Blogs

Jeffrey Handa | Jun 18, 2011 5:52 AM

Greetings everyone. There has been a lot going on in the Liferay Training department and I wanted to give you a quick update of what we’ve been up to and what’s coming up in the next couple...

Paul Hinz | Jun 17, 2011 7:17 PM

We recently posted a description of our trademark policy to help the community more easily understand the proper use of Liferay trademarks. There are two categories of use defined within the...

Bruno Farache | Jun 16, 2011 2:46 PM

We just integrated our Chat portlet with Jabber! This means portal users can now choose their preferred desktop chat client (such as Pidgin, Trillian or Adium) to chat with other users, here's an...

Julio Camarero | Jun 15, 2011 7:01 AM

Many people ask us frequently, is liferay accessible? Does it validate level AA of [FILL_WITH_YOUR_ACCESSIBILITY_STANDARD_HERE]? (It could be WCAG1.0, WCAG2.0, Section 508, RGAA...) And it is not...

Francisco Fernandez | Jun 14, 2011 12:24 PM

MADRID--Liferay España, filial del primer suministrador mundial de plataformas Web corporativas Open Source, organiza el próximo 30 de junio en Sevilla un encuentro con empresas y usuarios de...

James Falkner | Jun 13, 2011 5:01 PM

8 Days to the official start of summer in the northern hemisphere. 2 days until the France Symposium. That sounds like a good reason for another community roundup! Hope everyone has a safe and...

Paul Hinz | Jun 10, 2011 9:59 PM

Liferay Portal provides an excellent platform for building web applications, websites, and portals, but recently customers have been looking at a new category of web applications called "social...

James Falkner | Jun 10, 2011 5:25 PM

The past couple of years I've seen many examples of using Liferay's built-in JSON services in various ways. The architecture and syntax of this feature has undergone several refinements in the...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Jun 10, 2011 10:24 AM

This is the first entry on my Liferay blog so, first of all, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Miguel Pastor and I have only been working four months in Liferay (since March 2011) but...

Steve George | Jun 9, 2011 8:25 AM

After months of preparation, careful planning, Liferay Hungary Kft, finally hosted its first annual Hungary Symposium with over 100 attendees who were at awe with the new offerings Liferay has to...

Edward Han | Jun 2, 2011 4:21 PM

Starting in 6.1 there will be a change in how caches are configured for the portal and plugins. This new mechanism only applies for ehcache caches. Changes to default cache configuration:...

Daniel Sanz | May 31, 2011 12:44 PM

Today we have created the Liferay Portal project at translate.liferay.com As part of our effort of improving the Liferay translation process, some time ago we set up a Pootle site and created...

Igor Spasić | May 30, 2011 4:56 PM

Some news regarding JSON serialization and exposing service API as JSON web services... We have a new JSON serialization tool that we call 'loose serialization'. It automatically serializes any...

James Min | May 27, 2011 3:42 PM

I finally got around to watching the film, Welcome To Macintosh. I thought it was hilarious, whether you are an Apple fanboy, a staunch Windows user, or Linux freak (like me). I thought this...

Nate Cavanaugh | May 23, 2011 5:06 AM

Bryan recently blogged about the new site design and how Liferay.com is displaying a mobile formatted website for different types of devices (go ahead and test it out, hop into any browser and...

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...