Blogs

Ray Augé | 16/09/2010 14:21

So my last blog post involved a classloader trick for velocity but it also involved a problem of dynamically listing article fragments on a page. Now, there are a few ways to do this, but the two...

Ray Augé | 16/09/2010 14:00

Recently I was asked to solve a WCM dynamic Template problem which involved listing articles using the business logic of the template. One of the first problems I encountered was of course doing a...

Greg Amerson | 15/09/2010 20:12

The latest version of Liferay IDE version 1.1 has just been released to the update sites. To see a list of the new features and improvements take a look at the Liferay IDE 1.1 New and Noteworthy....

Joshua Asbury | 14/09/2010 17:02

Over the next couple of weeks, Liferay and our partners are going to present a series of roadshows around the country. With the recent release of Liferay 6 EE, we want to provide our customers a...

Paul Hinz | 11/09/2010 01:08

Liferay 6EE is complete and was launched at Liferay's West Coast Symposium. It should be obvious now we were purposely quiet leading up to this launch but now with the hood off, there are several...

Julio Camarero | 07/09/2010 15:51

(See English version below) En octubre se celebrará en Málaga (España) el Open Source World Conference, una de las conferencias más importantes en materia de software libre a nivel europeo. Desde...

Igor Spasić | 07/09/2010 14:00

These are some quick steps how to use Derby DB with Portal 6. (1) Prepare Portal Database This shall be done only once. + modify derby/bin/ij.bat by adding: set...

Igor Spasić | 03/09/2010 10:18

Liferay portal can be deployed to many app servers. Cool thing is that from version 6 there are ant targets for downloading and preparing app server of your choice. (1) Download and prepare app...

Igor Spasić | 01/09/2010 20:00

By default, liferay themes uses velocity templates. For example, classic theme (.../tomcat-6.0.x/webapps/ROOT/html/themes/classic/templates) uses several (*.vm) velocity templates. But Liferay...

Igor Spasić | 01/09/2010 14:43

I use IntelliJ IDEA for portal and plugins development. Also, I currently experiment with different project configuration and, therefore, have IntelliJ module files (*.iml) everywhere. For now, I...

Mika Koivisto | 01/09/2010 03:32

That's a question I've head many times and in this post I will show you just how to do that. These instructions are for Liferay 6 CE GA3 Tomcat 6.0 bundle however you can use any app server...

Paul Hinz | 01/09/2010 02:09

Igor Spasić | 31/08/2010 09:18

Portal minifies JS and CSS; and optimizes HTML (by stripping unnecessary characters, etc). Such files are optimized for production, but not for humans :) that dig into the code during development...

Igor Spasić | 31/08/2010 09:04

public class Liferay { String $ = "YIYEEILLI:L" + "FIYRELYR)IoLERoLtIaAFF" + "lILRpLYIlLaIARoLRLoIlL" + "YAoIRRrYFY." ; String $$= "LIFERAY.portal:)"; String $$$ ="liferay.com"; byte[] o;int...

Mika Koivisto | 24/08/2010 18:21

Freemarker is a template language very similar to Velocity. Starting from Liferay 6.0 Liferay supports also Freemarker templates in themes and Web Content templates. In this post I will show how...

Alexander Chow | 24/08/2010 10:59

For a while now, Liferay has offered Basic authentication for various servlets (e.g., WebDAV, JSON, etc.). For the most part, this has suited most of our needs. However, recently, there have been...

Barrie Selack | 23/08/2010 02:34

This is the second part of a series of blogs and wiki articles on using gadgets in Liferay. In the blog we'll look at a gadget in action and in the associated wiki post we'll breakdown the gadget,...

Wilson Man | 18/08/2010 04:23

Liferay 6.0 now comes with an additional Single Sign-On option - Facebook SSO using OAuth 2.0. Setup is quite easy. Let me walk you through the steps below. 1. In order for Facebook SSO to work,...

Brian Chan | 16/08/2010 23:20

GA 3 is a bug fix release for GA 2. Changes are available on our Issue Tracker. Downloads are available on SF.net.

Paul Hinz | 13/08/2010 23:21

Liferay 6 EE is almost done - it's great - and we're having a party. Over the last year and a half, most of Liferay spent heads down digging through reports, reviews, strategies, ideas, code,...

