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Ray Augé | Apr 24, 2008 1:29 PM

Updated: Wed May 28 10:53:09 EDT 2008. See the follow-up article here. In Javascript, "expando" means "to attach additional properties to an object". That's a little bit of hint as to what Expandos...

Minhchau Dang | Apr 22, 2008 2:37 AM

A feature I recently discovered was the ability to precompile all the JSPs in Liferay. The motivation behind this discovery was the need for sanity checking after making a small change to nearly a...

Ray Augé | Apr 15, 2008 8:27 PM

Social networks and portals are a natural fit. To that end we're currently doing work to integrate the brand new (still in incubation) Shindig project. Shindig is the Gadget and Opensocial...

Ray Augé | Apr 14, 2008 2:24 PM

In Liferay 5.0.0+ we have added a new feature: Announcements/Alerts. Announcements/Alerts are two portlets which can be used to broadcast some message to a list of users within a known scope....

Nate Cavanaugh | Apr 10, 2008 6:11 PM

Hey there, O faithful reader... Man, what a long time since actually posting. Since I last posted, quite a lot has happened, and included in that was the fact that my wife and I visited China with...

Alvaro Del Castillo | Apr 8, 2008 12:25 PM

Next week here in Spain we will go to Seville to a Liferay Training course. It is great the last enhancements in the training materials because we are going to use and check them near real time ;)...

Alexander Chow | Apr 4, 2008 8:02 AM

In a previous post, it was suggested to me that I remove tunnel-web's dependency on JAAS. What this would do is (1) circumvent issues with JAAS implementations in certain app servers (Tomcat's...

Dave Truong | Apr 3, 2008 4:55 PM

I read an interesting article today. You should probably read it first to understand my thoughts but I’ll summarize since most of you aren’t gonna read it and it’s a bit long anyways… It’s...

Alberto Montero | Mar 28, 2008 10:18 AM

Hi all, If you have read previous posts you already know about Romulus. Liferay task are related to three areas: Portal mashups Mashups are about reusing. Why not reuse already provided portal...

Bryan H Cheung | Mar 28, 2008 4:01 AM

We've wrapped up the second day of the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration conference here in Baltimore, where open source software was highlighted as one of the five "disruptive" forces in...

Jian Cao | Mar 26, 2008 3:57 AM

A lot of Chinese like some other styles of paginators, this is one I modify the existing jsp page a little to implement it, I think somebody else must have some better ways, please give me some...

Jian Cao | Mar 21, 2008 8:42 AM

James Min | Mar 19, 2008 5:13 PM

I just made a Wiki on how to configure ECJ for your Liferay builds. It is here, but I'll just paste the most important parts: Liferay Builds with ECJ ECJ, the Eclipse Compiler for Java, is an...

Alexander Chow | Mar 14, 2008 8:37 PM

I don't know about you, but I was not too fond of the Image Gallery display (sorry Brian). So, I decided to get out of my back-end shell, and try a little Javascript and CSS madness! Now, when...

Richard Sezov | Mar 14, 2008 3:16 AM

Well, it's a little late and yes, it's a little behind, but the first edition of the Liferay Administrator's Guide has hit the presses! Covering Liferay Portal 4.3, it goes over everything from...

Alberto Montero | Mar 13, 2008 8:09 AM

Could development in Liferay be improved? The answer is allways yes. And, how could development be improved? This may have several answers, and one of them is Romulus. Romulus is an R&D project...

Alberto Montero | Mar 13, 2008 7:58 AM

Hi, I'm Alberto Montero, one of the latest incorporations to Liferay staff. Although sometime hard, it's allways exciting to start a new job, with lots of new things to learn and to do. My work...

Ivan Cheung | Mar 11, 2008 7:24 AM

Recently I set up a clustered environment using three servers, two with liferay-tomcat-4.4.2 bundle and one with apache 2.2 http server. Here are my steps: STEP 1: Download and install the...

Jorge Ferrer | Mar 7, 2008 6:40 PM

Up until now the editor area of FCKEditor did not always correctly reflect the look&feel that the contents were going to have when published. The reason was that the theme CSS was not being applied...

Jorge Ferrer | Mar 4, 2008 5:51 PM

We've been waiting for this moment for a long time. I've received this question by email, in person and through the message boards, lots of times... when will the Portlet 2.0 spec be ready?....

