Blogs

Barrie Selack | Dec 8, 2010 11:50 PM

Many people have asked, "How can I embed a portlet in web content". It's actually quite simple, once you know how. So I'll walk you through it. It;s done via a runtime-portlet tag. The actual...

Olaf Kock | Dec 6, 2010 2:55 PM

If you are living in a country where the ASCII character set is often almost sufficient but you need to ensure that you can handle UTF-8 well - how do you ensure that? You might not know a language...

Bryan H Cheung | Dec 1, 2010 10:07 PM

Liferay had the chance to be a platinum sponsor at the Open Source Conference 2010, organized by Red Hat and Accenture. At almost 450 attendees, it was the Benelux region's largest-ever OSS focused...

Michael Young | Dec 1, 2010 5:46 PM

Recently I needed to set up SSL in my development environment in order to debug an issue. I needed to make sure that Tomcat could serve SSL content properly As an Http client, the JVM could accept...

Alexander Chow | Dec 1, 2010 11:49 AM

In October, Apple released for OS X their latest update of Java. (There was this whole hoopla about whether or not Java would cease to exist on OS X, but then Apple announced that it would be...

James Falkner | Nov 30, 2010 8:38 PM

Despite the US Holiday, we have lots of items in this week's roundup! Finalist and Proteon hosted the fist ever Dutch Liferay Community Event on November 23 and it was a huge success. Go check out...

Bryan H Cheung | Nov 29, 2010 12:49 PM

As some of you may know, Liferay decided earlier this year to make a strategic investment in growing the European market. To that end, Joseph Shum, our former Alliance Manager for North America,...

Olaf Kock | Nov 28, 2010 12:41 PM

One of the first things I did with Liferay (years back) was the development of a custom theme. Support for this in the Plugins SDK works really smooth and theme development is well documented. One...

Bavithra Rajendran | Nov 26, 2010 5:39 AM

Desktop Gadgets are very popular and I wanted to write a simple Liferay gadget for windows 7 and at last came up with a desktop gadget that has frequently used links of Liferay. I call this as...

James Falkner | Nov 24, 2010 9:21 PM

Open source projects and products suffer from a unique problem when it comes to managing bug reports. The open nature of the community means you'll get many more excellent bugs filed as compared...

Igor Spasić | Nov 24, 2010 8:08 PM

Remember: For JSP tags with dynamic-attributes, be careful to use proper case of defined attribute names; especially if scriptlets are used as attributes values. Look at following two usages of...

James Falkner | Nov 22, 2010 3:55 PM

Updates from around the Liferay community! Don't forget to take the CMS Market Survey. It would be awesome if Liferay is well represented here. Takes about 20 minutes and can be anonymous (but if...

James Falkner | Nov 17, 2010 6:59 PM

"It's that time of year again. Digital agency Water & Stone is running its annual survey on the open source content management market. The data proceeds go to benefit the subsequent Open Source CMS...

James Falkner | Nov 15, 2010 11:15 PM

Hey gang, I wanted to update you on some recent community news and activities going on.. The Liferay Italy Symposium had over 150 attendees, thanks to those that attended. We are looking forward to...

Jeffrey Handa | Nov 12, 2010 3:09 AM

First of all, greetings to everyone in the Liferay Community. I've been lucky enough to meet many of you around the world over the last two years and I look forward to meeting more of you in the...

James Falkner | Nov 9, 2010 8:13 PM

First off, many thanks to the Liferay team for giving me a chance to be a part of it all. I think these are exciting times for open source and will continue to be for quite some time. I came from...

Ruth Coca | Nov 4, 2010 1:56 PM

Hello everyone! Not bad for a first post, WSRP.... a rough one, as someone told me recently, but guess what? Liferay makes it soooo easy for you! ;) Just download and install the WSRP portlet...

Bruno Farache | Nov 4, 2010 2:04 AM

(English version at the bottom) No último dia 27 de outubro realizamos nosso primeiro roadshow na América do Sul em conjunto com SEA Tecnologia, parceira da Liferay Brasil. O evento nos surpreendeu...

Michael C. Han | Oct 29, 2010 9:39 PM

As much as Brian wants to stick with System.outs to do debugging, I would go with a proper debugger any day. Each time I use the IntelliJ debugger, I thank the engineers @ IDEA for putting a...

Igor Spasić | Oct 29, 2010 3:44 PM

Although Liferays jboss-web.xml is set correctly, JBoss 5.1 is still picking up the older hibernate-validator.jar from the commons/lib folder. The exception coming while starting JBoss is:...