Blogs

Olaf Kock | Oct 31, 2014 8:07 AM

You probably know the basic installation instructions for Liferay Bundles: „unzip and run startup.sh“ - with this you get to a working Liferay installation in a minute. It will run with all...

Greg Amerson | Oct 31, 2014 7:40 AM

The Liferay IDE team is pleased to annouce the latest release version 2.2. Use the updatesite below to update your existing install or install for the first time....

Martin Yan | Oct 30, 2014 5:41 PM

When people visit your website, does it remind them of generic cola or Coca-Cola? Is it a unique and memorable experience? This question seems to be important as we consume more billboards,...

Olaf Kock | Oct 30, 2014 10:17 AM

Greetings Earthlings that come to Darmstadt for Devcon, the Unconference or LPSF Germany As last year, we'll have a community meetup. This year we'll be right outside Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof (main...

James Falkner | Oct 29, 2014 10:31 PM

UPDATE: Liferay Cloud Services has a new name! See this blog post for details on Liferay Connected Services! Today Liferay Cloud Services enters a new phase of its beta program - and now invites...

Jorge Ferrer | Oct 29, 2014 7:58 AM

It's been around 2 months since Milestone 1 and we are now ready for the second public deliverable of the ongoing Liferay Development: Liferay 7 Milestone 2. As usual it can be downloaded in...

Olaf Kock | Oct 23, 2014 9:12 PM

You probably know the basic installation instructions for Liferay Bundles: „unzip and run startup.sh“ - with this you get to a working Liferay installation in a minute. It will run with all...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Oct 23, 2014 4:08 AM

Ayer anuncié durante una de mis charlas en el Liferay Spain Symposium 2014 que estábamos trabajando en la organización de un workshop que versará sobre el desarrollo de aplicaciones Liferay bajo la...

Bryan H Cheung | Oct 22, 2014 3:52 PM

If you haven’t heard the news yet, Liferay has been named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals for the fifth year in a row, and we’ve placed second only to IBM—and well ahead...

Olaf Kock | Oct 21, 2014 8:35 PM

Another first: This week's guest Máté Thurzó presents a brief 37000ft overview over Staging. Yes, this is literally 37000ft - we both were lucky to be invited to the North America Symposium 2014...

James Falkner | Oct 20, 2014 4:46 PM

A community challenge for you Liferay's worldwide conferences generate quite a bit of data, and I am challenging the community: Take this data, and do something more interesting than a boring list...

Eduardo P. García | Oct 20, 2014 9:38 AM

It was great to participate in the Liferay North American Symposium this year. With hundreds of Liferay users (customers, partners, community members...) and dozens of presentations, it was not...

Meera Prince | Oct 19, 2014 5:48 AM

Liferay have different types of roles for user. So whenever we develop portlet application we may get need to fetch user roles. The following article will give you more about Liferay Roles ...

Zeno Rocha | Oct 15, 2014 6:37 PM

Our latest official release (2.5.0) made in April introduced a lot improvements in terms of documentation and bug fixes . Since then we made public some few preview releases in June and July. ...

Richard Sezov | Oct 14, 2014 9:23 PM

At Liferay's North American Symposium, I announced the immediate availability of a new website we've developed specifically for those who use Liferay and write code on its platform. We call this...

Olaf Kock | Oct 13, 2014 8:16 PM

You probably know the basic installation instructions for Liferay Bundles: „unzip and run startup.sh“ - with this you get to a working Liferay installation in a minute. While this is great for a...

Sven Werlen | Oct 10, 2014 1:49 AM

During last Liferay North America symposium in Boston, I had the opportunity to attend to Máté's interesting presentation (Best Practices for Using Staging in Liferay 6.2). I have always been...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Oct 8, 2014 11:32 AM

On last entry I made a quick overview over the proposed solution for the "problem" of building an analytics platform within the Liferay platform. Along this entry I will go deeper into the log data...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Oct 7, 2014 1:00 PM

Yesterday I was talking at the Liferay North America symposium here in Boston about how you can get more value of all the data you already (even if you are not aware you already own it). It has...

Bruno Farache | Oct 6, 2014 8:45 PM

Sync Beta 3.0 is out! We are very close to release Sync 3.0 and need your feedback! We have made a complete UI revamp since the last version, take a look at the screenshots bellow: ...

Jan Eerdekens | Oct 5, 2014 6:49 PM

Intro A lot of developers will probably know this feeling: you've just returned from a conference and seen lots of exciting new technologies and now you can't wait to try them out! For me one such...

