Blogs

Ray Augé | 03/09/2011 18:05

Over the past several months I've been working on integrating an OSGi framework into Liferay Portal. The reasons for doing so are varied but include solutions to app server/servlet container...

Neil Griffin | 02/09/2011 22:59

Introduction I recently had the opportunity to launch an Amazon EC2 instance and setup Liferay & MySQL. There were a couple of hurdles that I had to overcome, so I thought I would share the...

Olaf Kock | 01/09/2011 16:47

Episode 2 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Rich Sezov, Liferay's Knowledge Manager, author of the upcoming book "Liferay in Action" and Alter Ego of "Rich Editor" for those of you who...

Juan Fernández | 30/08/2011 18:58

Hi all! In a recent project I had to add these portlets ("My Workflow Tasks" and "My Submissions") to a normal user page. By default they are shown in the control panel, but depending on your...

James Falkner | 30/08/2011 14:41

By popular demand, below is a technical description and source code of the new Community Activity Map that I posted a couple of weeks ago. Overview I started on this back in December 2010 when we...

Olaf Kock | 26/08/2011 12:32

Let's have another community meeting - this time I'll be able to speak the local language: 5. September, 19:00 in Hamburg, "Abaton Kneipe", Grindelhof, close to the university. Please comment here...

Ray Augé | 26/08/2011 02:58

To continue a recent string of theme related posts, I'm going to add another on the recently added feature allowing addition of advanced input controls and behaviors to theme settings. Themes are...

James Min | 25/08/2011 22:29

I'll be running a workshop at Liferay WCS on Backend Integrations in September, and also presenting at the first Jenkins User Conference (JUC) in October where Liferay is a sponsor. Liferay WCS...

Bryan H Cheung | 25/08/2011 11:11

Paul Hinz forwarded us an old whitepaper and presentation from IBM back in 2009 that sought to debunk the "myth of free open source portals." The main idea was that open source portals might save...

Jeffrey Handa | 24/08/2011 18:00

Greetings Liferay Community! Based on the positive feedback we received after the East Coast Symposium, we will again be offering the Portal Administrator Express training in conjunction with the...

Joshua Asbury | 23/08/2011 16:31

I'm working on my Liferay West Coast Symposium presentation which is meant to discuss how game culture can help build and enhance social collaboration for organizations. I use Foursquare,...

Ray Augé | 22/08/2011 19:24

Ok, so in the last post I talked about JSP Include Buffer. That post talked about how you'd override JSPs from Liferay's core in a maintainable way. Now I'd like to introduce you to a Liferay Theme...

Ray Augé | 22/08/2011 13:54

There are plenty of times when you might want to alter the default views of the portal. I'm not going to go into the why since that is hugely subjective. What I do want to show is the how you can...

Brett Swaim | 20/08/2011 00:41

Hello Liferay Community! I'll be running an upgrade workshop during WCS 2011 in Anaheim, CA. During that workshop, I'll be upgrading a Liferay 5.2.3 installation to Liferay 6.1 CE. I have data that...

Vincent Liu | 19/08/2011 06:32

Context Path of portal can be changed by following the steps(eg. root-->portal): 1. Add portal.ctx=/portal to portal-ext.properties file(create a new if it does not exist by you yet). 2. Rename the...

Olaf Kock | 18/08/2011 21:27

Episode 1 of Liferay Radio is out. I'm speaking with James Falkner, Liferay's community manager. We spoke about these Topics (and probably more): The community homepage on liferay.org...

Olaf Kock | 18/08/2011 12:26

Let me introduce myself as the one who wants to be the resident german accent in your ears. After a long time of "just intending" I finally went ahead and started recording a podcast about Liferay...

Juan Fernández | 18/08/2011 10:16

¡Muy buenas! Esta vez no voy a escribir sobre liferay, ni siquiera sobre tecnología, sino sobre personas. Personas que como tú y como yo tienen sueños, proyectos, ilusiones...pero que han visto...

James Falkner | 17/08/2011 13:57

You may have noticed a new feature on our community homepage, http://liferay.org - the Recent Activity Map is a dynamic Google Map that displays activities from our community, as they happen. The...

Igor Spasić | 13/08/2011 15:02

Currently, our lib/development folder contains a lot of jars that are actually not used in development. Significant number (or, better, significant amount) is used for tests. Among these is...