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Bryan H Cheung | Jul 8, 2008 3:59 PM

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Brian Chan | Jul 4, 2008 5:09 PM

We're finally making our continuous integration server public. It took several months of fine tuning to get to this point. The main issues were with making sure that CruiseControl , Hudson,...

Jorge Ferrer | Jul 3, 2008 9:24 AM

Inter Portlet Communication (IPC) is a hot topic nowadays. This was probably the most missed feature of the first version of the portlet spec (JSR-168), but has made it to the second version...

Michael C. Han | Jun 30, 2008 9:25 PM

Well, I'm back in our offices in Asia to help our sales folks and to sign some partnerships with local system integrators. This has been a rather interesting trip, especially learning some of the...

Jorge Ferrer | Jun 21, 2008 6:00 PM

A progress bar is one of the most useful widgets for a user interface when the user can perform lengthy tasks. Unfortunately, while it's a widget very often found in desktop applications it's not...

Sang Baek | Jun 19, 2008 6:24 AM

Singapore. Liferay and Intalio, our BPMS partner company, will jointly host a cocktail on July 8th, 630pm at the Hilton on Orchard. Intalio will demonstrate the Intalio Business Process Platform...

JR Houn | Jun 18, 2008 10:14 PM

Hi everyone! It's been some time since I've last put out a blog entry; So I thought it would be an appropriate time to give everyone a little bit of an update into whats going on with Liferay and...

Richard Sezov | Jun 18, 2008 7:18 PM

Liferay is a big application, made up of thousands of files. That's not the kind of typical, everyday application that your system is used to dealing with. Everywhere I've worked (including...

Wan Gavin | Jun 18, 2008 8:34 AM

Firefox 3 中有个插件 User Agent Swither 可以切换到其他浏览器，结合firebug调试css、js。 在各浏览器水火不容的今天这个功能显得非常有用～

Jorge Ferrer | Jun 16, 2008 8:32 AM

Several weeks ago we announced the compatibility of Liferay 5 with the final draft of the spec. and now it's been declared officially final. Thanks go to Stefan, the spec lead, for all his hard...

Craig Kaneko | Jun 13, 2008 10:49 PM

If you’re just getting involved with Liferay, you may have come across an interesting portlet called the asset publisher. There are so many different ways to configure this portlet so that it...

Richard Sezov | Jun 13, 2008 6:56 PM

Here's a good story for a Friday: I'm running around today opening windows because it's hot, but not so hot as to turn on the air conditioner. I'm a little frustrated trying to get something to...

Joseph Shum | Jun 13, 2008 1:26 AM

For my latest task I’ve been looking into re-implementing the persistence layer of Liferay permissions to authenticate users and obtain authorization data from a client identity and access...

Ivan Cheung | Jun 12, 2008 9:11 AM

I've been playing around with Liferay portal version 5.0.1 and have found some new features that make it easy to create a community driven website. When I hear good news, I just wanna share it, so...

Arcko Duan | Jun 6, 2008 7:11 AM

James Min | Jun 5, 2008 5:35 PM

Want to tune Liferay for better performance? There are several things that you can do. There is no magic wand that turbo charges your web app. There is this wiki article which has some properties...

Peter Shin | Jun 2, 2008 10:31 AM

Updated: 11/28/08 Screenshots for the latest Desktop theme updated for Liferay 5.2.x. You can download the theme here (change .zip to .war) It'd be nice to have a theme that's different...

Arcko Duan | Jun 2, 2008 7:01 AM

The premier Site-Specific Browser that brings Liferay to your Desktop, just kidding... http://bubbleshq.com/scripts/169/liferay Another thing is how to make a notifier icon here for chat portlet,...

Richard Sezov | May 28, 2008 8:01 PM

Just wanted to let you know that the Quickstart Guide (upon which the below video is based) is now available! You can grab it at the Community landing page:...

Alvaro Del Castillo | May 26, 2008 12:52 PM

In the process of migrating the Document Publisher portlet from LRP 4.4.2 to 5.0.1 one of the problems I have found is that in LRP 5.0.1 the URLs for actions and renders in some cases, like URLs...

Alvaro Del Castillo | May 24, 2008 12:01 PM

I am working right now in creating a new portlet por publishing documents (DocBook, XML Framemaker, Javadoc) so you can view them inside a Liferay portlet add comments the document section, access...

