Blogs

Jan Eerdekens | 19.03.2015 22:00

Last year I spent a lot of time looking into how AngularJS could be used in a portal environment, more specifically Liferay. That research culminated in a pretty technical and quite lengthy blog...

Juan Fernández | 18.03.2015 09:06

Dear community: I'd like to make an important announcement today. I've been presenting and demoing Liferay Cloud Services at Symposiums, events and customer visits for quite some time now, and...

Olaf Kock | 17.03.2015 09:01

One message that I have to give out in trainings doesn't fail to stun the students: When you deploy multiple hooks that override the same JSP in Liferay, you will first get undefined behavior and...

Martin Yan | 17.03.2015 00:58

Has open source software now become the preferred choice for enterprises? According to a Black Duck Software report, over half of all enterprises will utilize or contribute to open source in some...

Olaf Kock | 13.03.2015 08:17

Liferay comes with so many features that it's hard to judge when a feature is a good solution for a given problem. I'd like to shine some light onto some of these features and common misconceptions...

Marcos Castro | 08.03.2015 22:24

Welcome to my first post! As a theme developer in Liferay I start this blog with the goal of sharing all type of useful content. I want to speak about a little frequent problem with dockbar,...

James Falkner | 02.03.2015 19:56

My Documents View New Liferay Sync UI Liferay has released a beta of the new version of Liferay Sync, the popular document sharing add-on for Liferay. Download it from the Downloads page, read the...

Andrea Di Giorgi | 27.02.2015 17:33

Hi everyone In my first blog post almost one year ago, I talked about our Calendar Mobile Sync project, a free and open-source plugin which enables users to synchronize their Liferay calendars...

Jorge Ferrer | 25.02.2015 17:32

Did you like what you saw in previous milestones? You didn’t feel there was enough meat to be worth your time? Get ready for Milestone 4 which comes bundled with many improvements and new features....

Jose M. Navarro | 22.02.2015 17:51

Several months ago, I read an article talking about a new concept for me: the Hacker in Residence. Since then, I saw pretty clearly that it would be a wonderful initiative within Liferay, given...

Kamesh Sampath | 22.02.2015 11:50

Taking forward from where Ray left off with a Telnet to Liferay OSGi, I am taking this step ahead to enable SSH access to Liferay OSGi console, here is my two little reasons on why I want to do it,...

Olaf Kock | 18.02.2015 12:24

This is a repeat post - same topic as in July 2013, when I've solved exactly the same problem on Liferay 6.1. Now it's time to update the solution to Liferay 6.2. But I am ahead of myself: What...

Olaf Kock | 18.02.2015 10:50

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and...

Ray Augé | 12.02.2015 22:46

Over the past couple of years Liferay has invested a considerable amount of effort to re-engineer Liferay Portal version 7.0 with modularity as the key focus. As part of this effort we've adopted...

James Falkner | 11.02.2015 17:58

Liferay Explorers Miguel Ángel Pau & Moisés Belda Liferay Spain User Group During the Liferay 6.2 development cycle many of you participated in BugSquad and the Community Beta programs in order to...

Neil Griffin | 03.02.2015 22:47

The Liferay Faces team is focussed on developing our new 4.2.5-GA6 and 3.2.5-GA6 releases as well as our new Liferay Faces Showcase demo. But since not all projects will not have an opportunity to...

Subhasis Roy | 02.02.2015 09:06

The following document will provide the steps about installing the “Liferay 6.2 EE” on “JBoss 6.2 EAP” server. Softwares Required: - Download and unzip "JBoss6.2 EAP" - Download latest version of...

Bruno Farache | 30.01.2015 21:42

Hello, community! We would like to announce Liferay Push, our new framework for sending push notifications from Liferay Portal to your mobile apps. Push notifications is a technology that allows...

Olaf Kock | 27.01.2015 15:01

Ich bin mal wieder auf Reisen - und zwar in Wien. Und welche bessere Gelegenheit Land und Leute kennenzulernen gibt es, als ein Liferay Community Meeting (oder Radio Liferay Hörertreffen)? Hofburg,...

