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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...

Richard Sezov | Nov 21, 2007 8:33 PM

Touch typists (like me) don't like to take their hands off the home row of the keyboard if they can at all help it. If I'm in the middle of doing something requiring intense concentration (such as...

Minhchau Dang | Nov 21, 2007 1:31 AM

In Eclipse, everything is a plugin, including the IDE itself. So, if there's something which bothers you, all you need to do is replace the plugin with something which works in a way more...

James Min | Nov 21, 2007 12:03 AM

A lot of people I run into at trainings and on consulting gigs ask this question: "How do I access Liferay via Web Services?" Well, there are 2 basic things you need: 1) A way to get the stubs...

Nate Cavanaugh | Nov 20, 2007 2:00 AM

All I have to say is wow. Pure, unadulterated WOW. I have been waiting for the iPod of books to reach us, and I truly thought it would be either Sony's Librie, or more likely Apple. But it turns...

Neil Griffin | Nov 19, 2007 7:52 PM

In recent days, some of the engineers at Liferay reported some amazing performance gains with Liferay's Ant build system by using Linux instead of Windows. Well this peaked my curiosity to say the...

Jerry Niu | Nov 19, 2007 6:37 PM

November 2007 Public Training was held in Reston, VA.

Richard Sezov | Nov 19, 2007 5:56 PM

One of the goals I set for myself with regard to the Liferay documentation was to show people how to set up Liferay for development (either core, extension or plugins) in both of the leading open...

Ray Augé | Nov 19, 2007 5:43 AM

Need a good diff tool outside of something monolithic like your IDE? Ever wanted to compare one project folder to another beyond their respective repositories? Well, look no further than "Meld"....

James Min | Nov 18, 2007 5:30 PM

My next home project will be to set up Linux Media Center Edition (MCE) which runs on top of Kubuntu. [Also a wiki here.] I've been reading up on this alternative to Windows Media...

Jerry Niu | Nov 15, 2007 11:43 PM

October 2007 Public Training was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Here are some pictures from that training.

Jerry Niu | Nov 15, 2007 7:38 PM

October 2007 Public Training was held in North Sydney, Australia. Here's some pictures of the building the training was held in. Here are some of the attendees.

Brett Swaim | Nov 13, 2007 10:12 PM

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Push mail Sync'd Calendars Sync'd Todos Sync'd Mail Sync'd Contacts I love that when somebody sends me an email, Exchange 2003 pushes said mail right to...

Brett Swaim | Nov 13, 2007 2:29 PM

So last night as I sat in my hotel room in Ohio I was reading a thread about Android, Google's open handset OS. I decided to download the SDK and give it a crack. The first things I noticed were...

Ray Augé | Nov 12, 2007 9:49 PM

Hey All, Gonna start my first post with a big thanks to everyone who worked on getting Liferay Blogging to a very usable point. Then, I have a question for everyone out there... Snippet or Full...

Jorge Ferrer | Nov 11, 2007 11:40 AM

Last week Google announced OpenSocial with an impressive set of partners including Orkut (as expected), MySpace, iLike, Flixter, Oracle, .... There were companies that had their own social network,...

Alexander Chow | Nov 11, 2007 2:01 AM

If you are running Liferay with Tomcat, you have most likely come across this annoying message upon startup: INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance... This is...

Mark Wong | Nov 10, 2007 3:55 PM

So we've been operational for a little over two months now and this is how we do it over here at the Liferay Dalian Office. First we work hard: Then we play hard: Want to join us? ...

Nate Cavanaugh | Nov 10, 2007 3:04 AM

So, in an attempt to add some stuff to my blog that I think people might enjoy, I am going to write an entry every Friday, called the Friday Funkfest. What is the Friday Funkfest, exactly? Well,...

Nate Cavanaugh | Nov 10, 2007 1:34 AM

One of the most controversial things we've done for version 4.3 was to switch all of the icons to using PNG icons. This wouldn't be so bad, as IE can render PNGs with index transparency just fine....

Richard Sezov | Nov 9, 2007 9:09 PM

A couple of days ago I was humming along working happily when suddenly, doink! The power went out. It was a beautiful bright sunny day, and so I might not have noticed right away except that my new...

James Min | Nov 9, 2007 7:22 PM

And now a brand new episode of Liferay Cribs... Just kidding. But this is a non-technical blog post. For the past year and a half, I feel very fortunate to have been working for Liferay, and I'm...

Brett Swaim | Nov 8, 2007 9:58 PM

I recently had the realization that I was duplicating a certain set of code across multiple portlets. For those who know me, they will attest that my work motto is to work smart not hard. I hate...

Richard Sezov | Nov 8, 2007 6:04 PM

One of the topics I've seen over and over on the forums is confusion over the configuration of Hot Deploy in Liferay. It can be complicated, and the default configuration is not a valid one if you...

Richard Sezov | Nov 7, 2007 5:03 PM

One of the things I was looking forward to when starting with Liferay was the opportunity to work at home full time. I've worked at home in the past, but it was always on an ad-hoc basis, on days...

