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Brian Chan | Nov 5, 2007 8:06 PM

4.3.4 is the latest stable and recommended production release from Liferay. Release Notes: http://support.liferay.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10014&styleName=Html&version=10250 SVN Tag:...

Minhchau Dang | Nov 3, 2007 12:47 AM

The nice thing about Liferay's drag and drop layout is that you (usually) don't have to remember any of the portlet ids. At least, until you do. If you skim through portal.properties, there's a set...

Craig Kaneko | Nov 2, 2007 10:16 PM

I figured out how to do this when I was testing the message board subscriptions and the web form portlet. Configure your ROOT.xml to look like this: <Resource ...

James Min | Nov 2, 2007 10:02 AM

A common question and topic when I do training or work on support cases, is, "What is the right way to do inter portlet communication in Liferay?" Well, there is no "right way" to do this. At least...

Louis Mui | Nov 2, 2007 12:34 AM

Imagine this: (remember this is just a re-enactment, names have been changed to ensure privacy) It is Friday night and you are heading over to the friend's house, let's call him... Ryan Cheung, to...

Richard Sezov | Oct 31, 2007 10:02 PM

While it's nice to blog about some of the tools I use (see the below posts on VirtualBox and the Lomboz plugin for Eclipse for more info), I figured I should probably mention some of the stuff I'm...

Jorge Ferrer | Oct 30, 2007 11:39 AM

My previous post had much more success that I had ever imagined, which is good because it means that there is a lot of interest in the community to have a better wiki portlet. Also one of my...

Alexander Chow | Oct 30, 2007 8:45 AM

Most engineers in Liferay, Inc. happen to be Windows users. Me, I've got one of the few MacBook Pro's in the company. Ever since I joined the company in May 2005, I have used Macs to do my...

Richard Sezov | Oct 30, 2007 12:09 AM

My operating system of choice happens to be Mandriva Linux. Currently, I am running the Mandriva Linux 2008 Power Pack release. I have been running Mandriva since the dawn of time in Linux...

Michael Young | Oct 29, 2007 8:38 PM

I've been thinking a bit about the different technologies available to those thinking about integrating external applications into portal environments. One of the most requested questions we get in...

Dave Truong | Oct 29, 2007 7:00 PM

Our blogs has finally gotten a second look and I'm glad. Blogs should be improved tredmendously and already I see people commenting on people's blogs. Hopefully the response to blogs will be as...

Jorge Ferrer | Oct 29, 2007 1:20 PM

It's no big secret that Liferay's bundled wiki is one of the most often criticized. And I can understand it. For example, when you first add the portlet you get a view that looks nothing like a...

James Min | Oct 29, 2007 11:25 AM

I have a dual-boot setup on my machine Ubuntu Linux / Windows XP and I often access my Linux Ext3 partitions from Windows using this tool: fs-driver.org/ It's the most simple thing you can...

Nate Cavanaugh | Oct 29, 2007 1:02 AM

This post is a bit tardy only because the past couple of days have been pretty backed up, but the last day of the conference was one of the better ones. I'll go through the sessions that I was able...

Richard Sezov | Oct 28, 2007 2:54 AM

I've used the Lomboz plugin now to create several portlet projects for Liferay, and it's worked out very well. For those who don't know what the Lomboz plugin is, it's got a rich history. It used...

James Min | Oct 27, 2007 4:05 PM

I wrote a new wiki because I saw some gripes in the forums. wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Getting_Started_with_Liferay I think though, that more people want a guide on how to just start setting up...

Edward Shin | Oct 26, 2007 6:19 PM

I needed to upload some docs to our Document Library today, so I decided to give WebDAV a try instead of uploading each document one by one. I heard that our WebDAV implementation was buggy, so I...

Nate Cavanaugh | Oct 26, 2007 6:08 AM

So, day 2 of the ol' AJAX Experience. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend many sessions today, due to having to reschedule doctors appointments, navigate the trickeries of booking hotels (which...

Michael Young | Oct 26, 2007 4:52 AM

One of the things I love about my job is the opportunity to travel to different countries and experience everything about the culture. On this particular trip I've had the pleasure of visiting...

Jorge Ferrer | Oct 25, 2007 7:26 PM

We finally have a corporate blog! We had been talking about doing this for a long time and finally we've had the time to make the the necessary improvements to Liferay to make this possible. As...

Nate Cavanaugh | Oct 25, 2007 1:30 PM

So, here I am at The AJAX Experience conference in Boston, MA. This is an industry event for Javascript and AJAX developers, as well as a chance for different vendors to promote their AJAX wares....

Brian Chan | Oct 25, 2007 5:59 AM

I read this blog from Prashant. a few days ago about integration with Liferay and OpenSSO. http://blogs.sun.com/pdblog/entry/opensso_and_liferay_integration We just integrated the code snippets...

Jeffrey Young | Oct 25, 2007 12:51 AM

Every year around Thanksgiving a radio station in the local Los Angeles, CA area start playing Christmas music. This is one of the things I look forward to during each year, along with Football and...

Richard Sezov | Oct 24, 2007 9:41 PM

Well, that's better. I've now replaced the picture. It seemed appropriate: I took a vacation day during my last week with my old employer in order to take my daughter to the Adventure Aquarium here...

