Blogs

Nate Cavanaugh | Jan 10, 2014 8:18 PM

With the release of Liferay 6.2, there have been a few questions regarding Bootstrap as well as general theme changes, and I'd like to take a minute to go into more details about what we've added,...

Igor Beslic | Dec 27, 2013 11:45 AM

Hi all, recently our team finished the first real-world OAuth case, so I'll share with you code and knowledge you would probably need if you choose Liferay OAuth Plugin. Architecture Our case...

Beatriz Escobar | Dec 16, 2013 4:13 PM

La situación económica actual potencia la necesidad de las organizaciones de ser capaces de cambiar rápidamente, para dar respuesta inmediata a los cambios del entorno –tanto previstos como...

Máté Thurzó | Dec 3, 2013 6:05 PM

The Liferay 6.2 CE and EE is now officially out with tons of new features and new look including some long anticipated staging features as well. What are these features? User interface changes The...

Vicki Lea Tsang | Oct 11, 2013 7:15 PM

We are pleased to announce the release of Social Office 2.1 EE on Marketplace. Since our first release of SO 2.0 last year, we have been steadily working towards refining the features to provide...

Jeffrey Handa | Oct 9, 2013 1:11 PM

(We’re offering a worldwide Liferay Certification promotion October-November! See below for details.) Since the launch of the Liferay Certification Program, I’ve had many people ask me what’s the...

Manuel de la Peña | Oct 8, 2013 1:43 PM

Hello Continuous Readers! I'm here again to share a new CI practice in a very small pill. Do you remember a time when you had some tests that continuously failed, and nobody had bandwith to work...

Neil Griffin | Sep 6, 2013 6:09 PM

On September 5, 2013 Liferay released the 4th General Availability (GA) release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.3-ga4 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.1.x -- including 6.1.2 CE and 6.1.30 EE) Liferay Faces...

Jeffrey Handa | Sep 4, 2013 10:54 PM

If you’ve been around the Liferay community for any length of time you’ve probably heard some discussion about Liferay offering a certification. It’s something that we’ve wanted to do for quite a...

Manuel de la Peña | Aug 27, 2013 6:39 AM

Hello my friends! Here I'm again after a long time without writting about CI in Liferay. If you remember my last post, it described the importance of reverting those commits that break the build as...

Iliyan Peychev | Aug 15, 2013 1:20 PM

AlloyUI is the engine which drives the UI of all Liferay products. Since it was created in 2009, it has grown really fast and we are very close to the point where we will release ver. 2.0. We will...

Bruno Farache | Aug 5, 2013 12:22 PM

We just released a new update for Sync Android and iOS! The most important improvements are: Browse files while you are offline Move folders and files Performance boost While you are online,...

Manuel de la Peña | Aug 1, 2013 10:24 AM

In this blog post I want to talk about developers mentality, about how they (we) create software that never fails, and brights more than the sun, and is faster than a jet plane... or not? No,...

Máté Thurzó | Jul 25, 2013 11:01 AM

Staging is one of the unique fetaures of the Liferay portal, serving customers to be able to handle their content across the portal. The feature has been around for a while, and was always a...

Sergio González | Jul 17, 2013 12:33 PM

Lately I have been working on a new feature that many users have asked for a long time and Liferay didn't support it (yet). As most of you know, friendly URLs are very important nowadays for...

Manuel de la Peña | Jul 9, 2013 3:24 PM

I love that picture! Imagine yourself any Friday, at the end of your day-work. You look at the CI server and, unluckily, it is broken. You have only three options: Resign yourself that you will be...

Ryan Schuhler | Jul 5, 2013 2:30 PM

Hello, My name is Ryan and I work at Liferay. I am currently on the web team at Liferay and have the unique opportunity to both use Liferay's software as customer and collaborate with all the...

Ruud Kluivers | Jul 2, 2013 7:57 AM

This is an adaptation of a blog I wrote for Wolters Kluwer March 2011. Everyone knows that data and information are subtly different things. Data is worthless unless it can be turned into...

Ruud Kluivers | Jul 1, 2013 9:45 AM

Twenty years ago, June 1993, Adobe introduced its Acrobat software for creating and viewing electronic documents. I was one of the ‘lucky’ IT journalists to be invited by Adobe’s PR agency to...

Milen Dyankov | Jun 27, 2013 2:32 PM

As you probably know in version 6.1 Liferay introduced the mobile device rules feature. However if you haven't followed the discussions and presentations about it, you may be under the wrong...

