Blogs

Nate Cavanaugh | 21/11/2008 02:42

It's been a while, but trust me, we've been working like crazy to get 5.2 out for your using pleasure. But, I arrive with a bit of a gift, especially for the marketing folks (or anyone curious)....

Bryan H Cheung | 19/11/2008 08:31

Some of you may have been following our developments with the analyst community, particularly Gartner and their 2008 Magic Quadrant reports. For those of that haven't, Liferay was recently...

Julio Camarero | 17/11/2008 15:38

Hi all, I started working for Liferay as a Core developper around two months ago and wanted to use this first post also to say hello to all the people I still don't know from the community, welcome...

Michael Young | 03/11/2008 20:19

The Beauty of Sponsored Development As a company that likes to work very closely with our community, we're often given the opportunity to work on some very interesting (and many times very...

JR Houn | 09/10/2008 17:52

Hi Everyone - Back again for my quarterly Selenium update. First of all - a very big and hearty thanks to everyone who has expressed interest in and has helped in testing and building up Liferay....

Brian Kim | 09/10/2008 13:48

It's only appropriate for there to be an entirely new look for a pair of new products, no? As I stated at the Liferay European Symposium, Liferay is evolving. We've grown a lot from the small, open...

Nate Cavanaugh | 09/10/2008 05:21

Hi all, it's been a while since I've blogged, and there has been good reasons. Liferay is taking off and we are growing like crazy, and as such, I've gotten less time to blog. But there has been a...

Ray Augé | 07/10/2008 17:27

Lately, Liferay has been following a trend toward externalizing extensibility features as much as possible. The traditional EXT model, while powerful, often proves too complex for many situations,...

Michael Young | 06/10/2008 21:26

A number of important issues have been addressed. 5.1.2 is a highly recommended upgrade. Highlights include: LDAP Synchronization and Authentication JSR 286 Conformance Transaction (Spring Tx)...

Michael Young | 03/10/2008 23:52

If you went to the Los Angeles Meetup in August or the European Symposium last week, you already have a leg up on some of our upcoming offerings: Liferay Enterprise Edition and Liferay Social...

Mika Koivisto | 03/10/2008 21:37

You've been heard! Out of box SiteMinder integration is here. Computer Associate’s (CA) SiteMinder is a centralized web access management system that enables user authentication and single sign-on,...

Neil Griffin | 30/09/2008 14:18

UPDATE: March 17, 2011 This blog post refers to an old version of ICEfaces (1.8). I would encourage you to try out the ICEfaces 2 versions of these portlets here:...

Brian Chan | 28/09/2008 09:01

Thanks to everyone who came to the European symposium. It was extremely fun and enjoyable! Here are some pictures and a summary of what happened. Here's Bryan Cheung giving his talk about how the...

Ray Augé | 23/09/2008 19:36

Update (Feb 1, 2011): The default permission algorithm from version 6.0+ is now 6. It uses a fast bitmask persistence implementation of RBAC and is functionally equivalent to 5. However, there is...

Ray Augé | 23/09/2008 19:32

Recently I was again asked how to call a more complex Liferay service using XSL. Here is an example of getting CalEvents from XSL and printing the list. The first thing you might find is that the...

Michael C. Han | 18/09/2008 14:45

Late last year, we started the process of upgrading our performance testing environments. Our previous performance environment were basically desktops with limited CPU and memory. The latest...

Ray Augé | 12/09/2008 05:36

Recently my friend Journal VM Template was feeling a little down in the dumps because of his lack of ability when it comes to handling XML content. He was feeling inferior to Journal XSL Template...

Richard Sezov | 09/09/2008 17:12

I am pleased to announce the availability of the Liferay Administrator's Guide, Second Edition. The Guide has now been exhaustively gone through and updated to support Liferay 5.1 (and below). But...

Scott Lee | 05/09/2008 17:05

Here are some screenshots for the new mail portlet. You can check out jerry's post on how to install the mail portlet. It is as simple as clicking around in the plugins installer. The mail...

Jerry Niu | 04/09/2008 21:42

With Liferay 5.1, we introduced a new Mail Portlet. Here are instructions on how to add it Start by getting to the "Plugins Installer". You'll see that the Mail Portlet is one of the options. ...