Craig Kaneko | Nov 7, 2007 12:42 AM

So a couple of weeks ago, Ivan and I were trying to figure out how he could let his friend hit his Liferay tomcat without having to set up a demo server or using adobe acrobat connect. Basically,...

Brett Swaim | Nov 6, 2007 6:04 PM

This is a picture of the Liferay crew that has invaded ohio. From left to right: David Rison Brett Swaim David Truong Brian Kim Sten Martinez It's getting cold!!! Notice how BKim has his ski...

Richard Sezov | Nov 6, 2007 3:50 PM

I recently got myself a nice new mono laser printer with duplexing capabilities. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a good deal on a simple mono laser printer that has duplexing built in?...

Ivan Cheung | Nov 6, 2007 9:45 AM

Remember the days of yore when the big annual college job fair came around? Hundreds of anxious students gather, holding a stack of resumes under left arm while keeping their right hand dry for...

Brian Chan | Nov 6, 2007 8:07 AM

Usually, my wife is the one who has to wait for me to get to bed while I work on bug fixes, packaging releases, or coding new features. Not this time though. It's past midnight and she's the one up...

Brian Chan | Nov 5, 2007 8:06 PM

4.3.4 is the latest stable and recommended production release from Liferay. Release Notes: http://support.liferay.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10014&styleName=Html&version=10250 SVN Tag:...

Minhchau Dang | Nov 3, 2007 12:47 AM

The nice thing about Liferay's drag and drop layout is that you (usually) don't have to remember any of the portlet ids. At least, until you do. If you skim through portal.properties, there's a set...

Craig Kaneko | Nov 2, 2007 10:16 PM

I figured out how to do this when I was testing the message board subscriptions and the web form portlet. Configure your ROOT.xml to look like this: <Resource ...

James Min | Nov 2, 2007 10:02 AM

A common question and topic when I do training or work on support cases, is, "What is the right way to do inter portlet communication in Liferay?" Well, there is no "right way" to do this. At least...

Louis Mui | Nov 2, 2007 12:34 AM

Imagine this: (remember this is just a re-enactment, names have been changed to ensure privacy) It is Friday night and you are heading over to the friend's house, let's call him... Ryan Cheung, to...

Richard Sezov | Oct 31, 2007 10:02 PM

While it's nice to blog about some of the tools I use (see the below posts on VirtualBox and the Lomboz plugin for Eclipse for more info), I figured I should probably mention some of the stuff I'm...

Jorge Ferrer | Oct 30, 2007 11:39 AM

My previous post had much more success that I had ever imagined, which is good because it means that there is a lot of interest in the community to have a better wiki portlet. Also one of my...

Alexander Chow | Oct 30, 2007 8:45 AM

Most engineers in Liferay, Inc. happen to be Windows users. Me, I've got one of the few MacBook Pro's in the company. Ever since I joined the company in May 2005, I have used Macs to do my...

Richard Sezov | Oct 30, 2007 12:09 AM

My operating system of choice happens to be Mandriva Linux. Currently, I am running the Mandriva Linux 2008 Power Pack release. I have been running Mandriva since the dawn of time in Linux...

Michael Young | Oct 29, 2007 8:38 PM

I've been thinking a bit about the different technologies available to those thinking about integrating external applications into portal environments. One of the most requested questions we get in...

Dave Truong | Oct 29, 2007 7:00 PM

Our blogs has finally gotten a second look and I'm glad. Blogs should be improved tredmendously and already I see people commenting on people's blogs. Hopefully the response to blogs will be as...

Jorge Ferrer | Oct 29, 2007 1:20 PM

It's no big secret that Liferay's bundled wiki is one of the most often criticized. And I can understand it. For example, when you first add the portlet you get a view that looks nothing like a...

James Min | Oct 29, 2007 11:25 AM

I have a dual-boot setup on my machine Ubuntu Linux / Windows XP and I often access my Linux Ext3 partitions from Windows using this tool: fs-driver.org/ It's the most simple thing you can...

Nate Cavanaugh | Oct 29, 2007 1:02 AM

This post is a bit tardy only because the past couple of days have been pretty backed up, but the last day of the conference was one of the better ones. I'll go through the sessions that I was able...

Richard Sezov | Oct 28, 2007 2:54 AM

I've used the Lomboz plugin now to create several portlet projects for Liferay, and it's worked out very well. For those who don't know what the Lomboz plugin is, it's got a rich history. It used...

James Min | Oct 27, 2007 4:05 PM

I wrote a new wiki because I saw some gripes in the forums. wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Getting_Started_with_Liferay I think though, that more people want a guide on how to just start setting up...

Edward Shin | Oct 26, 2007 6:19 PM

I needed to upload some docs to our Document Library today, so I decided to give WebDAV a try instead of uploading each document one by one. I heard that our WebDAV implementation was buggy, so I...

Nate Cavanaugh | Oct 26, 2007 6:08 AM

So, day 2 of the ol' AJAX Experience. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend many sessions today, due to having to reschedule doctors appointments, navigate the trickeries of booking hotels (which...