Olaf Kock | 20.01.2015 09:03

A short Inbetweenisode on the release of 6.2 CE GA3 with repeat guest and Community Manager James Falkner. During Devcon James promised the release for the 15. January - while I stated that this...

Esther Sanz | 19.01.2015 11:22

LA Unconference December 2014 December is always a very exciting time of the year when engineers gather in our LA office to discuss, work and have fun together. It is a time for reflection and to...

James Falkner | 15.01.2015 15:08

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA3! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start]...

Martin Yan | 13.01.2015 23:58

Congratulations, you made it to the new year. You're still here, and with a bit of luck, so is your company. Or maybe not. But it's the new year, so at least you have some fresh resolve and a...

Zeno Rocha | 13.01.2015 17:14

Originally published on Medium One of the cool things about working at Liferay is that you have the freedom to propose any crazy idea that comes to your head and there’s a high chance that they...

Jose M. Navarro | 13.01.2015 11:09

Hi Liferay Screeners! After several months of hard work and few presentations to show you the first beta of Liferay Screens, we're ready to release this second beta. This version is full of fixes...

Jorge Ferrer | 23.12.2014 22:39

It’s the end of the year season and most programmers take a few days of to spend time with family and/or friends and of course check out some new technologies. While we know there are many exciting...

Olaf Kock | 16.12.2014 21:50

The nerdiest topic so far: I'm speaking to Thomas Schweiger, german national barista champion 2010-2012. He was sponsored by our german partner Prodyna to prepare coffee during this years Devcon...

Olaf Kock | 12.12.2014 00:49

I had a short meeting with Bryan Ho, Lead Graphic Designer at Liferay - With that role it's obvious that we're bridging the audio/visual gap again: A very visual topic in an audio only podcast. But...

Olaf Kock | 11.12.2014 23:26

This is my conversation with Stian Sigvartsen, winner of the Marketplace App contest with his Social Apps Proxy (Link) and well known member of the UK Liferay usergroup, working in Devon and quite...

Jamie Sammons | 08.12.2014 19:02

The Audience Targeting app enhances the engagement experience of your portal by providing the right information in the right context to your visitors in new and exciting ways. Audience Targeting...

Olaf Kock | 04.12.2014 11:27

I'm talking with Brett Swaim, Principal Consultant at Liferay US, on application performance monitoring, horror stories and things to avoid. Brett is dealing with a lot of customers. He's one of...

Olaf Kock | 04.12.2014 11:04

Another Devcon conversation - make sure not to miss this event next year! I grabbed Chema Balsas, Software Engineer at Liferay Spain, and Emil Öberg, Consultant at Monator Technologies, a Liferay...

Olaf Kock | 04.12.2014 09:45

At Devcon, I took the opportunity to meet several people - stay tuned for several more episodes during the rest of this year. For this episode, I spoke with Zsigmond Rab. Zsigmond is Lead Engineer,...

Meera Prince | 04.12.2014 08:56

Portlet is small fragment of dynamic content in the web page. And this dynamic content may be text,HTML,xml or some other MIME format. Portlet technology implemented by JSR 168 and JSR 286...

Juan Fernández | 28.11.2014 12:32

Dear community! Based on market research and community feedback, we’ve seen that more and more companies are using location-based information to make important decisions. Also usage of...

Andrea Di Giorgi | 27.11.2014 01:19

Greetings to all! As a proud member of this community, I always wanted to show my appreciation towards Liferay, its philosophy and the great people behind it. And that's why I spent the last few...

Greg Amerson | 26.11.2014 07:44

Just a quite notice that we have pushed a new release of Liferay IDE version 2.2.1 that just pushes a few fixes for the latest major release including a nasty memory, GC bug here that would affect...

Meera Prince | 20.11.2014 13:26

When we work with liferay 6.2 portlet development some time we may get null or empty values when we access request parameters or form input values in the portlet action class. The reason is from...

Josiah Harrist | 19.11.2014 22:11

Corporate data is a very fragile and important thing. It’s the kind of thing you don’t want to break, the same way you don’t want to break a favorite vase. Or an airplane. The cleanup tends to be...

