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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, commercials and Internet ads. To successfully target your audience, companies are now challenged to deliver a meaningful message that appeals to user background and demographic. ...

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 station) in a brewery. We'll meet Tuesday, 4 November at 19:30 in Braustüb'l, Goebelstrasse 7. If you've been there in the previous years, you know the drill: Register for free beer....

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 Sourceforge’s downloads page. If you prefer to get them from a Maven repo you can get it from Liferay’s maven repo. If you prefer to get it from GitHub you can use...

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 ignore the characters and pronounce it correctly: cheek-sent-m-hy-ee. Really simple for our hungarian fellows, though). Last October 23th and 24th some coworkers, teachers and...

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. While this is great for a quick demo, you might want to do more in case of production setups. This is a part 1 of summary of a workshop held at Liferay's North America Symposium 2014 in Boston. Like in the...

Ayer anuncié durante una de mis charlas en el Liferay Spain Symposium 2014 que estábamos trabajando en la organización de un workshop que versará sobre el desarrollo de aplicaciones Liferay bajo la nueva arquitectura que verá la luz en nuestra próxima release. ¿Cómo funciona? Se celebrará en las oficinas de Liferay España y no existe una fecha concreta Fecha...

If you haven’t heard the news yet, Liferay has been named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals for the fifth year in a row, and we’ve placed second only to IBM—and well ahead of SAP, Microsoft, and Oracle. We’re really excited about our placement in this year’s report, and so are our partners and customers. At our annual user conference, many people shared that...

I'm happy to announce that Liferay has listened to your feedback and created a tutorial on Using Liferay-UI Tabs and Sections. Using Liferay-UI's tabs and section tags are a quick and easy solution to keeping your apps UI clean and well organized with minimal effort. The tutorial covers how you can get the most out of your tabs by using sections to include text, JSPs, or whatever you...

It was great to participate in the Liferay North American Symposium this year. With hundreds of Liferay users (customers, partners, community members...) and dozens of presentations, it was not only a huge success but also a great opportunity to share user experiences and get your feedback. North American Symposium is over, but Liferay World Tour 2014 is not! There are still ...

At Liferay's North American Symposium, I announced the immediate availability of a new website we've developed specifically for those who use Liferay and write code on its platform. We call this site the Liferay Developer Network. This site is the new home for Liferay's documentation and, by the time it gets out of beta, Liferay's community pages. After receiving good feedback...

     Sync Beta 3.0 is out!     We are very close to release Sync 3.0 and need your feedback! We have made a complete UI revamp since the last version, take a look at the screenshots bellow:                            ...

Yesterday we visited the Rijksmuseum as a guest of KPN and 's Heerenloo. I was presented with their new and very special portal named JiP. JiP is a portal based on Liferay and has a customized interface to make it accessible via one button. Why an interface with one button?   To give the people with intellectual disabilities access to content, games and internet based on...

It’s less than a week left until Liferay North America Symposium (NAS), the first of a series of events where we’ll have the chance to first-hand explain to our users what we’ve been working on this year. In particular, workshops will give us the opportunity to go deeper in some of our most popular features, as we will have the time to review and solve some real use cases. In...

On September 26, 2014 Liferay released the 2nd Milestone of Liferay Faces 4.2.0: Liferay Faces 4.2.0-m2 JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 Release Notes All New Showcase The Liferay Faces Showcase has is hosted at www.liferayfaces.org and features a suite of new Java-based JSF components, many of which...

The fall season is upon us, which means the Liferay Symposium North America is right around the corner! In order to maximize your experience, we suggest coming with a basic list of goals and expectations. Having a good conference strategy will ensure you make the most of the sessions, workshops, and other activities at the event. Our friends over at HubSpot have provided a...

Since my last blog post, I have gotten quite a few emails and questions about what the future of front end engineering looks like now that Yahoo has ended new development on YUI. What I'd like to cover here is a general overview of where we've decided to go and the reasoning behind the direction. After much thought and discussion, we've decided that AlloyUI 3 will be our final...

Our most recent update to Social Office EE for Liferay Portal 6.2 was uploaded to Liferay Marketplace today. Social Office 3.1 EE provides several improvements over version 3.0 EE, released earlier in the year. You can view the changelog here to get a complete list of fixes and enhancements, but here’s a few of my favorite:   Improved Dockbar Notifications:  ...

Welcome to Boston Liferay is excited to be in Boston this October for the Liferay Symposium North America. This year’s Back Bay venue captures the historic beauty of Bean Town as well as reflecting its modern cityscape.  Boston à l'heure bleue by Manu_H is licensed under CC BY 2.0. © 2010, E. Huybrechts. ...

In this blog we will configure OpenAM as Identity provider and Liferay as Service Provider using SAML 2.0. Follow below steps : Download OpenAM 11.0.0 war file from https://backstage.forgerock.com/#/downloads Deploy the war file in Tomcat (Lets say Port 8081). Increase heap and param space. Start the server and hit...

The word is out in Twitter, we have released the first development milestone release of Liferay 7. This is a call for really adventurous developers to try it out and give us your feedback. Here are the answers to the questions you may have about the release.   So… is Liferay 7 close to being released? Nope. Our current thinking is that Liferay 7 will be released...