Sang Baek | 04/09/2008 03:05

Liferay Southeast Asia takes place in the beautiful coastal city of Kuala Terengganu in northeast peninsular Malaysia. More specifically, on the waterfront view of The Heritage Bay Club Marina &...

Ray Augé | 04/09/2008 02:28

Recently a coleague asked if it was possible to call java from XSL. It is possible, and here is the example I provided. <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"...

Thiago Leão Moreira | 01/09/2008 18:43

I just finished a new feature for the Message Boards portlet. The new feature consist of a mechanism to link a Message Boards category to an existent mailing list service. Enabling the users to...

Ray Augé | 28/08/2008 19:29

In Liferay we have this cool new feature to run portlets as embedded widgets from any webpage anywhere. Tired of loosing you chat sessions on every page refresh??? No more!!! Well feast your eyes...

Brian Chan | 26/08/2008 16:36

Previously, to customize a core portal JSP, you would have to use the ext environment. You can do it now in a plugin via our liferay-hook.xml file. Just specify a directory of where your custom...

Richard Sezov | 22/08/2008 19:27

Some people might be wondering why I've been so scarce around here. The reason for this is that I and my team have been heads-down working on a couple of brand new training courses that we will...

Jerry Niu | 22/08/2008 19:12

With Liferay 5.1, we introduced a new Chat Portlet. Here are instructions on how to add it Start by getting to the "Plugins Installer". You'll see that the Chat Portlet is one of the options. ...

Neil Griffin | 21/08/2008 00:37

UPDATE! Here is a video+transcript of the presentation given at the JSFOne conference: http://java.dzone.com/videos/filthy-rich-portlets And here is a similar webinar on ICEfaces .org in both .wmv...

Neil Griffin | 21/08/2008 00:25

Perhaps I'm dating myself, but when I entered college in 1988, the Computer Science department required me to buy a Mac II because it was the only personal computer of the day that ran a type of...

Neil Griffin | 16/08/2008 10:37

UPDATE: 2019/01/11: Please refer to Kyle Stiemann's blog titled How can I share session data across portlets in Liferay? which discusses the various benefits and drawbacks of data sharing...

Arcko Duan | 16/08/2008 04:27

The open-source software movement (also known as the free software movement) received a boost Wednesday from the federal appeals court in Washington, according to an article from the New York...

Bruno Farache | 15/08/2008 23:18

We've made some enhancements to the search infrastructure of the portal recently. We abstracted out Lucene as a search engine, now people can build plugins that integrate with others search engines...

James Min | 14/08/2008 15:06

I've been being asked this a lot recently, so I'm going to blog it. Also a wiki on it. 5.1 To see a listing of available web services (v 5.1), you can go to the following URL with Liferay running...

Alvaro Del Castillo | 13/08/2008 16:37

Today is my last day working at Liferay as a full time employee. On 1st September I will start working at CENATIC, National Reference Centre for the Application of Open Source Information and...

Bryan H Cheung | 06/08/2008 06:26

Brian just wrote a great blog about the Meetup and I couldn't resist adding my usual philosophical shpiel. The Meetup this year was interesting because of how much it was a reflection of the social...

Brian Chan | 05/08/2008 19:01

Thanks to everyone who came to participate in last Friday's meetup in sunny Los Angeles! It was loads of fun. Check out www.flickr.com/photos/tags/liferaymeetup2008 for more pics. Here are the guys...

JR Houn | 01/08/2008 17:53

For the benefit of everyone who may not be able to attend the Liferay Meetup today, I'll be trying to update this blog post. Any noteable information, oustanding events, questions, I'll try and...

Ray Augé | 30/07/2008 23:48

Wan Gavin | 28/07/2008 13:46

据不完全统计，在开发web应用的时候每次重启web服务器每天每个程序员所花费的时候可以按小时计算。 每次等服务器启动都不是一件愉快的经历。 使用javarebel可以动态加载修改的类，不用每次重启web服务器。 安装 1 下载javarebel http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel/ 2 修改jvm参数 测试 checkpoint 1：控制台...

Alberto Montero | 21/07/2008 08:12

Hi all. Recently we have added support for python and javascript in the list of supported scripting languages. This is part of the results of the Romulus project (http://www.ict-romulus.eu). With...