Blogs

By now it's obvious that the effects of a poor mobile experience are both immediate and far-reaching for business. A frustrating and not-so-user-friendly mobile interaction with your site could mean loss of brand loyalty and potential business. How can you offer a mobile user-centric experience that will serve your customers both in the present and future? A responsive website is...

Recent verscheen een artikel in NRC met de veelzeggende kop “Gegijzeld door de softwareboer”. Hert artikel put uit een onderzoek van Reporter Radio en NRC. U weet het misschien niet maar bijna alle Nederlandse gemeenten gebruiken ICT Systemen van twee bedrijven: Centric en Pink Roccade. Het artikel schetst de ervaring van de gemeenten met deze leveranciers, de klant is er niet bepaald...

Hofburg, Wien CC by-nd 2.0 by R. Halfpaap(English summary below) Servus nach Österreich. Mal wieder bin ich auf dem Weg nach Österreich. Aber dieses Mal komme ich nicht alleine angereist: Anlass ist dieses Mal das LPSF - oder Liferay Portal Solutions Forum - in Wien. Im Anschluss öffnen wir die Veranstaltung und laden zum Community Meeting ein. Die Veranstaltung ist frei und...

  We continue our path towards releasing Liferay 7 with a new alpha release that focuses on fixing bugs and small improvements. This release fixes 254 bugs since Alpha 1 and adds +100 small improvements. During this time we have also had the opportunity to present Liferay 7 twice: first in Germany during DevCon and later in Spain during the Spain Symposium. We are super...

How much do you know about the people who are visiting your website? The more you know, the greater chance you’ll have of reaching them and helping them find what they are looking for. User data allows us to fill in the blanks about our visitors such as age, gender, vocational background and other demographics. This means the more information you’ve gathered...

Liferay Developer Conference and Unconference 2015 were simply great. Lots of sessions, games and chances to meet some of the most active Liferay developers. It was also very exciting and encouraging to register the attention that Audience Targeting has drawn among developers in just one year. Both the session and the workshop led by Julio, Pavel and me were packed and we...

Let me introduce two simple and fun components from among our recently released Liferay Faces Alloy tags, alloy:selectStarRating and alloy:selectThumbRating.  Following the example set by our friends on the AlloyUI team, we packaged their rating component as a JSF component. AlloyUI StarRating + JSF ➔ Liferay Faces alloy:selectStarRating   And similarly, for a boolean...

At Liferay, we're always trying to make the life of developers easier. We're constantly improving our products and releasing new open source libraries. Helping people is what drives us. Last week we presented the Launchpad Project for the first time at Devcon. This is an initiative that we have been working for months and not many people had access to. Now, we're finally...

I'm slowly back to my regular sleep rhythm, after the highly anticipated sleep deprivation week that Devcon always is. Those ~450 participants that were there and made it the biggest and greatest Devcon so far will have seen that Liferay becomes a lot more serious in terms of messaging while still staying accessible on all levels. I've seen lots of connections being made and can...

Have you heard the news? The Liferay Symposium North America is coming Chicago this fall! Prepare for the Windy City this November by planning out your conference strategy beforehand and setting aside some time to check out the city’s most iconic sights and sounds. Even though you’re in town for business, you can still make time to enjoy the city. In the end, it’s all about the work-life...

That's a question we get often when we tell people what we do. Answers can range anywhere from a quick pitch like "a tool that allows people to build their websites" to something more specific like "a framework for integrating information, people and processes across organizational boundaries." (Thanks, Wikipedia) Though true, those answers don't always address the...

Hey folks!   The new version of Liferay Screens, version 1.2,  includes three of the the most demanded and awaited features coming from Liferay community. See? giving feedback pays off! (:   The first and most important one is the  offline support. Yes! This is our killer feature for this release, and we're...

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 about them because it's easy to abuse them for purposes for which they're not well suited - despite making the impression they might. CC BY-ND 2.0 by S. Benno This chapter is about...

Liferay Developer Conference (aka DEVCON) is a great chance for us to meet Liferay developers from all around the world every year. As for the last months we’ve been working on the new version of Audience Targeting, Julio and I very willingly proposed a talk about its new features and how to use them to integrate your apps with it.    But...

As a web-based platform, a portal allows users to connect with one another and find content that is relevant with ease and simplicity. It combines information from different sources into a single user interface. The portal’s functionality can provide a far-reaching impact on an organization and its processes. In fact, many companies throughout various industries are employing a...

As announced in my last blog post, the period of our milestones has finished and we are getting into the launch field with the release of Liferay 7 alpha 1. We appreciate all the feedback from the people downloading the milestones and participating in the Community Expedition program. If you haven’t sent your feedback yet, it’s never too late to make Liferay the best fit possible for...

The latest Magic Quadrant report from Gartner on the Horizontal Portal market has just been released, and you can find it here on our website. I just read it through and here’s what I noticed.   A Market Transformed First, the report opens with a strong statement on how much the portal market has changed: “The past five years has witnessed a massive transformation of...

The summer is over and it's time to crown the winners of the 2015 Liferay Screens App Contest! We had some awesome entries in the first ever contest of its kind, but two of them really stood out as great examples of the power of Screens and Liferay as a Mobile App Development Platform. So, I am honored to reveal the winners: My WiFi Directory - Sébastien Le Marchand With...

Do you remember the article that I wrote in March? It talked about Liferay's limitation to have each overloaded JSP only customizable from one hook. The limitation was not enforced, so deploying multiple hooks that overload the same JSP lead to undefined behaviour, potentially deleting the original JSP. CC BY 2.0 by David GoehringLuckily that has been fixed (currently in EE only,...

Multi-Module Projects Developers that are familiar with the version scheme of the Spring Framework will notice that each module has the same version number. For example: spring-beans-4.2.1.RELEASE.jar spring-context-4.2.1.RELEASE.jar spring-core-4.2.1.RELEASE.jar ... etc ... This is because the Spring Framework is configured as a multi-module...