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Cleydyr de Albuquerque | Feb 10, 2015 6:43 PM

Last January 31, the Alcides do Nascimento Community Library was born with the help of EVP and helpful people with strong beliefs in doing good. History In 2011 at the metro train, I met a former...

David H Nebinger | Feb 9, 2015 3:45 AM

Introduction Vaadin 7 is an active project still in development. New releases come out regularly with bug fixes (mostly browser compatibility). New versions come out with new functionality, etc....

David H Nebinger | Feb 9, 2015 1:47 AM

Introduction So the last few Vaadin posts were on some basic introductory stuff, but not a whole lot of fun. I thought I'd do a blog post on a quick and fun little Vaadin 7 portlet, one that uses...

David H Nebinger | Feb 6, 2015 2:52 AM

Introduction Wow, been staying up late cranking out some Vaadin blogs. It's starting to catch up with me, but I have one more to add to the pile - Theming. Vaadin Themes in Liferay Vaadin in the...

Travis Cory | Feb 5, 2015 10:39 PM

TL;DR Understanding the purpose and goals of your client will help you develop meaningful and efficient code. Focus on one task at at time. Approximate reading time: 3 minutes As a consultant here...

Abhishek Jain | Feb 5, 2015 6:40 PM

Hello Liferay community! We're pleased to announce a new training offering called Production Readiness on our course calendar, and this is the perfect opportunity to shed some light on what it...

Shannon Chang | Feb 4, 2015 7:39 PM

It's hard enough to get certain developer types to mingle for even a little while without constantly checking their phones for the best time to make their exit. It can be challenging to plan a...

David H Nebinger | Feb 4, 2015 4:08 PM

Introduction In my last blog post, I closed with the following: If you have the Vaadin 7 Control Panel installed and you've deployed the LazyPagedContainer Add On, you can download and deploy the...

Janne Hietala | Feb 4, 2015 10:24 AM

I am excited to announce Valamis 2.2, which has some great improvements. To name few, it enables more Tin Can API use-cases on Liferay platform. You can now make learning visibile into Social...

David H Nebinger | Feb 3, 2015 11:33 PM

Introduction So I wanted to provide an example Vaadin portlet built using the Vaadin 7 shared environment. Currently I've been migrating my general development efforts over to Intellij, so I...

Neil Griffin | Feb 3, 2015 10:47 PM

The Liferay Faces team is focussed on developing our new 4.2.5-GA6 and 3.2.5-GA6 releases as well as our new Liferay Faces Showcase demo. But since not all projects will not have an opportunity to...

David H Nebinger | Feb 3, 2015 4:27 AM

Introduction So Vaadin provides a core set of widgets, standard widgets that you'd find in any web framework such as radio buttons, buttons, links and text input fields. But like most other...

Subhasis Roy | Feb 2, 2015 9:06 AM

The following document will provide the steps about installing the “Liferay 6.2 EE” on “JBoss 6.2 EAP” server. Softwares Required: - Download and unzip "JBoss6.2 EAP" - Download latest version of...

David Zhang | Feb 2, 2015 8:10 AM

Integerate P6spy with Liferay to format Hibernate SQL When working on the customer's tickets, we may analysis the hibernate SQL to get some useful information, but it is really difficult to do...

Bruno Farache | Jan 30, 2015 9:42 PM

Hello, community! We would like to announce Liferay Push, our new framework for sending push notifications from Liferay Portal to your mobile apps. Push notifications is a technology that allows...

Marcel Mika | Jan 28, 2015 1:57 AM

Inter Portlet Communication (IPC) is a way of exchange the data between portlets. In Liferay there are different ways we can achieve this. One of them is the client-side IPC that is supported by...

Marcel Mika | Jan 27, 2015 10:43 PM

This tutorial describes all the necessary steps needed to integrate LIMS Messenger for Liferay to the Jabber (XMPP) server. If you are interested in LIMS Messenger for Liferay visit the official...

Olaf Kock | Jan 27, 2015 3:01 PM

Ich bin mal wieder auf Reisen - und zwar in Wien. Und welche bessere Gelegenheit Land und Leute kennenzulernen gibt es, als ein Liferay Community Meeting (oder Radio Liferay Hörertreffen)? Hofburg,...

David H Nebinger | Jan 27, 2015 4:39 AM

Liferay ships with a pretty old copy of Vaadin 6, but most documentation and examples out now are for Vaadin 7. It's pretty easy to upgrade the shared Vaadin environment to Vaadin 7, as simple as...

