Blogs

Ray Augé | Sep 23, 2008 7:32 PM

Recently I was again asked how to call a more complex Liferay service using XSL. Here is an example of getting CalEvents from XSL and printing the list. The first thing you might find is that the...

Michael C. Han | Sep 18, 2008 2:45 PM

Late last year, we started the process of upgrading our performance testing environments. Our previous performance environment were basically desktops with limited CPU and memory. The latest...

Ray Augé | Sep 12, 2008 5:36 AM

Recently my friend Journal VM Template was feeling a little down in the dumps because of his lack of ability when it comes to handling XML content. He was feeling inferior to Journal XSL Template...

Richard Sezov | Sep 9, 2008 5:12 PM

I am pleased to announce the availability of the Liferay Administrator's Guide, Second Edition. The Guide has now been exhaustively gone through and updated to support Liferay 5.1 (and below). But...

Scott Lee | Sep 5, 2008 5:05 PM

Here are some screenshots for the new mail portlet. You can check out jerry's post on how to install the mail portlet. It is as simple as clicking around in the plugins installer. The mail...

Jerry Niu | Sep 4, 2008 9:42 PM

With Liferay 5.1, we introduced a new Mail Portlet. Here are instructions on how to add it Start by getting to the "Plugins Installer". You'll see that the Mail Portlet is one of the options. ...

Sang Baek | Sep 4, 2008 3:05 AM

Liferay Southeast Asia takes place in the beautiful coastal city of Kuala Terengganu in northeast peninsular Malaysia. More specifically, on the waterfront view of The Heritage Bay Club Marina &...

Ray Augé | Sep 4, 2008 2:28 AM

Recently a coleague asked if it was possible to call java from XSL. It is possible, and here is the example I provided. <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"...

Thiago Leão Moreira | Sep 1, 2008 6:43 PM

I just finished a new feature for the Message Boards portlet. The new feature consist of a mechanism to link a Message Boards category to an existent mailing list service. Enabling the users to...

Ray Augé | Aug 28, 2008 7:29 PM

In Liferay we have this cool new feature to run portlets as embedded widgets from any webpage anywhere. Tired of loosing you chat sessions on every page refresh??? No more!!! Well feast your eyes...

Brian Chan | Aug 26, 2008 4:36 PM

Previously, to customize a core portal JSP, you would have to use the ext environment. You can do it now in a plugin via our liferay-hook.xml file. Just specify a directory of where your custom...

Richard Sezov | Aug 22, 2008 7:27 PM

Some people might be wondering why I've been so scarce around here. The reason for this is that I and my team have been heads-down working on a couple of brand new training courses that we will...

Jerry Niu | Aug 22, 2008 7:12 PM

With Liferay 5.1, we introduced a new Chat Portlet. Here are instructions on how to add it Start by getting to the "Plugins Installer". You'll see that the Chat Portlet is one of the options. ...

Neil Griffin | Aug 21, 2008 12:37 AM

UPDATE! Here is a video+transcript of the presentation given at the JSFOne conference: http://java.dzone.com/videos/filthy-rich-portlets And here is a similar webinar on ICEfaces .org in both .wmv...

Neil Griffin | Aug 21, 2008 12:25 AM

Perhaps I'm dating myself, but when I entered college in 1988, the Computer Science department required me to buy a Mac II because it was the only personal computer of the day that ran a type of...

Neil Griffin | Aug 16, 2008 10:37 AM

UPDATE: 2019/01/11: Please refer to Kyle Stiemann's blog titled How can I share session data across portlets in Liferay? which discusses the various benefits and drawbacks of data sharing...

Arcko Duan | Aug 16, 2008 4:27 AM

The open-source software movement (also known as the free software movement) received a boost Wednesday from the federal appeals court in Washington, according to an article from the New York...

Bruno Farache | Aug 15, 2008 11:18 PM

We've made some enhancements to the search infrastructure of the portal recently. We abstracted out Lucene as a search engine, now people can build plugins that integrate with others search engines...

James Min | Aug 14, 2008 3:06 PM

I've been being asked this a lot recently, so I'm going to blog it. Also a wiki on it. 5.1 To see a listing of available web services (v 5.1), you can go to the following URL with Liferay running...

Alvaro Del Castillo | Aug 13, 2008 4:37 PM

Today is my last day working at Liferay as a full time employee. On 1st September I will start working at CENATIC, National Reference Centre for the Application of Open Source Information and...