Blogs

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...

Ray Augé | 11.08.2011 21:58

Recently I was asked how to do this! Well, it's rather simple (providing you understand the limitations of accessing portlets without permission, and portlets that are not allowed to be loaded...

Neil Griffin | 11.08.2011 17:47

If you have a Maven repository running under https with a self-signed certificate, then building a Maven project can report the following error: Error transferring file:...

Olaf Kock | 11.08.2011 16:10

Shortcut: If you "just" want to know how to make different distinct sites (read: communities or organizations) appear as just one site, continue below the reasoning. Problem space Permissions are a...

James Falkner | 11.08.2011 14:58

We all know that Liferay is a great social content and collaboration platform, which is why we at Liferay use it to implement our liferay.com website. There are tons of interesting potential...

Olaf Kock | 10.08.2011 09:56

If you are planning to come to the Westcoast Symposium and have mourned about the announcement for Lightning talks being limited to the European Symposium, you can cheer up: We will have Lightning...

James Falkner | 04.08.2011 19:33

Hi all, it's time for another installment of your linky-linky Community Roundup! It's been quite busy in the community and at Liferay. Community activity is buzzing and we are gearing up for...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | 01.08.2011 10:40

Who has not ever had to fight with complex SQL queries and PreparedStatements? And, what about the ? symbol when enabling the sql log? Last week I had to write a big migration process in order to...

Greg Amerson | 29.07.2011 06:01

Liferay IDE 1.3 Now Available to Download A new stable release of Liferay IDE, version 1.3, is now available now on the stable update-site URL for existing Helios users here:...

Armin Cyrus Dahncke | 27.07.2011 13:16

A crucial point for any project is the use of cache strategies, especially when you try to implement a project the first time on a new infrastructure. Therefore I will give some hints how you can...

Olaf Kock | 27.07.2011 11:29

Registration for the 4th European Symposium is open. In addition to the formats known from the last years, we're planning to add Lightning Talks to the event - If you plan to come to the symposium,...

Marcellus Tavares | 25.07.2011 20:10

In the second post of the DDL series I would like to present two more porlets related to the Dynamic Data Lists: The first one is the Dynamic Data List Display. Its purpose is to exhibit a...

Neil Griffin | 22.07.2011 21:11

Back in April of this year I had the opportunity to speak at the CON-FESS conference in Vienna, Austria. One of the exhibitors there was zeroturnaround.com and I had the privilege of sitting next...

Thiago Leão Moreira | 22.07.2011 17:22

Salve Brasil! Agora é a vez de São Paulo sediar mais uma sequência de treinamentos oficiais da Liferay. Estaremos oferecendo todos os 3 treinamentos regulares durante uma semana e meia em Agosto....

James Falkner | 13.07.2011 20:14

You may have seen a previous mention of the Community BugSquad program in my last Community Roundup. I'm excited to announce that the program has officially kicked off today! The amazing...

Marcellus Tavares | 12.07.2011 18:12

One of the cool features that is coming in the next release of Liferay is the Dynamic Data Lists. Basically, dynamic lists are a collection of information that you want to share. Lists resemble...

Igor Spasić | 11.07.2011 10:29

Here is a quick step-by-step tutorial on how to get and run Liferay Portal. Easy as 1-2-3 :) Please share. http://www.liferay.com/quick-start

Bryan H Cheung | 08.07.2011 07:58

June 15th was our first-ever Liferay France Symposium held in Paris. We had a healthy turnout of over 100 community members, customers, and partners, who came together to learn about what's new in...

Francisco Fernandez | 07.07.2011 14:23

LOS ANGELES – Liferay, primer suministrador mundial de plataformas web corporativas Open Source, ha anunciado su intención de ofrecer una compatibilidad completa con CMIS 1.0 en la próxima versión...

Paul Hinz | 06.07.2011 23:53

Liferay's Responsibility to Community Open source is a productive model for the development of software. We believe it is the best choice for the development of Liferay and, therefore, we are...

Sergio González | 06.07.2011 10:44

Con cada nueva versión, Liferay incluye muchas nuevas funcionalidades que son demandadas por los usuarios y la comunidad. Una de las mejoras más importantes de la versión 6.1 es la renovada gestión...

Olaf Kock | 05.07.2011 14:34

Setting up Remote Staging for a community (or organization) in Liferay is easy: On the staging machine go to "Manage Settings, Staging", select "Remote Live" as staging type and provide the...

Iliyan Peychev | 03.07.2011 03:05

Liferay 6.1 will have one more significant improvement because we just added History support to trunk. It will allow JavaScript developers to restore the normal browser behavior and the user will...

Jorge Ferrer | 29.06.2011 17:50

Ayer se celebró en Barcelona el primer "Liferay Dream Day". Este evento fue posible gracias a nuestro partner iSoco, que cuenta con gran experiencia en actividades de innovación, y fue una gran...

Jorge Ferrer | 29.06.2011 16:25

Yesterday we held the first ever "Liferay Dream Day" event in Barcelona. This event was possible thanks to our partner iSoco who is highly specialized in innovation activities and it was an amazing...

Ronald Sarayudej | 28.06.2011 23:56

International Charter Space & Major Disasters International Charter Space & Major Disasters was initiated by European space agencies to provide space data acquisition and delivery to people...

