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Ronald Sarayudej | Nov 30, 2012 1:39 AM

Liferay.com is getting a facelift. Fresh theme, content, re-flowed flows - the whole 10 yards (why would anyone want to go only 9 yards, when it doesn't even get them a 1st down?). And we're not...

Ken Dong | Nov 27, 2012 10:28 PM

Some of you who may have been to this year's North American Symposium you may have heard Bryan Cheung share about our partnership with an Inner City Organization called World Impact. Here's a...

Jorge Ferrer | Nov 22, 2012 4:13 PM

Here I am again for a second entry on the series of Liferay Architecture. This time I'm going to talk a bit more about the services layer of Liferay. As can be seen in the architecture diagram with...

Joshua Asbury | Nov 21, 2012 2:56 PM

In response to some of the recent happenings at HP with the purchase of Autonomy, TechCrunch has released its verdict that "The enterprise software space is a giant, stinking mess." Frankly, I...

Olaf Kock | Nov 13, 2012 3:25 PM

If you're coming to the italian symposium, why not come to the community meetup the night before. All the details are in the italian usergroup's messageboard and wiki. Presenze presunte il...

Jorge Ferrer | Nov 12, 2012 6:08 PM

Hey guys, As you have already heard we have done quite a few symposiums during October, starting with the one in San Francisco, followed by Germany and finishing with Spain. And by the way, if you...

Ronald Sarayudej | Nov 9, 2012 10:07 PM

In a previous blog post we mentioned that we are currently upgrading the Liferay.com site. We wanted to share more about that process in hopes that it'll be helpful to other Liferay users who want...

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 31, 2012 9:37 PM

Here in the LA office we don't officially do anything special for Halloween, but lots of people still dress up in costume anyway... which almost makes it funnier. Here are a few snapshots from the...

Neil Griffin | Oct 31, 2012 3:04 PM

Liferay has entered into a new technology partnership with PrimeTek Informatics, maker of PrimeFaces. Customers who have purchased Liferay EE and PrimeFaces PRO now enjoy the benefit of a...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Oct 25, 2012 3:09 PM

A few minutes ago I have finished my talk about Liferay, modularity and OSGI at the Spain symposium. I am pretty sure I have covered the main points I have planned before the talk but I have many...

James Falkner | Oct 24, 2012 4:19 PM

I believe it's really important in any community to give credit where credit is due, whenever possible. When you give, even if you don't expect monetary or other material reward, it's nice to be...

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 18, 2012 7:21 PM

Godzilla not included Coming to a mobile device near you Things have been going fairly well in converting the Spain Symposium website into a mobile-friendly experience. The goal is to give our...

Neil Griffin | Oct 17, 2012 4:33 PM

UPDATE: 10/30: Congratulations to the London Java Community and to CloudBees! And thanks to everyone who voted for Liferay. UPDATE 10/19: Liferay Sr. Software Architect Ray Augé spoke on behalf...

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 13, 2012 12:17 AM

Things are chugging along here on the webteam side - there's nothing better than getting a lot of work done and it also being Friday @ 5pm. Not everyone gets a chance to visit the Magical Kingdom...

Ray Augé | Oct 11, 2012 10:36 PM

I had planned to speak at this years North American Symposium about our ongoing work with OSGi. However, sadly due to several different factors that didn't happen. It's too bad because as it turns...

Ray Augé | Oct 11, 2012 9:55 PM

At this year's Liferay North American Symposium I did a talk on Big Data. The goal of the talk was to illustrate some cases where Liferay and the broad notion of "Big Data" intersect. Most...

Ray Augé | Oct 10, 2012 9:45 PM

I'm almost back home from San Francisco after yesterday's completion of Liferay's 2012 North American Symposium. I'm quite exhausted but what a great event to be a part of. For this small town...

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 10, 2012 9:12 PM

Sometimes lightning strikes. Sometimes lightning strikes twice. And sometimes lighting strikes a bunch of times while you're already busy with the Liferay North America Symposium and a pending...

Olaf Kock | Oct 8, 2012 10:48 AM

If you are attending this year's european symposium, make sure to be one night early. As last year, we'll have a community meetup the night before. As we have a new venue this year, the meetup will...

Richard Sezov | Oct 5, 2012 10:31 PM

Since we haven't been announcing it much, you're probably unaware that we've recently started making weekly updates to the Liferay documentation. This is one of the reasons we haven't published the...

