Blogs

James Falkner | May 19, 2011 8:39 PM

Wow, has it really been one month since my last roundup? Apologies! As usual, there are many moving parts to the World of Liferay and I spend a lot of time trying to keep up with it all, and...

Olaf Kock | May 19, 2011 4:29 PM

Bonjour, the swedish community meeting is just over and the french symposium is just around the corner. Nevertheless: I'll be in Paris in the week before the symposium, and I'd like to meet people...

Paul Hinz | May 17, 2011 7:22 PM

Our Liferay East Coast Symposium was held last week outside Washington D.C., doubling the size of last year's ECS. The event was designed to support community members, prospective Liferay...

Bryan H Cheung | May 13, 2011 10:10 AM

I am happy to announce that Liferay.com is now running on Liferay Portal 6 EE. The re-fresh is a minor one with respect to content but a major infrastructural upgrade that will pave the way for...

Richard Sezov | May 12, 2011 10:03 PM

I've learned a lot while writing Liferay in Action. I'm going through my final edits now before the book goes through its production cycle, tightening up the prose and making sure everything is as...

Ronald Sarayudej | May 11, 2011 5:15 PM

Thaixperience Region: Thailand Version: Liferay Portal 5.0 Thaixperience is a website that offers the full scoop on Thai arts, history, culture, food, region, activities, and hotspots. With...

Olaf Kock | May 6, 2011 3:42 PM

Working for Liferay in my position means travelling a lot. This is great in that I see many interesting places in the world. However, to make it more interesting, I'd like to meet many interesting...

James Falkner | May 3, 2011 5:31 PM

Recently I came across a forum post asking about deploying Liferay on Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk. Elastic Beanstalk (EB) is basically a managed Amazon EC2 instance running Linux and a...

Shuyang Zhou | Apr 27, 2011 12:02 AM

The short answer to the title question is YES. However a longer version is : After LPS-16789 you don't really need to worry about it. The possibility for seeing an actual conflict is negligible for...

Ronald Sarayudej | Apr 21, 2011 10:13 PM

TVBEurope Magazine Online Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 TVBEurope is a hub that offers news involving the broadcasting industry in Europe. Their site features updates on business models, important...

James Falkner | Apr 20, 2011 7:53 PM

Recently I did a Liferay LIVE presentation on driving community participation with Liferay. I'll post links to the video and slides once they are available. The main topic was how to encourage...

James Falkner | Apr 13, 2011 6:18 PM

Miss me yet? It's been a busy several weeks here at Liferay so I've been a little absent (not disconnected, just heads down). We had a very successful showing at the Gartner Portals, Content,...

Bryan H Cheung | Apr 13, 2011 2:51 PM

I just got back from our first Liferay Roadshow in Amsterdam yesterday and gave a talk about how identity and interactions are changing due to paradigm shifts in technology and corporate culture....

Igor Spasić | Apr 7, 2011 9:42 AM

Although this tale is not about folder structure (most developers have it similar), we will start with one. This is how all my Liferay portal project folders look like: I have several project...

Paul Hinz | Apr 1, 2011 12:00 AM

Were you able to visit us at the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit in Los Angeles this last week? We presented to numerous customers and interested business leaders in our booth. ...

Daniel Sanz | Mar 28, 2011 1:51 PM

We have been working for a while in the task of integrating Liferay translations and Pootle. The overall goal is to make it easier for translators and contributors to improve the Liferay project by...

Ronald Sarayudej | Mar 23, 2011 7:14 PM

Scion Owners Region: US Version: Liferay Portal 6.0 The Scion Owners website was designed to make it easier and faster for people to get plugged into the Scion car user community. Scion drivers or...

Ronald Sarayudej | Mar 22, 2011 7:42 PM

Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten Region: Germany Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten is a state university in the southwestern part of Germany (Württemberg). The school...

Venkata Mukku | Mar 14, 2011 9:29 AM

This blog will talk about how to create basic Liferay portlet with maven and integrate drools flow as a rule engine with Liferay portlet. Drools 5 introduce the Business Logic integration Platform...

Jorge Ferrer | Mar 11, 2011 6:22 PM

One of the questions that comes up more often when I talk to community members, partners and customers is, should I use communities or organizations in my project? If you haven't asked yourself...