Mika Koivisto | Jun 18, 2013 10:25 PM

We've finally released both CE and EE versions of Liferay 6.1 GA3 and along with those releases we've also released the corresponding versions of Liferay Maven Support and Portal artifacts. The...

Olaf Kock | Jun 17, 2013 8:24 AM

I took some time to speak to Jorge Ferrer, Liferay's VP of Engineering about all things Engineering and Development in Liferay. This time I'm not starting with butchering names, but positions....

Manuel de la Peña | Jun 14, 2013 10:25 AM

Hi all! This is my third blog post about Continuous Integration best practices, and today I want to explain the benefits of being patient after sending commits for being reviewed. As developers, we...

Neil Griffin | Jun 3, 2013 6:53 PM

On June 1, 2013 Liferay released the 3rd General Availability (GA) release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.2-ga3 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.1.x) Liferay Faces 3.0.2-ga3 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.0.x)...

Manuel de la Peña | May 31, 2013 12:08 PM

Following with these blog posts series about good practices in Continuous Integration, I want to talk about the benefits of running tests. Practice 2: Always run the tests When a developer commits...

Manuel de la Peña | May 29, 2013 10:13 AM

Hi all! I'm writing this blog entry as the first post of a continuous integration blog serie, sharing our knowledge and usage of this technique. In these blog posts, I will to talk about some good...

Olaf Kock | May 21, 2013 11:16 AM

At this year's Jax I met Ville Ingmann, "Your Business Buddy" at Vaadin (the business card says "VP of German Operations"). With some inadvertent background noise (sorry) we talk about the history...

Ronald Sarayudej | May 19, 2013 12:34 AM

I would like to bring attention to a hot topic around the Liferay offices lately, and one that you should definitely consider for the websites that you are working on: behavioral analytics. I'd...

Richard Sezov | May 13, 2013 8:42 PM

I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of the print edition of Using Liferay Portal 6.1! For those of you on your toes (and you know who you are), it's actually been available since...

Bruno Farache | May 8, 2013 10:46 PM

We are pleased to announce that Sync Mobile 2.0 has been released! In addition to having incorporated several bug fixes, this version represents the integration of noteable, new features: ...

Joshua Asbury | May 1, 2013 7:53 PM

When I lead the eBusiness technology efforts at my former employer, Oracle and IBM assigned "Account Managers" to our business unit. I would hear from these people (there were multiple over the...

Joshua Asbury | May 1, 2013 4:13 PM

Over the past several years, our North American Sales and Customer Experience Management team has grown at a tremendous rate. We have team members in New York, Illinois, California, Minnesota,...

James Min | Apr 30, 2013 6:33 PM

Enterprise Portal Liferay Partners with TIBCO Software for Lower Cost Back-End Integration

Juan Hidalgo Reina | Apr 26, 2013 10:52 AM

En Liferay nos encontramos inmersos en la redefinición de algunos conceptos UX, y ello nos ha permitido comprobar de primera mano, la controversia que aún se mantiene latente, entre los lenguajes...

Juan Hidalgo Reina | Apr 26, 2013 10:48 AM

In Liferay we are engaged in redefining some UX concepts, and this has allowed us to experience at first hand, the controversy that is still latent, between the fundamental languages (image and...

Igor Beslic | Apr 19, 2013 2:08 PM

Hi all, I'll share with you our latest progress made with supporting OAuth authorized requests. I'll make example with android application since I'm familiar with it (enough to display button)....

Olaf Kock | Apr 18, 2013 4:39 PM

As a preview for AlloyUI was just released (together with the new website) I took the opportunity to have another episode about the UI layer. Luckily two members of the core team, Eduardo Lundgren...

Olaf Kock | Apr 8, 2013 10:27 AM

Not long until the Day of Liferay - I'll have 30 minutes to fill, and this is what I intend to cover: A part of my job is in presales, answering all kinds of questions about what Liferay can or...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Apr 5, 2013 9:08 AM

These days I have been pushing all the OSGi stuff through the review process so we have already got some of the work in the master branch. Ray has written a really good blog post about using the...

Juan Hidalgo Reina | Apr 3, 2013 7:32 AM

In which way we approach the continuous improvement of UX in Liferay?. It is always under the perspective of a continuous evaluation.. This so “formative” methodology is the direct consequence of...

