Blogs

Ryan Schuhler | Aug 16, 2013 6:49 PM

The new trend in web design is long-scrolling pages. It allows space for cool animation and flowing content while cutting down the need for changing pages and waiting for things to load each time....

Iliyan Peychev | Aug 15, 2013 1:20 PM

AlloyUI is the engine which drives the UI of all Liferay products. Since it was created in 2009, it has grown really fast and we are very close to the point where we will release ver. 2.0. We will...

Glenn Saler | Aug 14, 2013 6:48 PM

Our certified service partner, Isos Technology, has released a new blog series titled 'Practical Liferay Series'. The series focuses on tips and insights for deploying and running Liferay on a...

Jorge Ferrer | Aug 11, 2013 10:15 PM

In my previous post I convered the reasons why we decided to streamline the administration UIs of Liferay and in the process review the usability and design of the Control Panel. In that post I...

Neil Griffin | Aug 10, 2013 4:38 PM

When working with Maven profiles, sometimes you need to activate a profile when multiple conditions are true. Although the <activation> element in pom.xml lets you specify more than one condition,...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Aug 7, 2013 8:47 PM

I guess all of you already know what JRebel is so I guess it doesn't deserve an exhaustive introduction. In a few words, JRebel is a JVM agent which allows you to reload your class definitions...

Ray Augé | Aug 7, 2013 2:32 PM

Every year a project grows more complex the difficulties of managing backward compatibility become more complex. The strain imposed on APIs as time passes is tremendous. Developers want APIs to...

Olaf Kock | Aug 7, 2013 11:08 AM

This week's guest is Jack Rider, from the mediterrean shore in Benidorm. He is a real Liferay veteran, having started with version 3.6, and has initiated quite a few very nice and well-usable...

Zeno Rocha | Aug 6, 2013 1:09 PM

We're very happy to announce several talks focused on the AlloyUI project at Liferay official events. If you're coming to any of those conferences below, enjoy that time to get in touch with our...

Bruno Farache | Aug 5, 2013 12:22 PM

We just released a new update for Sync Android and iOS! The most important improvements are: Browse files while you are offline Move folders and files Performance boost While you are online,...

James Falkner | Aug 2, 2013 7:51 PM

We need your help! The next release of Liferay Portal - version 6.2 - has been under development for over a year, and many of you have been instrumental in getting new features in, fixing old bugs...

Neil Griffin | Aug 2, 2013 2:16 PM

I was recently installed a ".vmdk" image into VMware Fusion on a MacBook Pro with multiple processor cores. The operating system in the image was Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3. After...

Adam Brandizzi | Aug 1, 2013 8:51 PM

I'm working in an awesome component to be shipped from Liferay 6.2 onwards. Some of the features needed to implement it are rather reusable so they were implemented in the Liferay Porta itself. One...

Jorge Ferrer | Aug 1, 2013 11:31 AM

Hey guys, The 6.2 release is getting closer and closer, so after quite a few months without writing a blog entry I'd like to get back starting a new series I'm calling "New in 6.2". In this blog...

Manuel de la Peña | Aug 1, 2013 10:24 AM

In this blog post I want to talk about developers mentality, about how they (we) create software that never fails, and brights more than the sun, and is faster than a jet plane... or not? No,...

Máté Thurzó | Jul 25, 2013 11:01 AM

Staging is one of the unique fetaures of the Liferay portal, serving customers to be able to handle their content across the portal. The feature has been around for a while, and was always a...

Olaf Kock | Jul 25, 2013 9:15 AM

This week's guest is Neil Griffin, Liferay's resident JSF Wizard, Lead Engineer for Liferay Faces and representative for Liferay on the Portlet-Spec 3.0 group (JSR 362). Here are our topics:...

Adam Brandizzi | Jul 23, 2013 8:08 PM

Since AlloyUI became a base component for Liferay, various amazing tools became available for the Liferay developer. One of these are the JavaScript components such as Liferay.Store. This component...

Ryan Schuhler | Jul 19, 2013 8:28 PM

Recently I found myself searching through the internet for how to best add social share buttons to a website. The documentation that exists is helpful, however I decided it might still be useful to...

Olaf Kock | Jul 18, 2013 5:12 PM

You might have heard about this year's change in the european symposium: We'll replace the single symposium with a Liferay Portal Solutions Forum, a rather business-oriented program as well as a...