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Brian Chan | Dec 4, 2007 10:52 PM

4.3.5 is the latest stable and recommended production release from Liferay. Release Notes: http://support.liferay.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10014&styleName=Html&version=10260 SVN Tag:...

Michael Young | Dec 4, 2007 6:39 AM

Before I joined Liferay I used to check up on Brian's work from time to time, hoping I could somehow be a part of this small piece of software called Liferay EP. As we're approaching our 9th year...

Ray Augé | Dec 4, 2007 3:37 AM

This weekend is the annual Liferay retreat. That means that many of us are preparing to head to LA to meet and greet co-workers we don't often see in person. For my familly and I, it is especially...

Ivan Cheung | Dec 4, 2007 3:21 AM

Recently I happened across a thread where Carlos Santos Sáenz was asking about how to best set up Roles and permissions. As I attempted to duplicate Carlos' efforts, I realized that the root cause...

Brett Swaim | Dec 3, 2007 2:21 PM

What is the hardest part about programming? I've heard many suggestions by peers, bosses, employees, students and professors. I've heard algorithms, front end (html/javascript), backend (database...

Brett Swaim | Dec 3, 2007 2:21 PM

Since there are now six Liferay developers living in Columbus, Ohio Monday through Thursday I was thinking that we could start showing up the JUGs if anybody is interested. I have done quite a bit...

Brett Swaim | Dec 3, 2007 2:20 PM

When I first started at Liferay I started using Eclipse. After about six months I found the Web Toolkit for Eclipse. I used that for about a year and a half total, until I got staffed consulting...

Richard Sezov | Nov 30, 2007 3:16 PM

I've been meaning all month to get my driver's license renewed. Here in New Jersey, this is the kind of thing many people have been trained to dread. Long wait times and surly people behind the...

James Min | Nov 30, 2007 10:15 AM

In Hamburg trying to wrap up a project, and we've been working quite a lot. It's easy to forget how beautiful Hamburg is:

James Min | Nov 30, 2007 10:07 AM

Need to access session attributes from Velocity? Well, from a Velocity theme (*.vm), you can simply do something like: $request.getAttribute("USER_ID") or... ...

Brett Swaim | Nov 30, 2007 12:06 AM

I love Johnny Rockets Here is a pic of the Ohio crew in the new Johnny Rockets in CMH

Alexander Chow | Nov 28, 2007 5:15 AM

Pentaho has created a set of sample portlets for integration with a JSR-168 compliant portlet container. Though not designed explicitly for Liferay, I have started a Wiki for the installation of...

Jorge Ferrer | Nov 27, 2007 9:55 PM

It's been a while since my last post, but here I'm at it again. This will be the first of a series of posts where I plan to write about the latest improvements to Liferay as we develope them. I...

Shepherd Ching | Nov 25, 2007 2:36 PM

Inside public men toilets at Dalian city of Mainland China, you may read this sign when you stand in front of urinal. 向前一小步, 文明一大步 One small step forward, one giant leap for civilization ...

Richard Sezov | Nov 21, 2007 8:43 PM

What's this? Two blog posts within five minutes? Yes, well, I thought this would be appropriate as we are about to celebrate Thanksgiving here in the United States. I've had this hanging on my wall...

Richard Sezov | Nov 21, 2007 8:33 PM

Touch typists (like me) don't like to take their hands off the home row of the keyboard if they can at all help it. If I'm in the middle of doing something requiring intense concentration (such as...

Minhchau Dang | Nov 21, 2007 1:31 AM

In Eclipse, everything is a plugin, including the IDE itself. So, if there's something which bothers you, all you need to do is replace the plugin with something which works in a way more...

James Min | Nov 21, 2007 12:03 AM

A lot of people I run into at trainings and on consulting gigs ask this question: "How do I access Liferay via Web Services?" Well, there are 2 basic things you need: 1) A way to get the stubs...

Nate Cavanaugh | Nov 20, 2007 2:00 AM

All I have to say is wow. Pure, unadulterated WOW. I have been waiting for the iPod of books to reach us, and I truly thought it would be either Sony's Librie, or more likely Apple. But it turns...

Neil Griffin | Nov 19, 2007 7:52 PM

In recent days, some of the engineers at Liferay reported some amazing performance gains with Liferay's Ant build system by using Linux instead of Windows. Well this peaked my curiosity to say the...