Blogs

Daniel Tyger | Jan 9, 2015 4:37 PM

Background and Need: Our campus portal (Site) administrators have a need to review permissions across their sites of various objects. In particular, we see requests for page, portlet, and Web...

Andrea Di Giorgi | Dec 26, 2014 8:29 AM

Hi everyone and Merry, Merry Christmas to all of you! In the last couple of months I had a lot of fun playing with Go, a very promising compiled, concurrent, garbage-collected, cross-platform...

Jorge Ferrer | Dec 23, 2014 10:39 PM

It’s the end of the year season and most programmers take a few days of to spend time with family and/or friends and of course check out some new technologies. While we know there are many exciting...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Dec 17, 2014 7:13 PM

On the Liferay Faces Team, we try to reply to as many posts in the Liferay Faces forums as we can. This has been extremely beneficial for our team and our project. If you're a developer, I want to...

Olaf Kock | Dec 16, 2014 9:50 PM

The nerdiest topic so far: I'm speaking to Thomas Schweiger, german national barista champion 2010-2012. He was sponsored by our german partner Prodyna to prepare coffee during this years Devcon...

David Kubitza | Dec 14, 2014 2:43 PM

At this year's Liferay DevCon, Suraj Bihari had an interesting session about short URLs. As I was about to do something like this anyway, I decided to make it public from the beginning. And now...

Olaf Kock | Dec 12, 2014 12:49 AM

I had a short meeting with Bryan Ho, Lead Graphic Designer at Liferay - With that role it's obvious that we're bridging the audio/visual gap again: A very visual topic in an audio only podcast. But...

Olaf Kock | Dec 11, 2014 11:26 PM

This is my conversation with Stian Sigvartsen, winner of the Marketplace App contest with his Social Apps Proxy (Link) and well known member of the UK Liferay usergroup, working in Devon and quite...

Jamie Sammons | Dec 8, 2014 7:02 PM

The Audience Targeting app enhances the engagement experience of your portal by providing the right information in the right context to your visitors in new and exciting ways. Audience Targeting...

Olaf Kock | Dec 4, 2014 11:27 AM

I'm talking with Brett Swaim, Principal Consultant at Liferay US, on application performance monitoring, horror stories and things to avoid. Brett is dealing with a lot of customers. He's one of...

Olaf Kock | Dec 4, 2014 11:04 AM

Another Devcon conversation - make sure not to miss this event next year! I grabbed Chema Balsas, Software Engineer at Liferay Spain, and Emil Öberg, Consultant at Monator Technologies, a Liferay...

Olaf Kock | Dec 4, 2014 9:45 AM

At Devcon, I took the opportunity to meet several people - stay tuned for several more episodes during the rest of this year. For this episode, I spoke with Zsigmond Rab. Zsigmond is Lead Engineer,...

Meera Prince | Dec 4, 2014 8:56 AM

Portlet is small fragment of dynamic content in the web page. And this dynamic content may be text,HTML,xml or some other MIME format. Portlet technology implemented by JSR 168 and JSR 286...

Juan Fernández | Nov 28, 2014 12:32 PM

Dear community! Based on market research and community feedback, we’ve seen that more and more companies are using location-based information to make important decisions. Also usage of...

Andrea Di Giorgi | Nov 27, 2014 1:19 AM

Greetings to all! As a proud member of this community, I always wanted to show my appreciation towards Liferay, its philosophy and the great people behind it. And that's why I spent the last few...

Greg Amerson | Nov 26, 2014 7:44 AM

Just a quite notice that we have pushed a new release of Liferay IDE version 2.2.1 that just pushes a few fixes for the latest major release including a nasty memory, GC bug here that would affect...

Cody Hoag | Nov 25, 2014 9:26 PM

You may have noticed that Liferay's new OAuth Provider application was released on Marketplace last week. This utility authorizes third-party applications to interact with a user’s resources. OAuth...

Nicholas Gaskill | Nov 21, 2014 8:38 PM

I'm pleased to announce that there are two new tutorials on Liferay's Developer Network (LDN) for helping you with your Liferay Maven projects in Liferay IDE. Maven is a great build tool, but it...

Meera Prince | Nov 20, 2014 1:26 PM

When we work with liferay 6.2 portlet development some time we may get null or empty values when we access request parameters or form input values in the portlet action class. The reason is from...

Josiah Harrist | Nov 19, 2014 10:11 PM

Corporate data is a very fragile and important thing. It’s the kind of thing you don’t want to break, the same way you don’t want to break a favorite vase. Or an airplane. The cleanup tends to be...

