James Falkner | Dec 21, 2011 5:32 PM

Liferay is proud to announce that the Liferay 6.1 CE Release Candidate is available! [Download] The Liferay product and engineering teams, in close concert with our awesome community, have spent...

James Falkner | Dec 19, 2011 8:01 PM

If you are reading this blog post, you are undoubtedly familiar with open source in general, and Liferay and its open source mission in particular. Our community is spread out both globally and...

Olaf Kock | Dec 16, 2011 11:10 AM

For this episode I talked to Dennis Ju, Softwareengineer at Liferay Inc. Among other topics, Dennis is involved with Liferay Sync, together with Gail Hernandez and also with the OpenSocial...

Greg Amerson | Dec 14, 2011 8:27 PM

I'd like to mention one of the new features in the upcoming release of Liferay 6.1, which is the remote development and deployment support from Liferay IDE. The idea is that with this feature you...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Dec 13, 2011 2:47 PM

Sometimes there is need of writing custom SQL queries in order to obtain the data acording to our needs. And, as all of you know, Liferay can run on top of the most popular databases so writing...

Olaf Kock | Dec 11, 2011 5:22 PM

(apologies for the english-speaking audience: This is an announcement for a german event - doesn't make sense to have it in english) Liferay (in Form meiner Person) kommt nach Jena: Am Mittwoch,...

Olaf Kock | Dec 1, 2011 7:33 PM

Liferay for your ears - I had the opportunity to record a session with 3/4 of the founders, namely all the Brians (simplifying the "y" in Bryan to "i" for this pluralization): Brian Chan (Chief...

Jonas Yuan | Nov 30, 2011 7:14 PM

Hooks are a feature to catch hold of the properties and JSP files into an instance of the portal, as if catching them with a hook. Hook plugins are more powerful plugins that come to complement...

Armin Cyrus Dahncke | Nov 29, 2011 12:11 AM

This Blog will quickly explain how to setup debugging in a Liferay Devstudio(EE), which will be leading us through easy steps: get devstudio from liferay customer portal...

Olaf Kock | Nov 24, 2011 1:32 PM

Liferay for your ears - This time I sat together with Alexander Chow and Sergio González. Both are Liferay Core Engineers. Alex is "Employee number 8, UK employee number 1 (which gives away his...

Barrie Selack | Nov 21, 2011 1:07 PM

I recently did a talk at 1DevDay Detroit (http://1devdaydetroit.com) on Open Source and the Community. It was a great event and if you live in the greater Detroit (MI/OH) area, I'd recommend you...

Erik Andersson | Nov 16, 2011 4:34 PM

Ever wanted to use a rich text editor (RTE) such as the CK Editor in your custom portlet? Implementing an RTE in your view is (almost) as simple as using a jsp-tag: <aui:field-wrapper...

James Falkner | Nov 14, 2011 6:38 PM

"Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code." - Author Unknown Here we go again. Once again I have failed to live up to my promises of a once-a-month roundup, and for that I...

Olaf Kock | Nov 14, 2011 2:51 PM

Liferay for your ears - Meeting Michael Han, Liferay's Vice President of Operations, at the european symposium, I used the opportunity to record an episode on some of his working areas, namely...

Jonas Yuan | Nov 12, 2011 7:27 PM

Liferay Portal Systems Development Build dynamic, content-rich and social systems on top of Liferay Use Liferay tools (CMS, WCM, collaborative API and social API) to create your own Web sites and...

Jan Gregor | Nov 10, 2011 8:58 AM

Have you ever wondered about the number of deployments and server restarts you do per day ? For example, a single deployment takes 30 seconds and a server restart takes 1 minute (and these numbers...

Iliyan Peychev | Nov 4, 2011 10:28 PM

You might be already aware of that, but for the others - Liferay 6.1 will have WYSIWYG editors for Wiki Creole and BBCode. You may use the first one in order to create Wiki pages and the second one...

Richard Sezov | Nov 4, 2011 4:14 PM

Writing is something I've been doing for a long time. I mean, a long time--since I was something like 12 years old. To give you a piece of perspective on this (without giving away my age), I was 12...

Jeffrey Handa | Nov 1, 2011 11:36 PM

Many of you are probably aware that Liferay version 6.0 supports several scripting languages in a variety of contexts including portlet plugins, Kaleo workflows, and the Script Console in the...