Greg Amerson | Mar 27, 2013 7:23 AM

Serveral weeks ago we updated the Remote IDE Connector application to version 1.0.1. This new update fixed the issues that we found with the 1.0.0 version of the Remote IDE Connector. Namely, it...

Jesse Rao | Mar 20, 2013 6:42 PM

We've added a new section to the Liferay Development Guide covering the Resources Importer:...

Igor Beslic | Mar 15, 2013 12:24 PM

Hi all, I want to share with you something that is pretty cool for me and I found it super useful. It is shared type of Liferay SDK plugin we use to generate jar entry that can be referred by your...

Vicki Lea Tsang | Mar 14, 2013 10:50 PM

We have been hard at work here at Liferay and are happy to announce the release of a second community edition of Social Office. Social Office 2.0.4 CE GA2 contains a variety of bug fixes (see...

Greg Amerson | Mar 14, 2013 9:52 AM

Today, the Liferay IDE team has released Liferay IDE 1.6.2. This release is minor release that only fixes a couple of issues found with Eclipse Juno SR compatibility. So if you are using Eclipse...

Juan Hidalgo Reina | Mar 13, 2013 3:02 PM

Defining UX is an abstraction exercise, a deep thought about all the agents touching upon the product’s value (apart of the typology of this product) by the users. Interactions, sensations, values,...

James Falkner | Mar 11, 2013 8:24 PM

The Liferay open source project relies on its community for many of the evolutionary and revolutionary ideas for features that eventually find their way into a release. Liferay strongly believes in...

James Falkner | Mar 8, 2013 9:49 PM

[EDIT: The A Day Of Liferay page has a detailed guest schedule. Tune into the webcast on April 9 by visiting the same!]. The best ideas often start with "Hey ya'll, watch this!!" or "Oh boy, this...

Neil Jin | Mar 5, 2013 1:25 PM

This one was designed by using minecraft screenshot! When I see this, I am always feel this grand brandy! Simple, strong, stable and enough space for imagination. Hope you will like it. The full...

Zeno Rocha | Mar 4, 2013 6:18 PM

Some weeks ago we announced the preview release of AlloyUI 2.0. One of the cool things about it is that now we have a pretty new CDN (Content Delivery Network). So instead of downloading AlloyUI to...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Feb 28, 2013 10:09 PM

It has been two years since I joined Liferay, it is incredible how fast time is going. Two amazing years I have been trying to enjoy as much as possible. First of all I would like to thank all my...

Neil Jin | Feb 28, 2013 2:23 AM

In the real world project, there are times when a team develops some feature like google map, twitter, facebook that need remote javascript library between several portlets but for the same portal....

Olaf Kock | Feb 26, 2013 8:46 PM

I'll be in Rome on 7. March 2013 and would like to keep up the infrequent habit to meet members of the community. Unfortunately so far nobody answered with their intent to come - and my favoured...

James Falkner | Feb 25, 2013 4:05 PM

Time for another community roundup! It's been far too long since the last one, and as usual a lot has been happening in and around our community. I hope everyone has had a good beginning to the...

Richard Sezov | Feb 21, 2013 12:08 AM

One of the benefits of moving our documentation out of LibreOffice and into Markdown is that Markdown converts to many publishable formats. We're already converting it into Liferay web content for...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 15, 2013 10:42 PM

Interview all liferay.com stakeholders about website redesign. Create affinity diagram to find common issues and brainstorm solutions. Create plan for improving liferay.com site flow and site...

Djalma Araujo | Feb 15, 2013 6:42 PM

Hi everyone! As you know, recently launched Alloy 2.0. To illustrate a bit and have it be something else in our day to day, I made a simple wallpaper of our alloy. Possibly make others more...

James Falkner | Feb 14, 2013 3:17 AM

In the first installment of this series, I showed several (hopefully useful) code snippets demonstrating the programmatic creation of various things in Liferay - pages, portlets, and structured web...

Olaf Kock | Feb 11, 2013 11:06 AM

Exposing well hidden features Those of you who attended my "Well Hidden Features of Liferay" presentation at the 2012 european symposium might remember the well hidden monitoring information that...

Jim Hinkey | Feb 8, 2013 7:59 PM

If you have been curious about Maven, or if you would like to use Maven to develop Liferay plugins, we have a new chapter dedicated to Maven--Developing plugins using Maven found in the Liferay...