Barrie Selack | 12/08/2010 15:53

This is the first part of a series of blogs and wiki articles on using gadgets in Liferay. In this first part we'll discuss gadgets use and how to deploy a gadget. So, will gadgets replace...

Ronald Sarayudej | 07/08/2010 00:02

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Region: Canada Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.1 Since its first $2,000 auction in 1958, Ritchie Bros. has conducted thousands of unreserved public auctions worldwide. Its...

Ronald Sarayudej | 04/08/2010 00:07

LOT Polish Airlines Region: Poland Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.2 Since 1928, LOT Polish Airlines has met the transportation needs of individual and corporate customers flying to and from Poland...

Samuel Liu | 02/08/2010 23:03

Today was my first day playing with the Liferay IDE. It is really good! It basically streamlines all the little processes that create friction for Liferay developers and lets you handle everything...

Neil Griffin | 30/07/2010 16:38

During a recent class I taught on ICEfaces, one of my students asked me why the calendar was often one day off from what got posted back to the model managed-bean setter. For example: // Facelets...

Jorge Ferrer | 30/07/2010 10:23

Después de un año de pausa este año vuelve de nuevo la Open Source World Conference en Málaga. Después del gran éxito del Symposium en Madrid, nos hemos quedado con ganas de más y hemos pensado que...

Ronald Sarayudej | 29/07/2010 22:38

Barcelona Bus Turistic Region: Spain Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Established in 1987, Barcelona Bus Turístic is the official sightseeing tour of the city. Open to all, this sightseeing service is...

Ronald Sarayudej | 27/07/2010 22:38

DAN: Divers Alert Network Region: Europe Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 DAN helps divers in need, 24/7, anywhere in the world, with medical emergency assistance, and promotes diving safety through...

Jorge Ferrer | 27/07/2010 10:32

Along with all the functional and architectural improvements of Liferay 6, we've also tried to improve our release process based on the feedback that we've received from the community and customers...

Juan Fernández | 26/07/2010 11:54

A new functionallity in Liferay 6 are the so called "Sanitizers". What are sanitizers? Sanitizers are a filtering element that "sanitize" web content (usually HTML or javascript code) so that it...

Ray Augé | 25/07/2010 04:50

We've been saying for a long time that you could write plugins in a variety of languages, but we never really had any examples to prove that. Of course some languages will be far simpler to achieve...

Brian Chan | 23/07/2010 16:40

GA 2 is a quick bug fix release for GA 1 that was released last week. It includes many bug fixes. Thanks to everyone who helped out. New features for Liferay 6 are listed on our Wiki. Release notes...

Nate Cavanaugh | 20/07/2010 16:03

One of the biggest feature requests from Liferay 5.2 was the ability to upgrade the included version of jQuery. Many users would like to use third-party plugins, and most of those require the...

Brian Chan | 16/07/2010 00:20

Whew. Just finished the upload the Liferay Portal 6 GA! We hope you enjoy this release. Thank you for letting us serve you. We'll be blog'ng, wiki'ng, webinar'ng, and document'ng the many new...

Ray Augé | 15/07/2010 21:44

Some of the latest details about Liferay Staging in 6.0 are now on the Wiki: Staging - 6.0 Local Live Remote Live Better Differential Publishing Stored connections settings for remote staging (as...

Samuel Liu | 13/07/2010 22:09

Moved to the Liferay Community Wiki

Zsolt Berentey | 13/07/2010 13:24

Social Equity is a brand new feature in Liferay version 6. It is based on the white paper and calculations of Peter Reiser from SUN Microsystems. The objective is to build a dynamic social capital...

Juan Fernández | 13/07/2010 10:28

Hi guys! One of the many great improvements of Liferay 6 is the workflow system, as many of you already know. We have been working hard on it and we have developed lots of new functionallities that...

Sergio González | 13/07/2010 07:22

Liferay 6 offers a new functionality to easily manage sites and pages by using templates. New templates can be designed in Page Templates and Site Templates sections in Control Panel....

Samuel Liu | 12/07/2010 23:57

I wanted to write an easy installation guide among other things. This is how to install Liferay's Tomcat Bundle on your system and to get it running with ease. Linux & OSX 1) Download and install...