Olaf Kock | Oct 30, 2011 6:20 PM

Liferay for your ears: Episode 9 of Radio Liferay is another premier: This marks the first recording with more than one interviewee, as well as the first non-Liferay Employees. I used the...

Olaf Kock | Oct 30, 2011 5:53 PM

Liferay for your ears: Episode 8 is a premiere in this program: Brian Chan, Liferay's founder and Chief Software Architect, is the first that I didn't record in a conversation: Instead this is a...

Jonas Yuan | Oct 27, 2011 6:15 PM

In brief, OpenSearch allows publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation. Federated search is a simultaneous search of multiple online databases or web...

Thiago Leão Moreira | Oct 26, 2011 9:47 PM

I'm on site these last days and one of my tasks was to execute some load testing and monitor a Liferay instance hosted in a network accessed only via SSH port. No other port except 22 and 80 was...

Olaf Kock | Oct 25, 2011 8:16 PM

Liferay for your ears: Episode 7 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Julio Camarero, Software Engineer in Liferay's spanish office. As a certified Legend he's well known in the forums here,...

Olaf Kock | Oct 24, 2011 8:42 AM

Episode 6 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Aaron Delani, UI Software Engineer at Liferay. This is another episode recorded while I was in L.A for the annual Westcoast symposium. Thanks...

Ray Augé | Oct 21, 2011 2:28 PM

Liferay has long had the ability to embed portlets in themes. This is convenient for implementors to get highly functional design into the look and feel of a site. In my years at Liferay I've seen...

James Falkner | Oct 20, 2011 4:39 PM

In addition to the annual "Partner of the Year" award, this year Liferay recognized its partners for their community achievements, awarding the Community Excellence Award. We consider partners a...

Ray Augé | Oct 18, 2011 6:33 PM

Spring's dependency injection framework is the picture of ubiquity in the java world. As such it aims to drive developers toward declarative, component driven design and lose coupling. But, it is...

James Falkner | Oct 15, 2011 2:46 AM

Liferay is proud to announce the Liferay 6.1 CE Beta release! The Liferay product and engineering teams, in close concert with our awesome community, have spent many months getting the 6.1 release...

Joshua Asbury | Oct 13, 2011 5:37 PM

I'm excited to announce that Liferay has been invited to speak at next week's Gartner Symposium ITXPO at the Walt Disney World Dolphin. I will be making the trip to Orlando to deliver a...

Ray Augé | Oct 12, 2011 1:45 PM

I've taken to using github.com's gist service quite alot recently and so I wanted to just spread the word that there are some handy nuggets appearing there. Here's the url...

Olaf Kock | Oct 10, 2011 11:07 PM

Episode 5 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Cynthia Wilburn, Project Manager at Liferay, the engineering group's professional nag (short: Catherder) and single wringable neck for release...

James Falkner | Oct 10, 2011 4:27 PM

Update: The Meetup will take place at Berliner 109 on Monday, October 17, at 18:00! This is a couple of minutes walk east, from the Symposium venue (Sheraton Offenbach Hotel). If you are attending...

Joshua Asbury | Oct 6, 2011 1:16 PM

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If...

Igor Spasić | Oct 6, 2011 9:32 AM

Imagine serveral git branches and sub-braches, each with several commits. Although most git UI clients can display a nice branch tree view, it might be not so easy to get an overview at once: some...

James Falkner | Oct 5, 2011 7:52 PM

As you look back on the Liferay Community, you can see many innovative contributions and outstanding achievements by our wider community of enthusiasts, users, customers, partners, and employees. ...

Greg Amerson | Oct 2, 2011 3:53 PM

Hi all, We just released version 1.4 of Liferay IDE. Help > Check for updates... is the fastest way if you already have it installed. If not here is the URL update site:...

Olaf Kock | Oct 1, 2011 12:35 PM

Hey there, I'll be in London on Tue, 11. Oct. and would like to test if there's some interest in getting together for a Liferay Community Meeting - no formal stuff, just chatting in a pub or...

Justin Choi | Sep 29, 2011 2:56 AM

This is my first blog entry on Liferay. I was waiting for something newsworthy since as a QA engineer, our view of Liferay can be tunnel vision. Occasionally, we get to go out: attending WCS is...

James Falkner | Sep 27, 2011 2:08 PM

It's that six dot one bump, make you put yo hands up - Make you put yo hands up, put yo, put yo hands up Welcome to another installment of Community Roundup! Your source for a digest of the...

