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Jeffrey Handa | Oct 9, 2013 1:11 PM

(We’re offering a worldwide Liferay Certification promotion October-November! See below for details.) Since the launch of the Liferay Certification Program, I’ve had many people ask me what’s the...

Manuel de la Peña | Oct 8, 2013 1:43 PM

Hello Continuous Readers! I'm here again to share a new CI practice in a very small pill. Do you remember a time when you had some tests that continuously failed, and nobody had bandwith to work...

Neil Griffin | Sep 6, 2013 6:09 PM

On September 5, 2013 Liferay released the 4th General Availability (GA) release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.3-ga4 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.1.x -- including 6.1.2 CE and 6.1.30 EE) Liferay Faces...

Jeffrey Handa | Sep 4, 2013 10:54 PM

If you’ve been around the Liferay community for any length of time you’ve probably heard some discussion about Liferay offering a certification. It’s something that we’ve wanted to do for quite a...

Manuel de la Peña | Aug 27, 2013 6:39 AM

Hello my friends! Here I'm again after a long time without writting about CI in Liferay. If you remember my last post, it described the importance of reverting those commits that break the build as...

Iliyan Peychev | Aug 15, 2013 1:20 PM

AlloyUI is the engine which drives the UI of all Liferay products. Since it was created in 2009, it has grown really fast and we are very close to the point where we will release ver. 2.0. We will...

Bruno Farache | Aug 5, 2013 12:22 PM

We just released a new update for Sync Android and iOS! The most important improvements are: Browse files while you are offline Move folders and files Performance boost While you are online,...

Manuel de la Peña | Aug 1, 2013 10:24 AM

In this blog post I want to talk about developers mentality, about how they (we) create software that never fails, and brights more than the sun, and is faster than a jet plane... or not? No,...

Máté Thurzó | Jul 25, 2013 11:01 AM

Staging is one of the unique fetaures of the Liferay portal, serving customers to be able to handle their content across the portal. The feature has been around for a while, and was always a...

Sergio González | Jul 17, 2013 12:33 PM

Lately I have been working on a new feature that many users have asked for a long time and Liferay didn't support it (yet). As most of you know, friendly URLs are very important nowadays for...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Manuel de la Peña | Jun 14, 2013 10:25 AM

Hi all! This is my third blog post about Continuous Integration best practices, and today I want to explain the benefits of being patient after sending commits for being reviewed. As developers, we...

Neil Griffin | Jun 3, 2013 6:53 PM

On June 1, 2013 Liferay released the 3rd General Availability (GA) release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.2-ga3 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.1.x) Liferay Faces 3.0.2-ga3 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.0.x)...

Manuel de la Peña | May 31, 2013 12:08 PM

Following with these blog posts series about good practices in Continuous Integration, I want to talk about the benefits of running tests. Practice 2: Always run the tests When a developer commits...