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Ray Augé | Apr 24, 2008 1:29 PM

Updated: Wed May 28 10:53:09 EDT 2008. See the follow-up article here. In Javascript, "expando" means "to attach additional properties to an object". That's a little bit of hint as to what Expandos...

Minhchau Dang | Apr 22, 2008 2:37 AM

A feature I recently discovered was the ability to precompile all the JSPs in Liferay. The motivation behind this discovery was the need for sanity checking after making a small change to nearly a...

Ray Augé | Apr 15, 2008 8:27 PM

Social networks and portals are a natural fit. To that end we're currently doing work to integrate the brand new (still in incubation) Shindig project. Shindig is the Gadget and Opensocial...

Ray Augé | Apr 14, 2008 2:24 PM

In Liferay 5.0.0+ we have added a new feature: Announcements/Alerts. Announcements/Alerts are two portlets which can be used to broadcast some message to a list of users within a known scope....

Nate Cavanaugh | Apr 10, 2008 6:11 PM

Hey there, O faithful reader... Man, what a long time since actually posting. Since I last posted, quite a lot has happened, and included in that was the fact that my wife and I visited China with...

Alvaro Del Castillo | Apr 8, 2008 12:25 PM

Next week here in Spain we will go to Seville to a Liferay Training course. It is great the last enhancements in the training materials because we are going to use and check them near real time ;)...

Alexander Chow | Apr 4, 2008 8:02 AM

In a previous post, it was suggested to me that I remove tunnel-web's dependency on JAAS. What this would do is (1) circumvent issues with JAAS implementations in certain app servers (Tomcat's...

Dave Truong | Apr 3, 2008 4:55 PM

I read an interesting article today. You should probably read it first to understand my thoughts but I’ll summarize since most of you aren’t gonna read it and it’s a bit long anyways… It’s...

Alberto Montero | Mar 28, 2008 10:18 AM

Hi all, If you have read previous posts you already know about Romulus. Liferay task are related to three areas: Portal mashups Mashups are about reusing. Why not reuse already provided portal...

Bryan H Cheung | Mar 28, 2008 4:01 AM

We've wrapped up the second day of the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration conference here in Baltimore, where open source software was highlighted as one of the five "disruptive" forces in...

Jian Cao | Mar 26, 2008 3:57 AM

A lot of Chinese like some other styles of paginators, this is one I modify the existing jsp page a little to implement it, I think somebody else must have some better ways, please give me some...

Jian Cao | Mar 21, 2008 8:42 AM

James Min | Mar 19, 2008 5:13 PM

I just made a Wiki on how to configure ECJ for your Liferay builds. It is here, but I'll just paste the most important parts: Liferay Builds with ECJ ECJ, the Eclipse Compiler for Java, is an...

Alexander Chow | Mar 14, 2008 8:37 PM

I don't know about you, but I was not too fond of the Image Gallery display (sorry Brian). So, I decided to get out of my back-end shell, and try a little Javascript and CSS madness! Now, when...

Richard Sezov | Mar 14, 2008 3:16 AM

Well, it's a little late and yes, it's a little behind, but the first edition of the Liferay Administrator's Guide has hit the presses! Covering Liferay Portal 4.3, it goes over everything from...

Alberto Montero | Mar 13, 2008 8:09 AM

Could development in Liferay be improved? The answer is allways yes. And, how could development be improved? This may have several answers, and one of them is Romulus. Romulus is an R&D project...

Alberto Montero | Mar 13, 2008 7:58 AM

Hi, I'm Alberto Montero, one of the latest incorporations to Liferay staff. Although sometime hard, it's allways exciting to start a new job, with lots of new things to learn and to do. My work...

Ivan Cheung | Mar 11, 2008 7:24 AM

Recently I set up a clustered environment using three servers, two with liferay-tomcat-4.4.2 bundle and one with apache 2.2 http server. Here are my steps: STEP 1: Download and install the...

Jorge Ferrer | Mar 7, 2008 6:40 PM

Up until now the editor area of FCKEditor did not always correctly reflect the look&feel that the contents were going to have when published. The reason was that the theme CSS was not being applied...

Jorge Ferrer | Mar 4, 2008 5:51 PM

We've been waiting for this moment for a long time. I've received this question by email, in person and through the message boards, lots of times... when will the Portlet 2.0 spec be ready?....