James Falkner | 19.11.2014 22:04

Wow. Just.. WOW. It's Liferay's 10th anniversary, and I've been blessed to be able to be a part of it the last several years, including this year. A big round of applause goes to you and our entire...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | 17.11.2014 20:39

Hola chic@s, Lo prometido es deuda y aquí podéis encontrar un pequeño sitio web que iré actualizando periódicamente con toda la información necesaria sobre el evento. Por el momento sólo están...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | 17.11.2014 12:45

In previous entries I’ve described how we can connect Liferay and Apache Kafka, and I’ve shown a couple of examples of how this integration could be done (you can find the first blog entry here...

Ryan Schuhler | 14.11.2014 11:20

This post is written for those of you who have not yet upgraded to 6.2 (for whatever reason) but still want to give specific content to specific users. My goal is to present some of the code and...

Jeffrey Handa | 31.10.2014 18:23

The Liferay Certification team is very happy to announce the availability of the Liferay 6.2 Certified Professional Developer exam (LRP-624). This is an update to the popular Liferay 6.1 Certified...

Olaf Kock | 31.10.2014 17:44

You probably know the basic installation instructions for Liferay Bundles: „unzip and run startup.sh“ - with this you get to a working Liferay installation in a minute. It will run with all...

Olaf Kock | 31.10.2014 08:07

You probably know the basic installation instructions for Liferay Bundles: „unzip and run startup.sh“ - with this you get to a working Liferay installation in a minute. It will run with all...

Greg Amerson | 31.10.2014 07:40

The Liferay IDE team is pleased to annouce the latest release version 2.2. Use the updatesite below to update your existing install or install for the first time....

Martin Yan | 30.10.2014 17:41

When people visit your website, does it remind them of generic cola or Coca-Cola? Is it a unique and memorable experience? This question seems to be important as we consume more billboards,...

Olaf Kock | 30.10.2014 10:17

Greetings Earthlings that come to Darmstadt for Devcon, the Unconference or LPSF Germany As last year, we'll have a community meetup. This year we'll be right outside Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof (main...

James Falkner | 29.10.2014 22:31

UPDATE: Liferay Cloud Services has a new name! See this blog post for details on Liferay Connected Services! Today Liferay Cloud Services enters a new phase of its beta program - and now invites...

Jorge Ferrer | 29.10.2014 07:58

It's been around 2 months since Milestone 1 and we are now ready for the second public deliverable of the ongoing Liferay Development: Liferay 7 Milestone 2. As usual it can be downloaded in...

Olaf Kock | 23.10.2014 21:12

You probably know the basic installation instructions for Liferay Bundles: „unzip and run startup.sh“ - with this you get to a working Liferay installation in a minute. It will run with all...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | 23.10.2014 04:08

Ayer anuncié durante una de mis charlas en el Liferay Spain Symposium 2014 que estábamos trabajando en la organización de un workshop que versará sobre el desarrollo de aplicaciones Liferay bajo la...

Bryan H Cheung | 22.10.2014 15:52

If you haven’t heard the news yet, Liferay has been named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals for the fifth year in a row, and we’ve placed second only to IBM—and well ahead...

Olaf Kock | 21.10.2014 20:35

Another first: This week's guest Máté Thurzó presents a brief 37000ft overview over Staging. Yes, this is literally 37000ft - we both were lucky to be invited to the North America Symposium 2014...

James Falkner | 20.10.2014 16:46

A community challenge for you Liferay's worldwide conferences generate quite a bit of data, and I am challenging the community: Take this data, and do something more interesting than a boring list...

Eduardo P. García | 20.10.2014 09:38

It was great to participate in the Liferay North American Symposium this year. With hundreds of Liferay users (customers, partners, community members...) and dozens of presentations, it was not...

Meera Prince | 19.10.2014 05:48

Liferay have different types of roles for user. So whenever we develop portlet application we may get need to fetch user roles. The following article will give you more about Liferay Roles ...

Zeno Rocha | 15.10.2014 18:37

Our latest official release (2.5.0) made in April introduced a lot improvements in terms of documentation and bug fixes . Since then we made public some few preview releases in June and July. ...

Richard Sezov | 14.10.2014 21:23

At Liferay's North American Symposium, I announced the immediate availability of a new website we've developed specifically for those who use Liferay and write code on its platform. We call this...