Krzysztof Gołębiowski | Jan 24, 2015 2:07 PM

It is a common practice to embed Web Content Articles in a theme. Once Web Content's were embedded using Web Content Display portlet, nowadays we can use journalContentUtil which is already visible...

Marcus Hjortzén | Jan 23, 2015 3:25 PM

Are you developing a large amount of plugins? Ever found yourself frustrated with having to manually deploy war-files to development, test and production (clustered?) environments? When performing...

Marcus Hjortzén | Jan 21, 2015 3:09 PM

I previously wrote a blog entry regarding Liferay Sync and ways to authenticate the application even when using SSO (and not really having access to the SSO-password). Apparently there was interest...

Olaf Kock | Jan 20, 2015 9:03 AM

A short Inbetweenisode on the release of 6.2 CE GA3 with repeat guest and Community Manager James Falkner. During Devcon James promised the release for the 15. January - while I stated that this...

Esther Sanz | Jan 19, 2015 11:22 AM

LA Unconference December 2014 December is always a very exciting time of the year when engineers gather in our LA office to discuss, work and have fun together. It is a time for reflection and to...

Marcus Hjortzén | Jan 15, 2015 5:04 PM

Why SSO? Using single sign on (SSO) is probably something that more and more systems aim towards. A large benefit is improved user experience, perhaps not so much for publically available sites....

James Falkner | Jan 15, 2015 3:08 PM

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA3! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start]...

Martin Yan | Jan 13, 2015 11:58 PM

Congratulations, you made it to the new year. You're still here, and with a bit of luck, so is your company. Or maybe not. But it's the new year, so at least you have some fresh resolve and a...

Zeno Rocha | Jan 13, 2015 5:14 PM

Originally published on Medium One of the cool things about working at Liferay is that you have the freedom to propose any crazy idea that comes to your head and there’s a high chance that they...

Jose M. Navarro | Jan 13, 2015 11:09 AM

Hi Liferay Screeners! After several months of hard work and few presentations to show you the first beta of Liferay Screens, we're ready to release this second beta. This version is full of fixes...

Chandan Sharma | Jan 10, 2015 12:57 PM

Liferay provides an API to call any methods using Reflection. First of all why do we use reflection API to call any method. In terms of liferay, liferay loads the classes from different scopes like...

Daniel Tyger | Jan 9, 2015 4:37 PM

Background and Need: Our campus portal (Site) administrators have a need to review permissions across their sites of various objects. In particular, we see requests for page, portlet, and Web...

Andrea Di Giorgi | Dec 26, 2014 8:29 AM

Hi everyone and Merry, Merry Christmas to all of you! In the last couple of months I had a lot of fun playing with Go, a very promising compiled, concurrent, garbage-collected, cross-platform...

Jorge Ferrer | Dec 23, 2014 10:39 PM

It’s the end of the year season and most programmers take a few days of to spend time with family and/or friends and of course check out some new technologies. While we know there are many exciting...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Dec 17, 2014 7:13 PM

On the Liferay Faces Team, we try to reply to as many posts in the Liferay Faces forums as we can. This has been extremely beneficial for our team and our project. If you're a developer, I want to...

Olaf Kock | Dec 16, 2014 9:50 PM

The nerdiest topic so far: I'm speaking to Thomas Schweiger, german national barista champion 2010-2012. He was sponsored by our german partner Prodyna to prepare coffee during this years Devcon...

David Kubitza | Dec 14, 2014 2:43 PM

At this year's Liferay DevCon, Suraj Bihari had an interesting session about short URLs. As I was about to do something like this anyway, I decided to make it public from the beginning. And now...

Olaf Kock | Dec 12, 2014 12:49 AM

I had a short meeting with Bryan Ho, Lead Graphic Designer at Liferay - With that role it's obvious that we're bridging the audio/visual gap again: A very visual topic in an audio only podcast. But...

Olaf Kock | Dec 11, 2014 11:26 PM

This is my conversation with Stian Sigvartsen, winner of the Marketplace App contest with his Social Apps Proxy (Link) and well known member of the UK Liferay usergroup, working in Devon and quite...

Jamie Sammons | Dec 8, 2014 7:02 PM

The Audience Targeting app enhances the engagement experience of your portal by providing the right information in the right context to your visitors in new and exciting ways. Audience Targeting...

Olaf Kock | Dec 4, 2014 11:27 AM

I'm talking with Brett Swaim, Principal Consultant at Liferay US, on application performance monitoring, horror stories and things to avoid. Brett is dealing with a lot of customers. He's one of...