Blogs

Olaf Kock | Jul 10, 2013 9:14 AM

When you're arranging portlets on your pages, have you ever wondered, where you'll be able to drop them? Especially when you use a more complex layout, like the 1-2-1-columns and don't have a lot...

Manuel de la Peña | Jul 9, 2013 3:24 PM

I love that picture! Imagine yourself any Friday, at the end of your day-work. You look at the CI server and, unluckily, it is broken. You have only three options: Resign yourself that you will be...

Ryan Schuhler | Jul 5, 2013 10:06 PM

The last script I will share with you for now is one that I call on screen helper. This is also a simple script, but very useful when it comes to animations, transitions, and effects. Essentially...

Ryan Schuhler | Jul 5, 2013 8:35 PM

Here is another script that we developed for the redesign of Liferay.com. The goal for this script was to help with loading times on pages with a lot of images as well as provide a way to...

Ryan Schuhler | Jul 5, 2013 8:12 PM

As a part of the redesign of Liferay's website we have developed a number of new scripts in order to effeciently acheive new effects and improve the UX. I thought I would share some of the code we...

Ryan Schuhler | Jul 5, 2013 2:30 PM

Hello, My name is Ryan and I work at Liferay. I am currently on the web team at Liferay and have the unique opportunity to both use Liferay's software as customer and collaborate with all the...

Olaf Kock | Jul 4, 2013 2:19 PM

Please welcome yet another return guest, Milen Dyankov, a fellow trainer and senior consultant in Liferay. Milen has been participating in episode 9 and he has been the original contributor of the...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Jul 4, 2013 11:31 AM

Monitoring JMX data has been always a painful process, especially in production systems where the ability to open ports and/or allow certain kind of traffic is kind of "complicated". Thanks to...

Ruud Kluivers | Jul 2, 2013 7:57 AM

This is an adaptation of a blog I wrote for Wolters Kluwer March 2011. Everyone knows that data and information are subtly different things. Data is worthless unless it can be turned into...

Sachin Dhus | Jul 2, 2013 7:57 AM

Few steps for creating your own tomcat bundle from Liferay Source. Extract plain tomcat . Rename apache- tomcat-7.0.23 to tomcat-7.0.23(tomcat-[version]). Download/checkout liferay source from...

Ruud Kluivers | Jul 1, 2013 9:45 AM

Twenty years ago, June 1993, Adobe introduced its Acrobat software for creating and viewing electronic documents. I was one of the ‘lucky’ IT journalists to be invited by Adobe’s PR agency to...

priti parmar | Jun 28, 2013 7:31 AM

create a ServicePreAction, which will create a new custom NavItem object and a change in navigation.vm of the theme, which will show the custom navigation. Here are the steps to create the custom...

priti parmar | Jun 28, 2013 7:19 AM

Liferay 6.1 provides Custom Fileds for Pages , set viewCount as a Custom Field and update it using a servicePreAction Hook. public class CustomServicePreAction extends Action { /** * This...

priti parmar | Jun 28, 2013 7:14 AM

PART 1: SETTING UP SOLR with TOMCAT Step 1: Download Solr. It's just a zip file. Step 2: Copy from your SOLR_HOME_DIR/dist/apache-solr-1.3.0.war to your tomcat webapps directory:...

Glenn Saler | Jun 27, 2013 5:25 PM

Liferay's Hamilton office has now officially been open for about 4 weeks and we have had some great visitors. Starting this summer I will be inviting more of our certified Liferay Service Partners...

Milen Dyankov | Jun 27, 2013 2:32 PM

As you probably know in version 6.1 Liferay introduced the mobile device rules feature. However if you haven't followed the discussions and presentations about it, you may be under the wrong...

Olaf Kock | Jun 24, 2013 10:36 AM

Please welcome a return guest, James Falkner, Liferay's Community manager. I got him on to talk about the changes in the upcoming symposium's structure, but we continued with conversations about a...

Ryan Schuhler | Jun 21, 2013 11:55 PM

Want a quick and easy way to make a sticky nav right out of the box with liferay? Thanks to AUI with 10 lines of code you can turn your navigation bar into a sticky nav. This is especially useful...

Mika Koivisto | Jun 18, 2013 10:25 PM

We've finally released both CE and EE versions of Liferay 6.1 GA3 and along with those releases we've also released the corresponding versions of Liferay Maven Support and Portal artifacts. The...

Olaf Kock | Jun 17, 2013 8:24 AM

I took some time to speak to Jorge Ferrer, Liferay's VP of Engineering about all things Engineering and Development in Liferay. This time I'm not starting with butchering names, but positions....