Richard Sezov | Mar 10, 2011 8:28 PM

The Liferay in Action MEAP was updated today and now includes all the chapters that will be a part of the book. I still have some editing to do, but we're getting pretty close now. From the Manning...

Ronald Sarayudej | Mar 10, 2011 7:48 PM

Exercito Brasileiro Region: Brazil Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 EE Exercito Brasileiro is a government website devoted to news, recruiting, and events revolving the national army of Brazil. Their...

Bryan H Cheung | Mar 10, 2011 10:44 AM

"Rather than boring your customers to death, there is a clear opportunity to put the dull corporate website to rest. Then resurrect it as a platform for true community engagement that functions as...

James Falkner | Mar 7, 2011 4:33 PM

Hi Gang, welcome back to another edition of Community Roundup. We've had another exciting several weeks of activity in the community, culminating with the release of Liferay Portal 6 CE GA4 (also...

Jorge Ferrer | Mar 4, 2011 8:53 AM

Hey guys, I'm not very active lately due to the great growth that we are experiencing in Spain and the increasing work associated to the upcoming new version, Liferay 6.1. The reason for this blog...

James Falkner | Mar 2, 2011 5:04 PM

Recently Liferay completely an upgrade of the software that powers issues.liferay.com. We upgrade to JIRA 4.2.4, which is around 5 years newer than the one before! As you can imagine, there have...

Greg Amerson | Feb 25, 2011 9:23 PM

Hello everyone, *See Update * I just noticed that Eclipse has released Eclipse Helios SR2 (3.6.2). Also last week we released a bug fix release for Liferay IDE 1.2.1. Unfortunately I have just...

Alexander Chow | Feb 25, 2011 11:48 AM

Last year, there was a huge buzz about this new protocol call CMIS that just was released at 1.0. Much like JCR, CMIS is a protocol that allows interoperability for document repositories of...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 25, 2011 12:44 AM

The Official Portal of The UAE Government Region: The United Arab Emirates Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The United Arab Emirates (UAE) sits in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 18, 2011 1:17 AM

Careers at Total Region: France Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Total operates as the fifth largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas company in the world and is also a world-class...

James Falkner | Feb 17, 2011 5:01 PM

Yesterday we wrapped up the first sprint of the Liferay Community's 100 Paper Cuts program, and at at 80% solution rate, I'm calling it a success! A big round of applause goes to the volunteers of...

Ray Augé | Feb 16, 2011 8:52 PM

All secure RSS feeds now transparently support BASIC Authentication. The behavior is such that when you're logged in, the feeds will simply work as expected if you open them directly in the...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 15, 2011 12:23 AM

University of Eastern Finland Region: Finland Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The University of Eastern Finland stands as one of the largest universities in Finland. It seeks to be among the top three...

Alexander Chow | Feb 11, 2011 10:20 PM

One of the nice things about working for Liferay is the flexibility I have in where I can work. Though originally from LA, my wife and I currently live in the UK and I work from home in the UK. ...

James Falkner | Feb 11, 2011 2:42 PM

Time for another installment of Community Roundup! I enjoy taking a tour of the Liferay Community in these blog posts, I hope you find them useful. Lots of items of interest in the last 2 weeks,...

Greg Amerson | Feb 10, 2011 10:48 PM

Hello all, Its been awhile since the last Liferay IDE release as I've been busy on some tooling for our EE customers, however, along the way I've been adding new features and improvements to IDE as...

Samuel Kong | Feb 10, 2011 9:33 AM

Liferay Portal provides a WebDAV URL to all documents in the Document Library so that you can access the documents from your computer's desktop. While this is a great feature, it can be a little...

James Falkner | Feb 9, 2011 9:24 PM

Liferay East Coast Symposium 2011 Liferay's third annual East Coast Symposium (ECS) will be held in beautiful Leesburg, Virginia on May 10-11, 2011. ECS 2011 will be a great opportunity for...

Joshua Asbury | Feb 7, 2011 5:44 PM

While performing a demonstration last week, I added the Mail portlet into a user's private pages and set it up using my Gmail account. Everything went fine during the demo, but when I tried to...

Richard Sezov | Feb 4, 2011 8:56 PM

Well, we're marching right along on our way to completion. Manning has just updated the Liferay in Action MEAP with the next-to-last chapter, on Ext plugins. With this chapter, you learn all about...