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James Falkner | Jan 25, 2011 9:27 PM

Howdy folks, time for another community roundup.. It's been an action-packed couple of weeks at Liferay. The first month of 2011 is almost over, and we're chugging along nicely. Lots of items to...

Igor Spasić | Jan 19, 2011 11:41 AM

Let's read the tags content in following XML snippet: <tag>foo&amp;boo</tag> with the single call to (supposing everything is initialized correctly up to this point): xmlStreamReader.getText() We...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jan 18, 2011 9:35 PM

School Specialty Region: US Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 EE School Specialty is a educational solutions provider focused on providing creative and comprehensive tools that will help students...

Mika Koivisto | Jan 17, 2011 10:23 PM

This is a new cool feature I worked on with Brian and it’s coming on 6.1 as well as 6.0 EE SP2 and 5.2 EE SP6. With this feature you can add new struts actions to portal from a hook plugin and you...

Ray Augé | Jan 17, 2011 7:39 PM

Last week I wrote about a hook we wrote for Expandos using MongoDB. I just wanted to let you know that it just finished review and is ready for consumption. It's been renamed to mongodb-hook in...

Igor Spasić | Jan 14, 2011 9:12 AM

I wrote wiki article about how to configure JAAS that uses OpenLDAP to auth users. Article also announce new feature i.e. portal property: portal.jaas.auth.type that allows JAAS to authenticate...

Jeffrey Handa | Jan 14, 2011 3:29 AM

Hey Everyone, This last year has been an exciting time to be involved in the Liferay Training Program and I wanted to let you know what we've been up to and to give you a preview of some of the...

James Falkner | Jan 13, 2011 8:29 PM

Hi all, welcome to another installment of Community Roundup! The last one was 2 weeks ago (been busy with a few other initiatives, see below), so I've got a lot to share. Once the community...

James Falkner | Jan 11, 2011 9:05 PM

Thanks to all of you, Liferay has an active and growing community that has made a lot of contributions in 2010. However, with that growth comes inevitable growing pains! One of the areas in which...

Ray Augé | Jan 9, 2011 4:06 AM

Update: The expando-mongodb-hook plugin is now committed to SVN and available from trunk. Over the past few months the hype around NoSQL type databases had really been heating up the tech news and...

Dennis Ju | Jan 5, 2011 12:05 AM

A growing number of websites are adopting OAuth to authorize third-party applications to interact with a user's resources. For example, back on August 31, 2010, Twitter flipped the kill-switch on...

Sergio González | Jan 4, 2011 5:12 PM

I want to make a quick update regarding the latest thing we've been working on: new way of publishing content with the Asset Publisher. The 'classic' way of publishing content with the Asset...

James Falkner | Dec 30, 2010 8:02 PM

Greetings from the next-to-last day of 2010. Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season! Liferay is working hard to bring you another great year of technology, innovation, and fun. I for...

Richard Sezov | Dec 27, 2010 5:45 PM

The Liferay in Action MEAP update came out on Christmas Eve, so I wanted to make sure that I let everyone knew about it in case you, like me, have been offline for the past few days. So Merry...

Shuyang Zhou | Dec 22, 2010 6:55 AM

A lot of Liferay TagLibs use including JSP files to present their content. Is there any difference between TagLib used JSPs and the normal ones? Functionally, they are the same thing. But when we...

James Falkner | Dec 21, 2010 12:08 AM

Happy Holidays from Liferay and our community! Hope everyone has a safe and fun-filled holiday season. Liferay had an exciting and fun-filled 2010. Partner program expansion, new Liferay offices...

Sten Martinez | Dec 16, 2010 11:21 PM

Often we need to display data in a legacy schema. The usual way of doing this in any other application is to set up a new datasource, optionally set up an ORM, and display the data yourself....

James Falkner | Dec 10, 2010 7:24 PM

Finally returned from Liferay's annual employee retreat! It was a fun-filled week and it's great to put a face with all the names I interact with on a daily basis. I hope to see many of our...

Brian Chan | Dec 10, 2010 6:59 PM

We decided to relax a bit Wednesday night and headed out to a Lakers game. After all, we are in LA, and we love basketball here. We had some pretty good seats. Here's a pic of Kobe laying it up....

Brian Chan | Dec 9, 2010 8:03 PM

We flew almost the whole company out to Los Angeles for our annual retreat. It's been a great few weeks of brainstorming and fellowship. If you're a Liferay user, community member, or a client -...