Brett Swaim | Sep 26, 2011 8:25 PM

I just wanted to say thanks to everybody that attended my talks. I really enjoyed giving them and hope you all got something from them that was helpful! I'll be posting my files/powerpoints (or...

Olaf Kock | Sep 25, 2011 6:05 PM

Episode 4 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Raymond Augé, Sr. Software Architect at Liferay. We recorded this episode right after Liferay's Westcoast Symposium in the L.A. office....

Jorge Ferrer | Sep 19, 2011 2:35 PM

Hola a todos, Ya estoy por aquí de nuevo y como no podía ser de otra manera con buenos propósitos de escribir entradas mucho más a menudo. Temas de los que hablar no me van a faltar en los próximos...

Olaf Kock | Sep 15, 2011 7:56 PM

Episode 3 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Nate Cavanaugh, Liferay's Director for UI Engineering about AlloyUI, the switch from jQuery We spoke about these topics - and probably more:...

Michael C. Han | Sep 14, 2011 3:28 AM

It's a somewhat rare occassion that I get to fuss around with code these days. This time, it happens to be in assistance of one of our Global Services consultants for his West Coast Symposium...

Olaf Kock | Sep 8, 2011 8:41 PM

If you are planning to come to the Westcoast Symposium, use your chance and present your favourite feature or project: You can still submit a Lightning Talk for the WCS! The rules are simple: You...

Jonas Yuan | Sep 8, 2011 12:16 AM

As you have been noticed, the version 6.1 adds a lot of CMS (Document Library) features. The following is a list of these features, not the full list. Capability to manage different document types:...

Ray Augé | Sep 3, 2011 6:05 PM

Over the past several months I've been working on integrating an OSGi framework into Liferay Portal. The reasons for doing so are varied but include solutions to app server/servlet container...

Neil Griffin | Sep 2, 2011 10:59 PM

Introduction I recently had the opportunity to launch an Amazon EC2 instance and setup Liferay & MySQL. There were a couple of hurdles that I had to overcome, so I thought I would share the...

Olaf Kock | Sep 1, 2011 4:47 PM

Episode 2 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Rich Sezov, Liferay's Knowledge Manager, author of the upcoming book "Liferay in Action" and Alter Ego of "Rich Editor" for those of you who...

Juan Fernández | Aug 30, 2011 6:58 PM

Hi all! In a recent project I had to add these portlets ("My Workflow Tasks" and "My Submissions") to a normal user page. By default they are shown in the control panel, but depending on your...

James Falkner | Aug 30, 2011 2:41 PM

By popular demand, below is a technical description and source code of the new Community Activity Map that I posted a couple of weeks ago. Overview I started on this back in December 2010 when we...

Olaf Kock | Aug 26, 2011 12:32 PM

Let's have another community meeting - this time I'll be able to speak the local language: 5. September, 19:00 in Hamburg, "Abaton Kneipe", Grindelhof, close to the university. Please comment here...

Ray Augé | Aug 26, 2011 2:58 AM

To continue a recent string of theme related posts, I'm going to add another on the recently added feature allowing addition of advanced input controls and behaviors to theme settings. Themes are...

James Min | Aug 25, 2011 10:29 PM

I'll be running a workshop at Liferay WCS on Backend Integrations in September, and also presenting at the first Jenkins User Conference (JUC) in October where Liferay is a sponsor. Liferay WCS...

Bryan H Cheung | Aug 25, 2011 11:11 AM

Paul Hinz forwarded us an old whitepaper and presentation from IBM back in 2009 that sought to debunk the "myth of free open source portals." The main idea was that open source portals might save...

Jeffrey Handa | Aug 24, 2011 6:00 PM

Greetings Liferay Community! Based on the positive feedback we received after the East Coast Symposium, we will again be offering the Portal Administrator Express training in conjunction with the...

Joshua Asbury | Aug 23, 2011 4:31 PM

I'm working on my Liferay West Coast Symposium presentation which is meant to discuss how game culture can help build and enhance social collaboration for organizations. I use Foursquare,...

Ray Augé | Aug 22, 2011 7:24 PM

Ok, so in the last post I talked about JSP Include Buffer. That post talked about how you'd override JSPs from Liferay's core in a maintainable way. Now I'd like to introduce you to a Liferay Theme...

Ray Augé | Aug 22, 2011 1:54 PM

There are plenty of times when you might want to alter the default views of the portal. I'm not going to go into the why since that is hugely subjective. What I do want to show is the how you can...