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Zeno Rocha | 04.03.2013 18:18

Some weeks ago we announced the preview release of AlloyUI 2.0. One of the cool things about it is that now we have a pretty new CDN (Content Delivery Network). So instead of downloading AlloyUI to...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | 28.02.2013 22:09

It has been two years since I joined Liferay, it is incredible how fast time is going. Two amazing years I have been trying to enjoy as much as possible. First of all I would like to thank all my...

Neil Jin | 28.02.2013 02:23

In the real world project, there are times when a team develops some feature like google map, twitter, facebook that need remote javascript library between several portlets but for the same portal....

Olaf Kock | 26.02.2013 20:46

I'll be in Rome on 7. March 2013 and would like to keep up the infrequent habit to meet members of the community. Unfortunately so far nobody answered with their intent to come - and my favoured...

James Falkner | 25.02.2013 16:05

Time for another community roundup! It's been far too long since the last one, and as usual a lot has been happening in and around our community. I hope everyone has had a good beginning to the...

Richard Sezov | 21.02.2013 00:08

One of the benefits of moving our documentation out of LibreOffice and into Markdown is that Markdown converts to many publishable formats. We're already converting it into Liferay web content for...

Ronald Sarayudej | 15.02.2013 22:42

Interview all liferay.com stakeholders about website redesign. Create affinity diagram to find common issues and brainstorm solutions. Create plan for improving liferay.com site flow and site...

Djalma Araujo | 15.02.2013 18:42

Hi everyone! As you know, recently launched Alloy 2.0. To illustrate a bit and have it be something else in our day to day, I made a simple wallpaper of our alloy. Possibly make others more...

James Falkner | 14.02.2013 03:17

In the first installment of this series, I showed several (hopefully useful) code snippets demonstrating the programmatic creation of various things in Liferay - pages, portlets, and structured web...

Olaf Kock | 11.02.2013 11:06

Exposing well hidden features Those of you who attended my "Well Hidden Features of Liferay" presentation at the 2012 european symposium might remember the well hidden monitoring information that...

Jim Hinkey | 08.02.2013 19:59

If you have been curious about Maven, or if you would like to use Maven to develop Liferay plugins, we have a new chapter dedicated to Maven--Developing plugins using Maven found in the Liferay...

Ray Augé | 07.02.2013 19:29

Ok, so don't. This doesn't mean you can't gain advantage of Liferay. Also, what follows is not just a story about Sharepoint. If you have any HTML site of any kind you can gain advantages from...

Djalma Araujo | 06.02.2013 23:23

During a joint meeting in Liferay Brazil, Fernando Areias had an idea of being able to deploy (portlets, themes, etc.), or any component of the SDK derived directly from the Finder by selecting one...

James Falkner | 06.02.2013 06:30

Ding dong! The witch is dead! Which old witch? The 7Cogs witch! [EDIT: Part II covers additional stuff beyond this post!). This isn't news anymore - Starting with 6.1, Liferay replaced the sample...

Ray Augé | 05.02.2013 04:44

Liferay has been slowly integrating an OSGi framework into it's core; not in the sense that Liferay will nessecarily run "within" an OSGi runtime itself (there are arguments for doing that, and...

Eduardo Lundgren | 05.02.2013 00:47

For years Alloy has been known as the JavaScript Framework behind Liferay. This was great, because it's helped the project to grow a lot, but at the same time, it has restricted the project to a...

Bruno Farache | 04.02.2013 22:52

We just released updates to Sync Android and iOS! This update includes some nice features: Renaming of files and folders Upload and deletion of multiple files Mark files as favorites for offline...

Milen Dyankov | 22.01.2013 23:05

The title will probably make some people argue that it was never gone on the first place. That's true. But there are some resources out there trying to convince you that User and Power User roles...

Jorge Ferrer | 21.01.2013 10:04

Here I am again with another in the series about Liferay's architecture. If you haven't read them yet, the four previous entries covered: Overview, Services Layer, Web Services and Service Builder....

Olaf Kock | 17.01.2013 22:06

This is another episode recorded at the European Symposium 2012 in Wiesbaden. Zsolt Balogh, head of Liferay's Support for the EMEA reason talks about the pain points that led to developing a custom...

