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Anonymous access to Liferay's SVN servers now require inputting a username of "guest" with no password. We had to make this change due to some weird bugs with SVN. That means the command svn co svn://svn.liferay.com/repos/public/portal/trunk will not work, but the command svn co svn://svn.liferay.com/repos/public/portal/trunk --username guest will work. Access via...

Long time no post... I do a lot of our customer performance tuning jobs, and there are some guiding princliples that apply in every environment. A good place to start is to have a set of portal properties, xml configurations, and JVM flags that you know that you will use and apply every time. But that can only go so far, because every app is different and has different needs. ...

Liz Claiborne Inc. Region: USA Liz Claiborne Inc. designs and markets a global portfolio of retail-based premium brands including Juicy Couture, Kate Spade, Lucky Brand Jeans and Mexx. The company also has a group of department store-based brands with consumer franchises including the Liz Claiborne and Monet families of brands, Mac & Jac, Kensie and...

VisitFinland Region: Finland VisitFinland offers the latest and greatest in travel information, popular sites to visit, current events, and even weather updates for your next trip to the country.  

H + H Region: Denmark The core activity of the H+H Group is the manufacture and sale of Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC or aircrete). The H+H Group consists of H+H International A/S as the parent company and subsidiaries in the UK, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic, Russia, the Ukraine, the Baltic States,Slovakia, Finland, Sweden and...

A common problem that comes up is the need to change how documents are stored in the Document Library. For example, you may start out storing documents using Jackrabbit hooked to a database. However, as time goes on and you find yourself using more Liferay deployments, the number of database connections reserved for Jackrabbit alone gets dangerously close to the maximum number of...

Berendsen Region: Denmark One of Europe's leading textile service companies with service in 13 countries. Berendsen develops and provides value added textile, hygiene and safety solutions.  

California Casualty Region: USA California Casualty is in the sole business of providing individuals with high-quality insurance coverage and service at a competitive price. Since its founding in 1914, California Casualty has been led by four generations of Brown family members. Their unwavering dedication to California Casualty's continued excellence is...

Konventum Conference Center Region: Denmark Konventum is a convention center that focuses on diversity, beauty, quality, and professionalism for its customers. Their facilites include conference and educational facilities with IT services.  

 In ten steps, you could be able to set Alfresco (3.1 or above) web client as a set of portlets in Liferay portal (5.2 or above). It is simple for Do-It-Yourselfers. Download URL:  liferay.cignex.com/palm_tree/0387/sso/liferay/alfresco-portlet Demo URL:  liferay.cignex.com  1) Get Alfresco web client application: alfresco.war (from Alfresco Tomcat bundle) ...

Informant Technologies, Inc. Region: USA Informant Technologies, Inc. provides software and services to public safety agencies and other organizations. The company helps its customers to increase their efficiency and productivity with a variety of software products that support the full range of an agency’s records and reporting needs including records...

I'm sorry it's been so woefully long between updates here. I've been furiously working away on something that I'll have more details about in the next couple of weeks, but I think you will find that interesting. Today's post, however, is of a different bent. You may remember the wallpaper I created back in December. It seems like it was pretty popular, at least internally (they're...

The DAO layer of Liferay for services persistence had a core Hibernate (non-JPA) implementation. But lately, customers have been asking for JPA so as to be able to plugin the provider of their choice. So we created another implementation for the DAO interfaces using JPA. In the first phase, it works with TopLink and EclipseLink. For details, see JPA integration wiki page. But little...

Assuming that indexes have already been created against the fields you're querying against, the Dynamic Query API is a great way to create custom queries against Liferay objects without having to create custom finders and services. However, there are some "gotchas" that I've bumped into when using them, and I'm hoping that sharing these experiences will help someone out there if...

Charles MacPherson Associates Inc. Region: US Founded in 1996, Charles MacPherson Associates Inc. provides staffing, training and consulting solutions for the Luxury Residential and Hospitality Industries. Their business is dedicated to the development and implementation of custom designed solutions for all of their clients.  

Bliss Magazine Region: UK Bliss is a monthly British magazine that covers every part of pop-culture, including: candid celebrity gossip, latest fashions, hair and make-up looks, entertainment reviews, romance advice, psychology for friendships and real life stories.  

hits mobile Region: Spain hits mobile is a new mobile phone operator that offers the best rates for both national and international calls - allowing people to speak with friends and family at the most competitive price and with the highest service quality. hits mobile is part of the Hits Telecom group, a major multinational telecommunications company...

Community Development Foundation Region: UK CDF is the leading source of community development expertise and delivery. As a public body and a charity, they bridge government, communities and the voluntary sector in order to help local people lead.  

Discovery Toys Region: USA Discovery Toys produces toys that surpass the strictest safety standards, including phthalate-free plastic. Specializing in educational toys, they are helping to lead children and families into a brighter future with early developmental learning and financial opportunities.  

"You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into..." The Cross-Browser Compatibility Zone. Tonight I want to cover cross-browser compatibility in Liferay, why I think you...