Blogs

Juan Fernández | 8 oct. 2013 12:11

Hi community! One of the most important and remarkable improvements of the new version of Liferay Portal are the new mobile capabilities that come out of the box. We will be presenting these...

Jorge Ferrer | 3 oct. 2013 14:49

Liferay's architecture is pretty lean, but there are lots of things to learn about it. What would you be interested in learning? I'm doing a talk next week in Liferay's DevCon in Berlin about...

Eduardo P. García | 1 oct. 2013 14:58

Next week Liferay will hold the first Developer Conference (DevCon) in Berlin. Liferay experts from all around the world will meet up to share their experience and review the latest features of...

Jorge Ferrer | 25 sept. 2013 09:58

The 6.2 release is very very close. Those who have talked with the core team about it know that we have been working hard since the 6.1 release to increase the predictability of the releases and at...

James Falkner | 25 sept. 2013 03:55

You may have noticed over the weekend that Liferay released a first "Release Candidate" build named RC1. Download it here: Tomcat Bundle GlassFish Bundle JBoss Bundle Other Files Documentation...

Olaf Kock | 24 sept. 2013 14:48

About a month ago I had the opportunity to talk to Jari Järvelä and Janne Hietala from Arcusys. They both head Valamis, an E-Learning solution on Liferay that later (end-of-August) won the Liferay...

Jim Hinkey | 23 sept. 2013 19:27

Have you wanted to find a listing of the properties available to you via Liferay Portal's properties files? Have you wanted to view the property definitions in a nicer format, instead of as plain...

Sven Werlen | 22 sept. 2013 20:17

I'd like to spend some time to present a portlet that we recently published on the Marketplace: ETL process manager. I'm sure that not everyone knows what an ETL tool is and how poweful this can be...

Olaf Kock | 20 sept. 2013 08:53

You probably have heard about Liferay's DevCon that we'll have on 9.-10. October in Berlin. Here you'll have a lot of opportunities of learning about Liferay, get your opinion heard and give...

Ray Augé | 18 sept. 2013 20:20

It has finally happened. Liferay is a proud member of the OSGI Alliance So what does this mean? Well, immediately it means very little, technically. However, what it means philosophically is that...

Vernon Singleton | 7 sept. 2013 16:56

This release was about doing lots of hard work to get things that are just nice to have. Or rather, lots of hard work to get things to the point that you do not have to have them anymore, like...

Neil Griffin | 6 sept. 2013 18:09

On September 5, 2013 Liferay released the 4th General Availability (GA) release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.3-ga4 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.1.x -- including 6.1.2 CE and 6.1.30 EE) Liferay Faces...

Jeffrey Handa | 4 sept. 2013 22:54

If you’ve been around the Liferay community for any length of time you’ve probably heard some discussion about Liferay offering a certification. It’s something that we’ve wanted to do for quite a...

Glenn Saler | 4 sept. 2013 19:29

I am excited to see that the next two upcoming Liferay LIVE webinars will be based on integrating popluar open source e-commerce platforms into Liferay. September 11th will be a LIVE session over...

Ray Augé | 4 sept. 2013 17:38

Ever since the Faceted Search API came out there have been a ton of great questions about how to go about creating very specific filters. A recent one is: "find both journal-articles and only...

James Falkner | 30 août 2013 00:31

Today Liferay announced the winners of the 2013 Liferay Marketplace App Contest, and I'm particularly happy to see so many great entries and apps in the contest! The contest entries covered a wide...

Glenn Saler | 29 août 2013 14:23

I am currently attending the local Liferay Chicago User Group meeting which is being held at the Metropolitan Club on the 66th floor of the Willis Tower in downtown Chicago. This is my first user...

Greg Amerson | 29 août 2013 04:27

We here on the IDE team are pleased to announce the new release of Liferay IDE: Liferay IDE 2.0 Milestone 1. Since this is an Eclipse release all you need is to use the following update site url...

Manuel de la Peña | 27 août 2013 06:39

Hello my friends! Here I'm again after a long time without writting about CI in Liferay. If you remember my last post, it described the importance of reverting those commits that break the build as...

Jonas Yuan | 23 août 2013 16:36

Inline editing is a quick way to update content by making changes directly. CKEditor 4 ( http://ckeditor.com) comes in the form of Inline Editing, an HTML5 feature that allows users to edit pages...

James Falkner | 22 août 2013 19:29

I’m happy to announce that today, Liferay released the much anticipated Liferay Portal 6.1 CE GA3 release! DOWNLOADS: [Tomcat Bundle | GlassFish Bundle | JBoss Bundle | Maven Artifacts and Info |...

Ruud Kluivers | 21 août 2013 10:10

We are drowning in a sea of email messages. Don't get me wrong I like email and can't do without. Email is great, it's quick, cheap, conveniently low threshold. Apparently it's a little bit to...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | 20 août 2013 20:57

This year I have been able to do the awesome JCrete conference. First of all I would to thanks Liferay and Jorge for letting me get a few days off and financing my trip. The conference is organized...

Jesse Rao | 19 août 2013 21:12

We just published a new chapter in the Liferay 6.1 Development Guide on Service Builder! In this chapter, we discuss a number of ways Service Builder can help you save development time on Liferay...

Ryan Schuhler | 16 août 2013 22:29

There is a pressing need for websites to respond to the ever-changing technology which is used to visit them. As mobile devices become more powerful and more prevalent, more and more people surf...

Ryan Schuhler | 16 août 2013 18:49

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 | 15 août 2013 13:20

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 | 14 août 2013 18:48

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 | 11 août 2013 22:15

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 | 10 août 2013 16:38

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 | 7 août 2013 20:47

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 | 7 août 2013 14:32

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 | 7 août 2013 11:08

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 | 6 août 2013 13:09

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 | 5 août 2013 12:22

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 | 2 août 2013 19:51

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 | 2 août 2013 14:16

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 | 1 août 2013 20:51

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 | 1 août 2013 11:31

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 | 1 août 2013 10:24

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,...