flowing content while cutting down the need for changing pages and waiting for things to load each time....

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...

Glenn Saler | Aug 14, 2013 6:48 PM

Our certified service partner, Isos Technology, has released a new blog series titled 'Practical Liferay Series'. The series focuses on tips and insights for deploying and running Liferay on a...

Jorge Ferrer | Aug 11, 2013 10:15 PM

In my previous post I convered the reasons why we decided to streamline the administration UIs of Liferay and in the process review the usability and design of the Control Panel. In that post I...

Neil Griffin | Aug 10, 2013 4:38 PM

When working with Maven profiles, sometimes you need to activate a profile when multiple conditions are true. Although the <activation> element in pom.xml lets you specify more than one condition,...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Aug 7, 2013 8:47 PM

I guess all of you already know what JRebel is so I guess it doesn't deserve an exhaustive introduction. In a few words, JRebel is a JVM agent which allows you to reload your class definitions...

Ray Augé | Aug 7, 2013 2:32 PM

Every year a project grows more complex the difficulties of managing backward compatibility become more complex. The strain imposed on APIs as time passes is tremendous. Developers want APIs to...