Richard Sezov | Oct 24, 2007 9:27 PM

Wow, horror of horrors, I got my blog page up! I'm a fairly new Liferay employee, and it looks like the first thing I need to do is replace my image. Currently, it's the mug shot my old employer...

Dave Truong | Oct 24, 2007 3:28 PM

"I took a look at jboss portal and concluded that nothing is wrong with liferay, haha" - bui smart guy haha

Nate Cavanaugh | Oct 24, 2007 12:34 PM

One of the most annoying things of late has been the slow "glacial" pace of the W3C, which is the standards body for HTML/CSS. It's been bandied about by most professional web devs in the...

James Min | Oct 24, 2007 9:47 AM

You don't have to be a DBA to get Oracle 10G set up for Liferay. If you just want to get something simple up and running quickly for your Ubuntu machine, just follow this guide: [ This guide...

Caris Chan | Oct 24, 2007 5:55 AM

Hello blogging world. I've made contact.

Brian Chan | Oct 24, 2007 5:24 AM

It's weird. I just had another one of those nights. I couldn't help myself. I just had to stay up late and keep coding. An idea here. A message post there. Ba DING. Ok. Gotta go code it. I just...

Dave Truong | Oct 23, 2007 9:51 PM

more scaffolding ant tasks that will fill in all those annoying xmls for us and create a basic portlet action better urls... i know why we have the ones we have and why we need them but we need to...

Brett Swaim | Oct 22, 2007 12:29 AM

I got through gate security just fine. Next time I know that flying without ID is called flying "selectee". I can simply go to the agent and the ticket counter and tell them I am flying selectee...

James Min | Oct 21, 2007 8:02 AM

When it comes to being wired, the US is in the stone ages. No joke. I've been reading this series of articles on CNN the past few weeks: Eye on South Korea. It's a series that highlights the...

Ivan Cheung | Oct 19, 2007 3:53 PM

What is Liferay? Liferay is the reason I'm here in Dalian. What is Dalian? It's the city that has welcomed us to the Middle Kingdom, but it's also a place with interesting geography. This second...

Brett Swaim | Oct 18, 2007 5:29 PM

Today is the day I will try to fly home with no ID. I will be handing my ID to my co-worker and he will walk through security with it. I will keep you updated as time goes on with the status of my...

James Min | Oct 17, 2007 4:55 PM

"What? Liferay Portal source build in about 2 1/2 minutes, you say? How?" Well, first of all, I'm on Ubuntu Linux which is more efficient than Windoze in file I/O and management. So the packing and...

James Min | Oct 15, 2007 10:32 AM

Traveling a lot lately, I've had to take some measures to get some American TV. So I set up a SlingBox with my TiVo HD Series 3 back home. I would have tried to set up a MythTV box with the...

Brian Chan | Oct 15, 2007 7:10 AM

Yummy...

James Min | Oct 14, 2007 12:04 PM

Guten tag aus Deutschland! I've had a very busy week, training and traveling, but I found some time today to blog. Just a few pics from the training session I gave in Hamburg, and our office in...

James Min | Oct 11, 2007 10:24 PM

I was looking for a while for something small, fast, and with some decent space. Finally found this: 160GB, 2 MB buffer, 5400 RPM, USB2.0, and it is powered via the same USB cable. NICE! 7.2 x...

James Min | Oct 10, 2007 11:33 PM

Some pics from the guys in the new China office: Training sessions:

James Min | Oct 10, 2007 10:59 AM

I'm listening to and watching a lot of podcasts lately. Here's what's on my iPod: Yeah, yeah... I still listen to Loveline... ever since my high school days late at night on KROQ. I wish they...

Nate Cavanaugh | Oct 10, 2007 1:21 AM

Pagination sweeping the nation. Well, Liferay version 4.3.3 has come out with 2 new "features" (they're more improvements), but I was really happy with how they came out. The first one is that...

Nate Cavanaugh | Oct 2, 2007 9:06 PM

One thing I've wished was a reality for Mail applications is to highlight all messages by a certain sender. I know everyone sorts and groups their emails differently, but I would think that sorting...

Ivan Cheung | Sep 27, 2007 1:57 AM

Here I am in Dalian, China, an area which I hardly know. I want to be open and excited about new experiences in a city not as documented as Beijing on the internet, but I can’t help but feeling...

Dave Truong | Sep 26, 2007 9:39 AM

A recent blog made a comparison between Lotus 123 and Microsoft Excel. I found it interesting because our CSA Brian Chan often uses this example when describing Liferay's company strategy. And...

Bryan H Cheung | Sep 25, 2007 1:48 PM

I'm currently at the Web2ForDev conference in Rome, Italy, sponsored by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and many other organizations, including the International Fund for Agriculture...

Dave Truong | Sep 24, 2007 7:15 PM

I've noticed in alot of our projects, we've been ripping alot of the "features" from Liferay and it got me thinking... Maybe we built Liferay backwards and judging by the new features we've been...

Nate Cavanaugh | Sep 19, 2007 2:54 AM

Hi there, if you're reading this, let me say hello and give you a warm thank you for stopping by. My name is Nate Cavanaugh, and I am the Director of User Interface Engineering here at Liferay....

Neil Griffin | Sep 18, 2007 6:53 PM

On 7/23/2007, Liferay and ICEsoft announced a technology partnership aimed at making the ICEfaces component suite available to JSF portlets within Liferay Portal. Work towards this goal actually...