Ronald Sarayudej | 28.06.2011 23:51

Palestinian Youth Portal Region: Palestine The Palestinian Youth Portal is a partnership between public and private sectors to create economic opportunities for the Palestinian people and help them...

Ronald Sarayudej | 28.06.2011 17:35

AnyWeb|Osys Region: Switzerland Version: Liferay Portal 6.0 AnyWeb|Osys is the biggest Cisco-authorized learning partner in Switzerland. They offer hands-on training courses with the right...

Greg Amerson | 24.06.2011 19:06

Just a quick note Liferay IDE users who are wanting to upgrade to Eclipse Indigo. At the moment the stable version of LIferay (1.2.3) does not support Eclipse Indigo. However, the next version of...

Francisco Fernandez | 24.06.2011 13:19

LOS ANGELES – Liferay, primer suministrador mundial de plataformas web corporativas Open Source, ha anunciado que Liferay Portal está siendo traducido a más de 40 idiomas. En respuesta a la...

Jeffrey Handa | 18.06.2011 05:52

Greetings everyone. There has been a lot going on in the Liferay Training department and I wanted to give you a quick update of what we’ve been up to and what’s coming up in the next couple...

Paul Hinz | 17.06.2011 19:17

We recently posted a description of our trademark policy to help the community more easily understand the proper use of Liferay trademarks. There are two categories of use defined within the...

Bruno Farache | 16.06.2011 14:46

We just integrated our Chat portlet with Jabber! This means portal users can now choose their preferred desktop chat client (such as Pidgin, Trillian or Adium) to chat with other users, here's an...

Julio Camarero | 15.06.2011 07:01

Many people ask us frequently, is liferay accessible? Does it validate level AA of [FILL_WITH_YOUR_ACCESSIBILITY_STANDARD_HERE]? (It could be WCAG1.0, WCAG2.0, Section 508, RGAA...) And it is not...

Francisco Fernandez | 14.06.2011 12:24

MADRID--Liferay España, filial del primer suministrador mundial de plataformas Web corporativas Open Source, organiza el próximo 30 de junio en Sevilla un encuentro con empresas y usuarios de...

James Falkner | 13.06.2011 17:01

8 Days to the official start of summer in the northern hemisphere. 2 days until the France Symposium. That sounds like a good reason for another community roundup! Hope everyone has a safe and...

Paul Hinz | 10.06.2011 21:59

Liferay Portal provides an excellent platform for building web applications, websites, and portals, but recently customers have been looking at a new category of web applications called "social...

James Falkner | 10.06.2011 17:25

The past couple of years I've seen many examples of using Liferay's built-in JSON services in various ways. The architecture and syntax of this feature has undergone several refinements in the...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | 10.06.2011 10:24

This is the first entry on my Liferay blog so, first of all, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Miguel Pastor and I have only been working four months in Liferay (since March 2011) but...

Steve George | 09.06.2011 08:25

After months of preparation, careful planning, Liferay Hungary Kft, finally hosted its first annual Hungary Symposium with over 100 attendees who were at awe with the new offerings Liferay has to...

Edward Han | 02.06.2011 16:21

Starting in 6.1 there will be a change in how caches are configured for the portal and plugins. This new mechanism only applies for ehcache caches. Changes to default cache configuration:...

Daniel Sanz | 31.05.2011 12:44

Today we have created the Liferay Portal project at translate.liferay.com As part of our effort of improving the Liferay translation process, some time ago we set up a Pootle site and created...

Igor Spasić | 30.05.2011 16:56

Some news regarding JSON serialization and exposing service API as JSON web services... We have a new JSON serialization tool that we call 'loose serialization'. It automatically serializes any...

James Min | 27.05.2011 15:42

I finally got around to watching the film, Welcome To Macintosh. I thought it was hilarious, whether you are an Apple fanboy, a staunch Windows user, or Linux freak (like me). I thought this...

Nate Cavanaugh | 23.05.2011 05:06

Bryan recently blogged about the new site design and how Liferay.com is displaying a mobile formatted website for different types of devices (go ahead and test it out, hop into any browser and...

James Falkner | 19.05.2011 20:39

Wow, has it really been one month since my last roundup? Apologies! As usual, there are many moving parts to the World of Liferay and I spend a lot of time trying to keep up with it all, and...

Olaf Kock | 19.05.2011 16:29

Bonjour, the swedish community meeting is just over and the french symposium is just around the corner. Nevertheless: I'll be in Paris in the week before the symposium, and I'd like to meet people...

Paul Hinz | 17.05.2011 19:22

Our Liferay East Coast Symposium was held last week outside Washington D.C., doubling the size of last year's ECS. The event was designed to support community members, prospective Liferay...

Bryan H Cheung | 13.05.2011 10:10

I am happy to announce that Liferay.com is now running on Liferay Portal 6 EE. The re-fresh is a minor one with respect to content but a major infrastructural upgrade that will pave the way for...

Richard Sezov | 12.05.2011 22:03

I've learned a lot while writing Liferay in Action. I'm going through my final edits now before the book goes through its production cycle, tightening up the prose and making sure everything is as...