Jorge Ferrer | Mar 2, 2008 6:01 PM

I just came across a blog post with an example on how to create a drag & drop effect using jQuery UI. Looking at the code it surprises how easy it is. The whole JavaScript is around 17 lines of...

Ray Augé | Mar 1, 2008 1:53 AM

(Out of Date, but still mostly relevant, has many improvements though) Well finally it's in trunk... The sponsored staging enhancements (workflow) (which I've dubbed v1.2) features are now in....

Jerry Niu | Feb 28, 2008 7:28 PM

UPDATE (2/20/2009) - These instructions apply to versions 4.1.X, 4.2.X, 4.3.X, 4.4..X, 5.0.X & 5.1.X) Read my post on "How to get Liferay running in Windows XP Pro" for reference. Download SQL...

Jerry Niu | Feb 28, 2008 6:27 PM

Install Java Set JAVA_HOME Set the JAVA_HOME Environment Variable and point it to the location of the JDK Add JAVA_HOME to the Path Env Var Tomcat needs to know the location of the JDK in order...

Jorge Ferrer | Feb 24, 2008 8:14 PM

As promised, I want to finish the review of the new features of the wiki portlet. This time I'm not going to write much and will let the screenshots speak for themselves: Diff view of changes...

Alexander Chow | Feb 22, 2008 12:40 AM

For the last month or so, my focus has been to slowly improve Liferay's WebDAV capabilities. WebDAV is an incredibly powerful way of accessing data on the portal, but there is always room for...

Brian Chan | Feb 18, 2008 7:33 AM

I just got back from a week in Rome, part work, part vacation.. (like I ever go on vacation). Here are some highlights of the week. That's me with an original bust of Nero. He was the crazy emperor...

Jorge Ferrer | Feb 17, 2008 12:22 PM

Ok, maybe the title is a bit pretentious but I have to say that I'm really excited with the results. I'm surprised myself with how much we've been able to do in so little time. IMHO after these...

Richard Sezov | Feb 15, 2008 4:11 AM

Despite years of resistance, I am now a Kubuntu user. It's taken a lot to get me here, but if you're interested, hang on to your hat. I've been using Linux for many years as my primary operating...

Jonathan Neal | Feb 14, 2008 1:17 AM

Oh to be young again... Hold on, I am young - young, healthy, well, mostly healthy, and ready to take on the world! So, what better way to take on the computer world than take on the king of the...

Jorge Ferrer | Feb 13, 2008 5:09 PM

Yesterday I received my first book bought at Lulu.com and I have to say that the whole process has been great. The price has been lower than the usual technical books I buy and I've had to wait...

Ray Augé | Feb 12, 2008 10:59 PM

Liferay offers a wide variety of different remote API's. A very useful one is JSON. It's useful because most languages have JSON processing functions. So the only dependencies are those and HTTP...

Jonathan Neal | Feb 12, 2008 6:11 PM

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Edward Shin | Feb 12, 2008 12:28 AM

1-action-forward - Contains the basic files needed to display a JSP. Describes key aspects of the core files. 2-tiles - Covers tiles, adding the portlet to a category and internationalization....

Nate Cavanaugh | Feb 12, 2008 12:18 AM

People seemed to like the "hey buddy, want to hear a secret?" nature of my last post, and in that tradition, I will try to drop some tips about some of the lesser known ways of playing around with...

Ray Augé | Feb 11, 2008 7:35 PM

Sometimes you want some ability to tweak your Liferay theme at runtime... Note: Don't do this when you are packaging a theme for public consumption. It's very easy to add some "on-line"...

Ray Augé | Feb 11, 2008 7:18 PM

Many people ask how to build portlets which display Flash (SWF) content in the portal with options for changing and controlling that content. Well, you don't have to build a portlet to handle this....

Jeffrey Young | Feb 11, 2008 6:37 PM

Chinese New Year started last Thursday but is still in full effect. I wanted to make sure I got to wish everyone who celebrates this holiday a wonderful rest of the holiday. Enjoy family, eat...

Ray Augé | Feb 11, 2008 5:02 PM

I know the title should probably read "What's new in 4.4.0", or even "4.4.1" (which was just released). But, we've made so many fixes after those two releases that it's worth it to skip right ahead...

JR Houn | Feb 8, 2008 11:34 PM

I'm not sure if everyone out there surfing the interwebs has noticed, but we've been quietly releasing a lot of really, really cool themes recently. As a relatively non-technical person, the...