Cody Hoag | Oct 4, 2012 1:44 PM

It's finally here! OpenSocial gadgets is the next great topic now residing in Liferay's Development Guide. Gadgets are similar to portlets because they can be added to your portal's pages and used...

Jeffrey Handa | Oct 4, 2012 5:01 AM

By now, everyone in the Liferay community has probably heard about Liferay Marketplace and hopefully many of you are getting excited about developing and deploying your own apps to the Marketplace....

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 3, 2012 9:27 PM

Hi. Well, guess who else uses Liferay? Liferay! Duh! Well, not totally "duh". It may be obvious that we use Liferay... but how do we use it? How does our business operate with Liferay products,...

James Falkner | Sep 26, 2012 5:17 PM

If you are attending this year's Liferay North America Symposium in two weeks in San Francisco, on Sunday evening (the evening before the event begins) Liferay is hosting a community meetup. This...

Manuel de la Peña | Sep 25, 2012 6:19 PM

Transcribo en esta entrada de blog unos pensamientos de hace unos días, espero que alguien pueda aprovechar algo de ella: "Bueno, aquí estoy otra vez al teclado, deseando que el sentido de estas...

James Falkner | Sep 25, 2012 2:49 PM

Hey all! As your community manager, I am always trying to learn from you as much as possible, in order to make our community a better place to share ideas, meet new people, and generally grow the...

Cody Hoag | Sep 17, 2012 6:32 PM

The Knowledge Management team is pleased to bring an extensive guide for one of Liferay Developer Studio's newest features: Kaleo Designer for Java. The Kaleo Designer for Java facilitates back-end...

Julio Camarero | Sep 14, 2012 4:30 PM

Did you know it is possible to create a plugin to extend an existing plugin? This is a great feature of Liferay plugins that I usually tend to forget but it has been available since 4.3. If you...

Jeffrey Handa | Sep 13, 2012 5:00 PM

Hello Belgian community members. I'll be in Brussels and would like to get together with any interested members of the Liferay community on Tuesday, September 18th. We'll meet at the Brussels...

Julio Camarero | Sep 11, 2012 9:42 PM

I have started playing with device detection when coding Liferay apps and I have found very useful the Device API in Liferay 6.1. This API allows you to detect the capabilities of the device...

Carolina Moreno | Sep 7, 2012 11:49 AM

Si te mueves en el mundo de la tecnología y de internet, la respuesta a estas preguntas es “sí”, con mucho mayor motivo que en anteriores ediciones del evento. Es el encuentro más importante de...

Alfredo Del Castillo Villalba | Sep 5, 2012 9:07 AM

¡Buenos días a todos! Mi primera entrada en los blog de Liferay va dedicada a hablar de sendas novedades disponibles ya para el uso de todos los usuarios de Liferay. En primer lugar, hablare de la...

Greg Amerson | Sep 4, 2012 11:08 AM

Today we are pleased to announce the latest release of Liferay Developer Studio version 1.6.0. Here on my blog I usually just cover Liferay IDE releases, so just to bring everyone up to speed,...

Neil Griffin | Aug 31, 2012 1:17 PM

The new location for downloading Liferay Faces artifacts (JARs, WARs, etc.) is Maven Central. As part of the migration of Liferay Faces from portletfaces.org to liferay.com, the...

Jorge Ferrer | Aug 31, 2012 10:05 AM

While many people have already find out by themselves I think it's about time to make it official: Liferay's source code is now at GitHub. That includes all of the projects: Liferay Portal Liferay...

Ray Augé | Aug 23, 2012 3:55 PM

In order to maintain its extensive deployment matrix, Liferay up to 6.1 has been locked to Java 5 APIs. However, Java 5 started its EOL cycle on April 8th, 2007 and completely it on October 8th of...

Ricardo Funke | Aug 22, 2012 4:53 PM

A Liferay cluster is simply a matter of put some properties in portal-ext.properties. First you'll put these two properties: cluster.link.enabled=true...

James Falkner | Aug 22, 2012 1:57 PM

Guess what? It's time for another Community Roundup! I know it's been a while since the last roundup. It's been quite a busy last few months in the Liferay Community. We saw the release of...

Neil Griffin | Aug 22, 2012 11:45 AM

UPDATE: Liferay Faces in Maven Central On August 22, 2012 Liferay issued a press release announcing the first General Availability (GA) release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.0-ga1 (JSF...

Joshua Asbury | Aug 20, 2012 9:17 PM

With our roots firmly planted in the values of open source, Liferay continually makes efforts to support ventures that embody the spirit of openness, creativity and independence. Through vehicles...