Neil Griffin | 16.01.2013 20:08

I really enjoyed the JSFCentral Interview by Kito Mann. The podcast was posted on December 06, 2012. Some of the topics we discussed: Liferay Portal Liferay Faces JSR 329 CDI

James Falkner | 16.01.2013 19:16

One of Liferay's key strengths has always been its flexibility. This stems from Liferay starting out as a consultant-based, services-oriented company. Every customer had different requirements...

Milen Dyankov | 14.01.2013 22:24

Ever wandered what it takes to build a product like Liferay? Let me show you in a ... very visual way. Please sit comfortably and watch how the time flies (not to mention the developers) and...

Minhchau Dang | 09.01.2013 20:24

Many years ago, Liferay's build validation was only getting started and so JSP pre-compilation related slowness wasn't a big deal (I think it was really only used during the distribution process)....

Zeno Rocha | 09.01.2013 16:48

Today, Paul Miller released a nice list of the ”Most active GitHub users”. People started to talk about it and suddenly I received a lot of congratulations messages for being the #50 most active...

James Falkner | 08.01.2013 20:07

Everyone knows of Liferay's flagship software product, Liferay Portal, but Liferay actually develops and releases many other products in the Liferay ecosystem. At any one time, development is...

Minhchau Dang | 05.01.2013 01:53

Once upon a time, a long time Liferay user decided to upgrade from an old version of Liferay (Liferay 6.0 GA2) to a new version of Liferay (Liferay 6.1 GA2). They performed this upgrade by shutting...

Jorge Ferrer | 26.12.2012 13:02

One of Liferay's "secret" ingredients, specially with regards to its architecture, is Service Builder. This is the tool that glues together all of Liferay's layers and that hides the complexities...

Jorge Ferrer | 26.12.2012 12:04

It's taken a little longer than planned due to Liferay's annual company retreat and the engineering retreat we did along with it, but here I am with the third entry in the Liferay's Architecture...

Greg Amerson | 24.12.2012 04:22

Just before the holidays I'd like to let everyone know about the two most recent releases of Liferay developer tooling. Back in November, we released a bug-fix release of Liferay IDE version...

Olaf Kock | 22.12.2012 17:05

New year's resolution: Publish more podcast episodes. Let's start - Happy New Year, wishing you all the best for 2013... This is a solo episode with yours truly. I had a lot of fun preparing and...

Neil Griffin | 21.12.2012 14:52

Note: This blog post has been moved to the Liferay Faces Wiki.

James Falkner | 18.12.2012 21:58

What do you think? This refrain is commonly found in forum posts, emails, and other postings throughout our community, both from employees of Liferay and its wider open source community. It's...

Ronald Sarayudej | 15.12.2012 00:09

Multiple offices, catching up on life and Liferay Every year, we gather all the ranks of Liferay worker bees from across the universe, via planes, trains, and cars, so we can take part in what is...

Neil Griffin | 04.12.2012 20:07

On December 11, 2012 Liferay released the 2nd General Availability (GA) release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.1-ga2 (JSF 2.0/2.1 + Liferay 6.1.x) Liferay Faces 3.0.1-ga2 (JSF 2.0/2.1 +...

Olaf Kock | 01.12.2012 14:52

Yes, I know. I didn't keep my previous promise to quickly follow up with the next episode. Thus, I'm not promising again, only revealing that I'm planning to be quicker in future. This is another...

Ronald Sarayudej | 30.11.2012 01:39

Liferay.com is getting a facelift. Fresh theme, content, re-flowed flows - the whole 10 yards (why would anyone want to go only 9 yards, when it doesn't even get them a 1st down?). And we're not...

Ken Dong | 27.11.2012 22:28

Some of you who may have been to this year's North American Symposium you may have heard Bryan Cheung share about our partnership with an Inner City Organization called World Impact. Here's a...

Jorge Ferrer | 22.11.2012 16:13

Here I am again for a second entry on the series of Liferay Architecture. This time I'm going to talk a bit more about the services layer of Liferay. As can be seen in the architecture diagram with...

Joshua Asbury | 21.11.2012 14:56

In response to some of the recent happenings at HP with the purchase of Autonomy, TechCrunch has released its verdict that "The enterprise software space is a giant, stinking mess." Frankly, I...