Nate Cavanaugh | May 23, 2008 9:48 PM

I just wanted to drop a couple of notes about the auto-save that I didn't mention before.... 1. I didn't do the bulk of the work That honor goes to Jonathan Neal. Bchan did a lot and I made a...

Jorge Ferrer | May 23, 2008 5:46 PM

Until now when the user was in any place of the portal clicked the "Sign in" link he was shown a default portal login page. Of course it was already possible to create your own customized login...

Alberto Montero | May 22, 2008 9:19 AM

Hi everyone. Yes, now you can develop portlets using groovy, and thanks to the last changes made by Brian is quite simple. Let's take a look at sample-groovy-portlet (check it out from the plugins...

Thiago Leão Moreira | May 21, 2008 3:03 AM

Before and after the Novell had turned your Collaborative portlets open source I worked with it to integrate with Liferay. The Collaborative portlets are another frontend to access the Groupwise...

Nate Cavanaugh | May 20, 2008 11:14 PM

This is a feature I know many of us have been desperately wanting for quite a while. In fact, it's something that many of us miss from other blogging apps, and we now have it. So, to kind of show...

Ray Augé | May 16, 2008 5:20 PM

Portals are all about personalization, and Liferay is no different. I mean, there are many, many other things involved in portals other than personalization. But none of them really make sense...

Bryan H Cheung | May 16, 2008 12:43 AM

I picked up a copy of the International Herald Tribune while boarding my flight for Rome where I'm helping a client launch their new social computing platform this month. I had heard about the...

Ray Augé | May 14, 2008 5:47 PM

Many people ask how to achieve file downloads from a portlet project. I'm going to try putting this mystery to rest by first explaining the limitations and then showing some old and new ways of...

Bryan H Cheung | May 13, 2008 8:03 AM

Liferay enjoyed a great JavaOne this year, our third corporate appearance at the ground zero of the Java development world. The emphasis this year was on openness, community, and the individual,...

Ray Augé | May 12, 2008 7:45 PM

If you are or you have tried installing a Liferay on a cluster of Ubuntu machines and are/were having problems with the ehCache, do this check: ]$ ping `hostname` If it responds using an address on...

Brian Chan | May 8, 2008 5:00 AM

Here we are relaxing at Chevy's after a long long day at JavaOne. The guys wearing blue jerseys are from Liferay and the rest are from the Sun team. It was a great time of enjoying good food,...

Brian Chan | May 7, 2008 4:53 PM

If you've been following what we're been doing here at Liferay, you'll notice a lot of collaboration with Sun this past year. So now it's time that we make this public. But before I get to that, I...

Wan Gavin | May 7, 2008 1:52 PM

似乎总能听到liferay性能的抱怨， 在一个开源软件中这其实不难理解，就想一台公用的电脑，有人用oracle就在上面装个oracle，有人用DB2就又装了一个DB2…… 这些服务都启动自然就会慢。我们要做的就是停掉一些用不到的功能和方便开发人员debug的一些选项。 启动速度相关参数： 在不需要自动创建数据库结构的时候可以停掉此项： # # Set this to true to...

Alberto Montero | May 6, 2008 3:06 PM

Currently, the WebForm portlet it quite simple. But it was designed to be as simple as possible. Now we have chances to improve it a bit. After the development of the expandos (thanks Ray) the task...

Brian Chan | May 6, 2008 3:54 AM

Wouldn't it be nice to deploy a portlet to Liferay and have it work as an application in Facebook? Check out our message boards at http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/forums Go to the bottom...

Jorge Ferrer | May 5, 2008 12:17 AM

This is a new feature I've been wanting to blog about for a while. It was inspired by a request from a customer who wanted to be able to store the different configurations of web forms and be able...

Brian Kim | May 1, 2008 11:08 PM

After seeing all the blog activity on Liferay.com as of late, I was looking for something to really reach out and inspire me to write an entry as well. Well, today a fellow froworker (friend and...

Samuel Kong | May 1, 2008 5:12 PM

I was introduced to WebDAV the other day, and I thought it would be great to use my first blog post to tell other people about it also. What is WebDAV? Think of it as a way to upload, download, and...

Richard Sezov | May 1, 2008 3:25 PM

A few weeks ago our CEO proposed a challenge to me: create a document that shows how to create an Intranet in Liferay in 10 minutes. Here's a demonstration video: Oh, and the document will be...