JR Houn | Feb 8, 2008 1:29 AM

Pass. Fail. Pass. Fail. Fail. Pass. These words have just about defined the testing I've been doing over the past couple weeks. If perhaps by some galactic anomaly you haven't noticed, Liferay has...

Brian Chan | Feb 7, 2008 1:07 AM

Our recent announcement about jQuery caused a lot of confusion among the JSF camp because it seemed to contradict another announcement we made a few months ago concerning ICEfaces. So this blog is...

Jonathan Neal | Feb 6, 2008 11:53 PM

What is Milli Vanilli theme making? According to Jonathan Neal's Alliterated Dictionary of Natural Selection it is "The act or process of designing admirable and successful graphical interfaces for...

Nate Cavanaugh | Feb 4, 2008 9:11 PM

Have you ever wanted to plugin to Liferay's javascript functions, but didn't want to modify the original Javascript, and didn't want to branch off of it? I know I have. For instance, let's say that...

Brian Chan | Feb 1, 2008 6:30 PM

In 4.3.x, our out of the box Glassfish bundle was over 220 megs and only worked on Windows. In 4.4.x, with the help of Raju from Sun, we were able to create bundles for Glassfish around 135 megs in...

Bruno Farache | Feb 1, 2008 4:17 AM

I always thought that it would be very nice if we could compare text files in the document library portlet, just like we developers do with different versions of source code. I finally implemented...

Nate Cavanaugh | Jan 26, 2008 2:39 AM

A few months ago, Peter "The Man" Shin started working on a new theme for Liferay, called, appropriately enough, Desktop. Yes, I know we already had a theme called Desktop, but to be honest, it...

JR Houn | Jan 26, 2008 12:17 AM

I don't think I have ever run into anyone who had a love for tests. And if I by some way I am suffering a form of amnesia and HAVE met someone who loved tests I would have derided and mocked that...

Brian Chan | Jan 25, 2008 8:30 PM

Enhancements include: An improved User and Organization System Users can now be members of more than one Organization Locations are now an Organization Type Roles can now be scoped by Organization...

Jerry Niu | Jan 25, 2008 12:55 AM

This is an OLD one. September 2006 Public Training was held in Los Angeles, CA

Jerry Niu | Jan 25, 2008 12:19 AM

January 2008 Public Training was held in Los Angeles, CA.

Jonathan Neal | Jan 24, 2008 11:45 PM

My Liferay. Part 1. Handball Haiku. the liferay weather, it's showering handball games, small ball, big ball, fun. My Liferay. Part 2. A Plural People. Here at Liferay I'm thunderstruck by the...

Richard Sezov | Jan 23, 2008 9:15 PM

First of all, a belated Happy New Year! This is my first blog post in the new year (and in the new theme), and I'm excited about what I have to report. Last night I finally finished the first draft...

Jorge Ferrer | Jan 19, 2008 2:28 PM

Happy new year everybody!! It's been a while since my last post and this will be a very short one. All I wanted to do is let everyone interested know that I'm working on improving the wiki again....

Michael Saechang | Jan 18, 2008 12:43 AM

While I was surfing the Wiki I found a distress signal coming from a discussion within an empty article. It was a Liferay user calling out for help. Bchan gave me a crash course in PHP portlets and...

Nate Cavanaugh | Jan 15, 2008 8:44 PM

I don't know how Bryan Cheung does it. I believe he flew over 100,000 miles last year, and I'm really quite surprised he's still sane. Why do I say that? Because if any of his trips are anything...

Alexander Chow | Jan 15, 2008 9:34 AM

After several months in the working, we finally got Liferay's Document Library compliant to WebDAV Class 1, per RFC2518!! It is still not Class 2 compliant, meaning locking does not work (and that...

James Min | Jan 7, 2008 7:19 PM

I haven't had 3 solid weeks off in a while, and let me tell you. I enjoyed every minute of it. But I'm back to work today and actually, it feels good too. I love working at Liferay and it really...

Jonathan Neal | Jan 3, 2008 7:43 PM

From the makers of the world's leading enterprise open source portal framework, Liferay is proud to introduce MySpace by Liferay, a Google Gadget, part of Liferay's growing implementation and...

Nate Cavanaugh | Dec 31, 2007 2:58 AM

It's been exactly 10 years since I got my very first computer, which was on Christmas of '97, and was a $400 dollar IBM clone, running Windows 95. I didn't even know how to change my wallpaper, or...