James Falkner | Nov 19, 2014 10:04 PM

Wow. Just.. WOW. It's Liferay's 10th anniversary, and I've been blessed to be able to be a part of it the last several years, including this year. A big round of applause goes to you and our entire...

Marcus Hjortzén | Nov 19, 2014 9:50 AM

Feature toggling Have you ever had the delicate problem where you've made a new feature that the customer doesn't wish to activate quite yet? What do you do? One option is of course to comment out...

priti parmar | Nov 19, 2014 8:50 AM

If content creator wants to decide during creation in which order the different elements will be displayed in the article then there should be a field like DisplayOrder which decide the position of...

David Kubitza | Nov 18, 2014 7:37 AM

For all interested people which participated this years Unconference, here you have the information of my session: Sometimes one have the requirement to load a certain plugin before another. It's...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Nov 17, 2014 8:39 PM

Hola chic@s, Lo prometido es deuda y aquí podéis encontrar un pequeño sitio web que iré actualizando periódicamente con toda la información necesaria sobre el evento. Por el momento sólo están...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Nov 17, 2014 12:45 PM

In previous entries I’ve described how we can connect Liferay and Apache Kafka, and I’ve shown a couple of examples of how this integration could be done (you can find the first blog entry here...

Ryan Schuhler | Nov 14, 2014 11:20 AM

This post is written for those of you who have not yet upgraded to 6.2 (for whatever reason) but still want to give specific content to specific users. My goal is to present some of the code and...

Julian AFFAIRE | Nov 12, 2014 5:55 PM

Sometimes you have to add an autocomplete module on your page to search contacts or other datas. If you want to use the very good Typeahead plugin in Liferay to have search suggestions in Ajax the...

Julian AFFAIRE | Nov 12, 2014 4:09 PM

This is a solution to develop a portlet with a lazy loading mode. It is useful when you have a lot of portlets in your page and you don`t want to increase the loading time of the page. An...

Jayaram pokuri | Nov 3, 2014 10:38 AM

Liferay 6.2 has no longer supports the aui-dialog, aui-io etc,but all of them deprecated in 6.2. We need to use below mentioned AUI JS modules : ...

Jeffrey Handa | Oct 31, 2014 6:23 PM

The Liferay Certification team is very happy to announce the availability of the Liferay 6.2 Certified Professional Developer exam (LRP-624). This is an update to the popular Liferay 6.1 Certified...

Olaf Kock | Oct 31, 2014 5:44 PM

You probably know the basic installation instructions for Liferay Bundles: „unzip and run startup.sh“ - with this you get to a working Liferay installation in a minute. It will run with all...

Olaf Kock | Oct 31, 2014 8:07 AM

You probably know the basic installation instructions for Liferay Bundles: „unzip and run startup.sh“ - with this you get to a working Liferay installation in a minute. It will run with all...

Greg Amerson | Oct 31, 2014 7:40 AM

The Liferay IDE team is pleased to annouce the latest release version 2.2. Use the updatesite below to update your existing install or install for the first time....

Martin Yan | Oct 30, 2014 5:41 PM

When people visit your website, does it remind them of generic cola or Coca-Cola? Is it a unique and memorable experience? This question seems to be important as we consume more billboards,...

Olaf Kock | Oct 30, 2014 10:17 AM

Greetings Earthlings that come to Darmstadt for Devcon, the Unconference or LPSF Germany As last year, we'll have a community meetup. This year we'll be right outside Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof (main...

James Falkner | Oct 29, 2014 10:31 PM

UPDATE: Liferay Cloud Services has a new name! See this blog post for details on Liferay Connected Services! Today Liferay Cloud Services enters a new phase of its beta program - and now invites...

Jorge Ferrer | Oct 29, 2014 7:58 AM

It's been around 2 months since Milestone 1 and we are now ready for the second public deliverable of the ongoing Liferay Development: Liferay 7 Milestone 2. As usual it can be downloaded in...

Bradley Wood | Oct 26, 2014 5:21 AM

Over the last few weeks I've been trying to figure out a way to make navigation's dropdown menus display on click instead of hover. I added this code to the theme's main.js file. AUI.add(...

Cleydyr de Albuquerque | Oct 25, 2014 10:40 PM

Then it happened again. I felt like a few times a felt before. That moment of symbiosis named "learn". I've got into the "flow" of Csikszentmihaly. (It requires a few minutes of practice just to...