David H Nebinger | Oct 2, 2014 7:33 PM

The Vaadin 7 Control Panel is a custom control panel designed to manage the shared Vaadin environment in Liferay. What is the shared Vaadin environment? It is one of two modes1 for creating Vaadin...

Ken Dong | Oct 2, 2014 2:40 PM

Throughout history, knowledge and the ability to apply that knowledge to practical use has been of highest value to any organization. As one of the leading trainers on the Liferay Support Team, I...

James Falkner | Oct 2, 2014 7:00 AM

At this year's Spain Symposium and North America Symposium (which begins in about 294,682 seconds from now), I'm going to be holding a session on 21 Ridiculously Simple Ways to Contribute to the...

Eduardo P. García | Sep 29, 2014 10:15 AM

It’s less than a week left until Liferay North America Symposium (NAS), the first of a series of events where we’ll have the chance to first-hand explain to our users what we’ve been working on...

Neil Griffin | Sep 27, 2014 1:39 AM

On September 26, 2014 Liferay released the 2nd Milestone of Liferay Faces 4.2.0: Liferay Faces 4.2.0-m2 JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 Release Notes All New Showcase The Liferay Faces Showcase has is...

Ken Dong | Sep 24, 2014 11:47 PM

Connection is one of the most important ways to reach your customer. It creates comfort and ultimately trust. I’ve observed that there are generally three types of people who connect well: the...

Martin Yan | Sep 24, 2014 4:28 PM

Recently, Apple announced the arrival of the Apple Watch, their latest product in the wearable tech market. This is big news because, well, it's Apple, but also because it had been several years...

James Falkner | Sep 22, 2014 4:00 PM

This blog is part of a series of entries documenting how we are using iBeacons and Liferay to better engage our audiences at events throughout the year. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Update: Check out...

Nate Cavanaugh | Sep 17, 2014 2:54 PM

Since my last blog post, I have gotten quite a few emails and questions about what the future of front end engineering looks like now that Yahoo has ended new development on YUI. What I'd like to...

Vicki Lea Tsang | Sep 11, 2014 10:30 PM

Our most recent update to Social Office EE for Liferay Portal 6.2 was uploaded to Liferay Marketplace today. Social Office 3.1 EE provides several improvements over version 3.0 EE, released earlier...

Martin Yan | Sep 10, 2014 5:36 PM

You've got a good idea. In fact, it's brilliant. The market is currently lacking XYZ, and you've got just the right product or service that is going to be the first or best to address it. So,...

Matti Tahvonen | Sep 2, 2014 1:46 PM

As you might know Liferay comes bundled with Vaadin. Now that Vaadin 7.3 is out as of today, it is perfect time to update your Vaadin portlet. Vaadin 7.3 is the largest release since Vaadin 7 in...

Jorge Ferrer | Aug 29, 2014 9:44 PM

The word is out in Twitter, we have released the first development milestone release of Liferay 7. This is a call for really adventurous developers to try it out and give us your feedback. Here are...

Nate Cavanaugh | Aug 29, 2014 9:34 PM

As many of you may have read, Yahoo is immediately stopping development on the YUI library. This decision, while it will have a significant impact, is not news to us. Given our close relationship...

Matti Tahvonen | Aug 26, 2014 7:51 AM

We were very happy to have received the Liferay Marketplace award for the best Free Opensource portlet for 2014 . This was a huge thing for us not only because Vaadin.com itself uses the Tori forum...

Olaf Kock | Aug 26, 2014 6:15 AM

This article accompanies the dev.life session "Ridiculously simple plugins" hosted today (26. Aug, 16:00 CEST, 14:00 UTC) by me. The session is broadcasted on youtube and recording will be...

Ronald Sarayudej | Aug 26, 2014 1:45 AM

Life consists of all kinds of experiences. Some experiences are common, and we can go through them every day. Having a tasty meal. Sitting in traffic. Chatting with friends. Watching a good movie....

James Falkner | Aug 25, 2014 5:52 PM

Today Liferay announced the winners of the 2014 Liferay Marketplace App Contest! This year, we were super excited to see what our community could dream up, and you did not disappoint. The review...

Martin Yan | Aug 19, 2014 11:47 PM

The customer is always right. If you've been around the American marketplace long enough, you should be familiar with the phrase. It's the idea upon which the best restaurants and companies look to...