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While at OSCON last month, I couldn't help but notice a lot of chatter between the booths about mobile devices, mobile browsing, and much adeu about how mobile was everywhere I would ever want to be, ever. So, this week I gave in, sipped on a little post-OSCON Kool-aid, and decided to find out what Liferay could do when it came to unlocking the power of my iPhone. As smartphones...

University of Salento Region: Italy The University of Salento aims to serve society by educating the leaders of tomorrow and extending the frontiers of knowledge. The fundamental strength of their university is based on freedom of thought and opinion, transparency and meritocracy.  

Friluftsfrämjandet Region: Sweden Offering a plethora of outdoor activities, like snowboarding, nordic walking, and canoeing - Friluftsfrämjandet is a voluntary, non political, non profit, non religious and independent organisation, founded in 1892, still with the same goal, "That through an outdoor lifestyle, positively affect public health and quality...

Simrit Region: Norway Simrit is a major producer of industrial seals and dampers. Whether aboard ocean-going vessels, in first aid and rescue equipment, earth moving machinery or in hydroelectric dam control equipment, Simrit products can be found everywhere. Simrit products set high standards for quality, functional performance and efficiency. ...

OLVI Region: Finland Olvi plc is the third largest brewery and soft drink company in Finland. Olvi plc is the only brewing company in Finnish ownership with nationwide operations. They are most known for their beers, mineral waters and ciders. In addition to these, Olvi manufactures soft drinks and long drinks.  

UPDATE: Due to the positive response that this post has recieved in the first few minutes, Liferay.com and the Liferay portal will be adopting the new favicon I created in this tutorial. In a continuing effort (read: plead) to see your websites looking awesome, today I would like to show you how to make and update the favicon of your website. A little background; a favicon is the...

Dif Broker Region: Portugal DIF Broker is an independent and privately owned registered investment advisory firm and Broker company whose business includes professional management of portfolios. Their services offer independent investors the convenience and control of automated order placement and executions at low commission rates. ...

In the spirit of blogging about useful Liferay configurations, I thought I would share with you another URL weight-loss secret, losing the :8080 on the end of your URL in Liferay. When you're done reading, you'll know how to turn http://localhost:8080/ into http://localhost/. So, Jon, why does Liferay run on port 8080? Well, dear reader, long ago in the early days of the...

UPDATE: I've added a 1 minute demonstration of this entire tutorial at the bottom of this blog. There's a lot under the hood when it comes to Liferay, and even that is an understatement, but in my opinion there's one very useful feature that never gets enough play; virtual hosting.  In Liferay, virtual hosting is a free, out-of-the-box feature used to host more than one domain...

TOTVS Region: Brazil The word TOTVS comes from Latin and means everyone, everything or totality. It is also the name of the largest ERP software company in Latin America. TOTVS supplies the market with management, systemic, process, performance and infrastructure solutions, through its six business segments, ensuring higher competitiveness and enabling...

Developer Garden Region: Germany Developer Garden is a web 2.0-community that revolves around open source software development, allowing its users to download API's and other powerful tools for creating web applications.  

BE Region: UK "BE has been providing fast broadband since 2004. We were the first premium ISP in the country to provide ADSL+2 - which also happened to offer the fastest speeds around at the time. We are small enough to care and treat our members with respect, to be upfront with them and involve them but still cover around 70% of exchanges in the UK. But...

In October 2008, I was tasked to setup a dashboard/collaboration site for our team. Liferay was the obvious choice for me because of my past experience with this excellent product. It took me just two working days to have a usable solution for our group with some minor changes being done to the look and feel as well as the out of box permissions. The intranet site went live in late...

City Hall of Toulouse Region: France Toulouse.fr is a rich online resource for the city, offering the latest news, weather, tourism information, city history, videos, multimedia and more. The site also integrates message boards and other online services for citizens in the area.  

Xiamen C&D Tourism and Hotels Incorporation Region: China Xiamen C&D Tourism and Hotels Incorporation is a holding enterprise of C&D Group, one of China Top 100 enterprise group. Established in 2003, the Group is primarily engaged in the development, operation and management of tourism including hotels, travel agencies, and travel traffic. At...

Neotropical Birds Online Region: USA Neotropical Birds Online is an authoritative, online resource for life histories of Neotropical birds. These accounts are intended primarily for ornithologists, especially those based in the Neotropics, but also will prove useful to wildlife biologists, conservationists, amateur ornithologists with strong interests in...

Jackson International Region: USA Jackson Health System, an integrated healthcare delivery system, consists of its centerpiece, Jackson Memorial Hospital; Holtz Children's Hospital, Jackson Rehabilitation Hospital, Jackson North Medical Center and Jackson South Community Hospital; 12 primary care centers and two primary care mobile vans; multiple...

Clivet Region: Italy Clivet is a leading company in Europe which designs, produces and distributes systems for air conditioning, heating, fresh air and purification with a wide range of solutions for residential, commercial and industrial use. Established in Feltre, Belluno (Italy) in 1989, the company began its activity with the production of chillers...

The Museum of Fine Arts Region: Hungary The Museum of Fine Arts is in Heroes' Square, Budapest, Hungary, facing the Palace of Art. The museum's collection is made up of international art (other than Hungarian), including all periods of European art, and comprises more than 100,000 pieces. The collection is made up of various older additions such as those...

Watsons Asia Region: Hong Kong/Asia Building on its long-standing reputation for quality and innovation, Watsons Your Personal Store currently operates over 1,500 stores and 900 pharmacies in 10 Asian markets including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Korea and Indonesia and 3 European markets...