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James Falkner | Apr 2, 2015 4:41 PM

It's been about 1 month since we launched the Liferay 7 Community Expedition! I first want to thank all of you that have spent your valuable time and brain cycles to help with Liferay 7...

James Falkner | Apr 1, 2015 4:25 PM

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.3a! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start] [Detailed...

Annika Sinnecker | Mar 25, 2015 4:56 PM

The following information is only relevant for German speaking members: Wer mehr darüber erfahren möchte, welche rechtlichen Aspekte bei Nutzung der Community und der Liferay Enterprise Edition zu...

Martin Yan | Mar 25, 2015 1:12 AM

More than ever before, people are foregoing their desktops and accessing services primarily through their phones and tablets. A strong mobile strategy is now a must-have for businesses. But what...

Juan Fernández | Mar 18, 2015 9:06 AM

Dear community: I'd like to make an important announcement today. I've been presenting and demoing Liferay Cloud Services at Symposiums, events and customer visits for quite some time now, and...

Olaf Kock | Mar 17, 2015 9:01 AM

One message that I have to give out in trainings doesn't fail to stun the students: When you deploy multiple hooks that override the same JSP in Liferay, you will first get undefined behavior and...

Dave Truong | Mar 15, 2015 12:17 AM

Happy Pi Day everyone! You guys should take a look at this site which makes some cool art from the number π. Also reminds me also that I have two raspberry pi's that need some attention. Anyone...

Olaf Kock | Mar 13, 2015 8:17 AM

Liferay comes with so many features that it's hard to judge when a feature is a good solution for a given problem. I'd like to shine some light onto some of these features and common misconceptions...

Fady Hakim | Mar 11, 2015 3:08 PM

For anyone wasn't able to attend our webinar about audience targeting, you can check the recorded video here The Audience Targeting app raises the engagement experience of your portal to a whole...

Javier Gamarra | Mar 10, 2015 3:30 PM

Update: Hey, we released version 1.0, check it out here! Hi, community! I'm Javier Gamarra, a new senior Android developer working at Madrid's office! I am glad to announce that the Beta 3 of...

Vicki Lea Tsang | Mar 6, 2015 10:40 PM

Thanks to our community members, who identifed issues with installing Social Office 3.0 CE on the latest release of Liferay Portal CE, we have released an updated version of Social Office CE, which...

Ruud Kluivers | Mar 5, 2015 9:04 AM

Als een softwareleverancier gratis aanvullende producten gaat leveren, dan moeten er bij de klant alarmbellen gaan rinkelen. Ergens wordt er dan iets te veel betaald. Ik merk met de regelmaat van...

Shannon Chang | Mar 3, 2015 6:08 PM

The single most frustrating part of meeting planning for me lately has been budgeting for bandwidth. Internet access has become a requirement for meetings, and it’s virtually impossible to plan a...

Ruud Kluivers | Mar 3, 2015 5:04 PM

Een bedrijfswebsite mag niet enkel een digitaal uithangbord zijn. Het is bij uitstek een platform om te verbinden met partners, klanten en uiteraard potentiële klanten. Zo’n diverse doelgroep...

Ruud Kluivers | Mar 3, 2015 5:03 PM

In december was ik enkele dagen te gast in mijn favoriete Amerikaanse stad, San Francisco. Als toerist reis je daar bij voorkeur met de karakteristieke ‘cable cars’, die zich op wonderlijke wijze...

Ruud Kluivers | Mar 3, 2015 5:01 PM

Vroeger was een bedrijfswebsite vooral een online visitekaartje, maar inmiddels is het een essentieel bedrijfsmiddel. Een website gebruik je voor klantcontact, dienstverlening op maat en conversie....

Ruud Kluivers | Mar 3, 2015 5:00 PM

De samenleving is steeds afhankelijker van IT. Al onze persoonlijke gegevens en middelen liggen immers verankerd in systemen van de overheid, pensioeninstellingen, banken en hypotheekverstrekkers....

Ruud Kluivers | Mar 3, 2015 4:58 PM

Gelukkig is het niet alleen kommer en kwel in de zorg. Recent bleek dat innovatie wel degelijk mogelijk is als je maar visie en durf toont. JIP (Jouw Internet Portaal) is een unieke website die het...

Ruud Kluivers | Mar 3, 2015 4:57 PM

Apps zijn veel meer dan enkel applicaties op de smartphone of tablet. In feite zijn het de bouwstenen van een community-gedreven platform. Apps zijn immers onderdeel van het softwareplatform en de...

