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James Falkner | Apr 12, 2013 7:44 PM

Earlier this week we wrapped up A Day of Liferay - a 24 hour epic trip around the globe to meet our amazing community and get to know more about their interests and work they do on and around...

Erik Andersson | Apr 9, 2013 12:22 PM

During our (Team Monator) 30 minutes slot at A Day of Liferay, my colleague Andreas Magnusson will talk about Freemarker and Liferay. More specifically he will discuss and show an awesome...

Olaf Kock | Apr 8, 2013 10:27 AM

Not long until the Day of Liferay - I'll have 30 minutes to fill, and this is what I intend to cover: A part of my job is in presales, answering all kinds of questions about what Liferay can or...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Apr 5, 2013 9:08 AM

These days I have been pushing all the OSGi stuff through the review process so we have already got some of the work in the master branch. Ray has written a really good blog post about using the...

Juan Hidalgo Reina | Apr 3, 2013 7:32 AM

In which way we approach the continuous improvement of UX in Liferay?. It is always under the perspective of a continuous evaluation.. This so “formative” methodology is the direct consequence of...

Greg Amerson | Mar 27, 2013 7:23 AM

Serveral weeks ago we updated the Remote IDE Connector application to version 1.0.1. This new update fixed the issues that we found with the 1.0.0 version of the Remote IDE Connector. Namely, it...

Jesse Rao | Mar 20, 2013 6:42 PM

We've added a new section to the Liferay Development Guide covering the Resources Importer:...

Igor Beslic | Mar 15, 2013 12:24 PM

Hi all, I want to share with you something that is pretty cool for me and I found it super useful. It is shared type of Liferay SDK plugin we use to generate jar entry that can be referred by your...

Vicki Lea Tsang | Mar 14, 2013 10:50 PM

We have been hard at work here at Liferay and are happy to announce the release of a second community edition of Social Office. Social Office 2.0.4 CE GA2 contains a variety of bug fixes (see...

Greg Amerson | Mar 14, 2013 9:52 AM

Today, the Liferay IDE team has released Liferay IDE 1.6.2. This release is minor release that only fixes a couple of issues found with Eclipse Juno SR compatibility. So if you are using Eclipse...

Juan Hidalgo Reina | Mar 13, 2013 3:02 PM

Defining UX is an abstraction exercise, a deep thought about all the agents touching upon the product’s value (apart of the typology of this product) by the users. Interactions, sensations, values,...

James Falkner | Mar 11, 2013 8:24 PM

The Liferay open source project relies on its community for many of the evolutionary and revolutionary ideas for features that eventually find their way into a release. Liferay strongly believes in...

James Falkner | Mar 8, 2013 9:49 PM

[EDIT: The A Day Of Liferay page has a detailed guest schedule. Tune into the webcast on April 9 by visiting the same!]. The best ideas often start with "Hey ya'll, watch this!!" or "Oh boy, this...

Neil Jin | Mar 5, 2013 1:25 PM

This one was designed by using minecraft screenshot! When I see this, I am always feel this grand brandy! Simple, strong, stable and enough space for imagination. Hope you will like it. The full...

Zeno Rocha | Mar 4, 2013 6:18 PM

Some weeks ago we announced the preview release of AlloyUI 2.0. One of the cool things about it is that now we have a pretty new CDN (Content Delivery Network). So instead of downloading AlloyUI to...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Feb 28, 2013 10:09 PM

It has been two years since I joined Liferay, it is incredible how fast time is going. Two amazing years I have been trying to enjoy as much as possible. First of all I would like to thank all my...

Neil Jin | Feb 28, 2013 2:23 AM

In the real world project, there are times when a team develops some feature like google map, twitter, facebook that need remote javascript library between several portlets but for the same portal....

Olaf Kock | Feb 26, 2013 8:46 PM

I'll be in Rome on 7. March 2013 and would like to keep up the infrequent habit to meet members of the community. Unfortunately so far nobody answered with their intent to come - and my favoured...

James Falkner | Feb 25, 2013 4:05 PM

Time for another community roundup! It's been far too long since the last one, and as usual a lot has been happening in and around our community. I hope everyone has had a good beginning to the...

Richard Sezov | Feb 21, 2013 12:08 AM

One of the benefits of moving our documentation out of LibreOffice and into Markdown is that Markdown converts to many publishable formats. We're already converting it into Liferay web content for...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 15, 2013 10:42 PM

Interview all liferay.com stakeholders about website redesign. Create affinity diagram to find common issues and brainstorm solutions. Create plan for improving liferay.com site flow and site...

