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Neil Griffin | May 19, 2009 9:39 PM

I have the privilege of speaking about Social Networking Portlets with ICEfaces Ajax Push at the following three conferences: JSF Summit Dec 1-4, 2009 Orlando, FL CommunityOne West Here I'll be...

Michael C. Han | May 7, 2009 3:09 PM

A common story we hear from the community and our customers is that Liferay has a lot of powerful features. However, it is difficult for those who want to just create a community and start...

Michael C. Han | May 6, 2009 8:46 PM

After many months of testing, tuning, and more testing, we have finally completed the tuning and benchmarking of the portal. We finished the tunings for 5.1 Enterprise over a month ago and are in...

Alberto Montero | May 6, 2009 12:46 PM

The web has changed. You can call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0 or whatever you want but the truth is that websites are now more than ever interconected. Originally we had links, later came the ability to...

Neil Griffin | May 6, 2009 12:10 PM

Back in October 2008 at the JSFOne conference, I was interviewed by Kito Mann of JSF Central regarding Liferay and ICEfaces. The podcast and transcript were recently published at the JSF Central...

Ray Augé | May 1, 2009 3:52 AM

Well, over the last couple years I've been largely working from a laptop. I thought I liked it... until recently I simply needed more power. I went ahead and did some research and found that there...

Brett Swaim | Apr 20, 2009 6:37 PM

As of trunk revision 29951, there is now a way to get to the next and previous blog entry from the blogs entry view page. What is the communities thoughts on the previous and next button placement?...

Brett Swaim | Apr 14, 2009 8:36 PM

You can now configure your File Upload settings from control panel (5.2.3+), including allowed extensions and max file sizes!

Brett Swaim | Apr 14, 2009 8:33 PM

In the never ending effort to make Liferay easier to configure, mail settings can now be set in the control panel (5.2.3+). To do so, go to the control panel and click server administration, then...

Brett Swaim | Apr 14, 2009 8:15 PM

I made a slight change to the login portlet that gives the user the option to create their own password, instead of always having a random password emailed to them at creation time. To enable this...

Brett Swaim | Apr 14, 2009 8:06 PM

After some time of using our message boards, I have realized that when you are searching for something it isn't very clear what scope you are in. I have made some changes...

Neil Griffin | Apr 13, 2009 3:37 PM

JSF has a simple Inversion-of-Control (IoC) container called the JSF Managed Bean Facility (MBF). Although it has a verbose XML syntax, and is not as robust as the Spring BeanFactory,...

Brian Chan | Apr 12, 2009 11:41 AM

This is a worker at my hotel who helped me replace my laptop hard drive. It was 4 am and I had given up because I didn't have a small screwdriver. We tried everything. Finally, he creatively used...

Brian Chan | Apr 11, 2009 11:04 AM

My stay in India was much more comfortable this time around than two years ago. Infrastructure is improving. My hotel was quite nice. In fact, it's as nice if not nicer than what I have at home. I...

Brian Chan | Apr 11, 2009 10:38 AM

Here are some pictures of our new India office. It's in the Raheja Arcade, smack in the center of the Koramangala, the IT district of Bangalore. I was deeply humbled to witness our expansion into...

Arcko Duan | Apr 6, 2009 3:25 AM

Woopra is a powerful tool in beta stage now. See http://www.woopra.com/ for more information. To use it in liferay, currently you need to apply a account and active it on wroopa site. Then you...

Shuyang Zhou | Mar 25, 2009 4:16 AM

When people say JVM tuning, most of the time they mean tuning GC. Before we start to tune JVM for Liferay Portal, let us talk about some basic conceptions of GC. As we all know jvm can handle...

Richard Sezov | Mar 20, 2009 6:33 PM

From the pen of my daughter (age three):

Nate Cavanaugh | Mar 19, 2009 5:19 PM

If you're as cutting edge as our own Jonathan Neal, you might have downloaded the IE8 final that was released this morning at 9am PST. IE8 is a HUGE improvement towards standards, and while it...

Alexander Chow | Mar 19, 2009 2:28 PM

I have been recently working on the very interesting task of making the Liferay database shardable. What does this mean? There is a good introduction to shards here, but basically it is a way of...