Ruud Kluivers | Mar 3, 2015 4:55 PM

Onlangs bleek uit de E-Government Survey 2014 dat Nederland op de vijfde plaats staat bij de ontwikkeling van de e-overheid en elektronische dienstverlening. Deze positie in het VN-rapport klinkt...

Ruud Kluivers | Mar 3, 2015 4:53 PM

Iedere organisatie moet zowel online als offline de relaties met zijn klanten (klantcontact) en stakeholders onderhouden. Eigenlijk zou het niet van belang mogen zijn of die contactmomenten nu via...

James Falkner | Mar 2, 2015 7:56 PM

My Documents View New Liferay Sync UI Liferay has released a beta of the new version of Liferay Sync, the popular document sharing add-on for Liferay. Download it from the Downloads page, read the...

Brett S. Kobold | Feb 26, 2015 6:29 PM

One of the biggest questions in web analytics right now is “How do we know users are reading or looking at our content?” In the past, Liferay has used “page views” and “number of clicks” to...

Angela Wu | Feb 26, 2015 4:36 PM

Last August, nine of us from Liferay HQ partnered with Living Water and took a trip down to Guatemala to serve the people of La Hermosa, Escuintla. Since 1990, Living Water has been implementing...

Jose M. Navarro | Feb 22, 2015 5:51 PM

Several months ago, I read an article talking about a new concept for me: the Hacker in Residence. Since then, I saw pretty clearly that it would be a wonderful initiative within Liferay, given...

Olaf Kock | Feb 18, 2015 12:24 PM

This is a repeat post - same topic as in July 2013, when I've solved exactly the same problem on Liferay 6.1. Now it's time to update the solution to Liferay 6.2. But I am ahead of myself: What...

Olaf Kock | Feb 18, 2015 10:50 AM

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and...

Ray Augé | Feb 12, 2015 10:46 PM

Over the past couple of years Liferay has invested a considerable amount of effort to re-engineer Liferay Portal version 7.0 with modularity as the key focus. As part of this effort we've adopted...

Cleydyr de Albuquerque | Feb 10, 2015 6:43 PM

Last January 31, the Alcides do Nascimento Community Library was born with the help of EVP and helpful people with strong beliefs in doing good. History In 2011 at the metro train, I met a former...

Travis Cory | Feb 5, 2015 10:39 PM

TL;DR Understanding the purpose and goals of your client will help you develop meaningful and efficient code. Focus on one task at at time. Approximate reading time: 3 minutes As a consultant here...

Abhishek Jain | Feb 5, 2015 6:40 PM

Hello Liferay community! We're pleased to announce a new training offering called Production Readiness on our course calendar, and this is the perfect opportunity to shed some light on what it...

Shannon Chang | Feb 4, 2015 7:39 PM

It's hard enough to get certain developer types to mingle for even a little while without constantly checking their phones for the best time to make their exit. It can be challenging to plan a...

Neil Griffin | Feb 3, 2015 10:47 PM

The Liferay Faces team is focussed on developing our new 4.2.5-GA6 and 3.2.5-GA6 releases as well as our new Liferay Faces Showcase demo. But since not all projects will not have an opportunity to...

David Zhang | Feb 2, 2015 8:10 AM

Integerate P6spy with Liferay to format Hibernate SQL When working on the customer's tickets, we may analysis the hibernate SQL to get some useful information, but it is really difficult to do...

Bruno Farache | Jan 30, 2015 9:42 PM

Hello, community! We would like to announce Liferay Push, our new framework for sending push notifications from Liferay Portal to your mobile apps. Push notifications is a technology that allows...

Olaf Kock | Jan 20, 2015 9:03 AM

A short Inbetweenisode on the release of 6.2 CE GA3 with repeat guest and Community Manager James Falkner. During Devcon James promised the release for the 15. January - while I stated that this...

Esther Sanz | Jan 19, 2015 11:22 AM

LA Unconference December 2014 December is always a very exciting time of the year when engineers gather in our LA office to discuss, work and have fun together. It is a time for reflection and to...

Martin Yan | Jan 13, 2015 11:58 PM

Congratulations, you made it to the new year. You're still here, and with a bit of luck, so is your company. Or maybe not. But it's the new year, so at least you have some fresh resolve and a...

Zeno Rocha | Jan 13, 2015 5:14 PM

Originally published on Medium One of the cool things about working at Liferay is that you have the freedom to propose any crazy idea that comes to your head and there’s a high chance that they...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...