Djalma Araujo | Feb 15, 2013 6:42 PM

Hi everyone! As you know, recently launched Alloy 2.0. To illustrate a bit and have it be something else in our day to day, I made a simple wallpaper of our alloy. Possibly make others more...

James Falkner | Feb 14, 2013 3:17 AM

In the first installment of this series, I showed several (hopefully useful) code snippets demonstrating the programmatic creation of various things in Liferay - pages, portlets, and structured web...

Olaf Kock | Feb 11, 2013 11:06 AM

Exposing well hidden features Those of you who attended my "Well Hidden Features of Liferay" presentation at the 2012 european symposium might remember the well hidden monitoring information that...

Jim Hinkey | Feb 8, 2013 7:59 PM

If you have been curious about Maven, or if you would like to use Maven to develop Liferay plugins, we have a new chapter dedicated to Maven--Developing plugins using Maven found in the Liferay...

Ray Augé | Feb 7, 2013 7:29 PM

Ok, so don't. This doesn't mean you can't gain advantage of Liferay. Also, what follows is not just a story about Sharepoint. If you have any HTML site of any kind you can gain advantages from...

Djalma Araujo | Feb 6, 2013 11:23 PM

During a joint meeting in Liferay Brazil, Fernando Areias had an idea of being able to deploy (portlets, themes, etc.), or any component of the SDK derived directly from the Finder by selecting one...

James Falkner | Feb 6, 2013 6:30 AM

Ding dong! The witch is dead! Which old witch? The 7Cogs witch! [EDIT: Part II covers additional stuff beyond this post!). This isn't news anymore - Starting with 6.1, Liferay replaced the sample...

Ray Augé | Feb 5, 2013 4:44 AM

Liferay has been slowly integrating an OSGi framework into it's core; not in the sense that Liferay will nessecarily run "within" an OSGi runtime itself (there are arguments for doing that, and...

Eduardo Lundgren | Feb 5, 2013 12:47 AM

For years Alloy has been known as the JavaScript Framework behind Liferay. This was great, because it's helped the project to grow a lot, but at the same time, it has restricted the project to a...

Bruno Farache | Feb 4, 2013 10:52 PM

We just released updates to Sync Android and iOS! This update includes some nice features: Renaming of files and folders Upload and deletion of multiple files Mark files as favorites for offline...

Milen Dyankov | Jan 22, 2013 11:05 PM

The title will probably make some people argue that it was never gone on the first place. That's true. But there are some resources out there trying to convince you that User and Power User roles...

Jorge Ferrer | Jan 21, 2013 10:04 AM

Here I am again with another in the series about Liferay's architecture. If you haven't read them yet, the four previous entries covered: Overview, Services Layer, Web Services and Service Builder....

Olaf Kock | Jan 17, 2013 10:06 PM

This is another episode recorded at the European Symposium 2012 in Wiesbaden. Zsolt Balogh, head of Liferay's Support for the EMEA reason talks about the pain points that led to developing a custom...

Neil Griffin | Jan 16, 2013 8:08 PM

I really enjoyed the JSFCentral Interview by Kito Mann. The podcast was posted on December 06, 2012. Some of the topics we discussed: Liferay Portal Liferay Faces JSR 329 CDI

James Falkner | Jan 16, 2013 7:16 PM

One of Liferay's key strengths has always been its flexibility. This stems from Liferay starting out as a consultant-based, services-oriented company. Every customer had different requirements...

Milen Dyankov | Jan 14, 2013 10:24 PM

Ever wandered what it takes to build a product like Liferay? Let me show you in a ... very visual way. Please sit comfortably and watch how the time flies (not to mention the developers) and...

Minhchau Dang | Jan 9, 2013 8:24 PM

Many years ago, Liferay's build validation was only getting started and so JSP pre-compilation related slowness wasn't a big deal (I think it was really only used during the distribution process)....

Zeno Rocha | Jan 9, 2013 4:48 PM

Today, Paul Miller released a nice list of the ”Most active GitHub users”. People started to talk about it and suddenly I received a lot of congratulations messages for being the #50 most active...

James Falkner | Jan 8, 2013 8:07 PM

Everyone knows of Liferay's flagship software product, Liferay Portal, but Liferay actually develops and releases many other products in the Liferay ecosystem. At any one time, development is...