Blogs

Iliyan Peychev | 4 nov. 2011 22:28

You might be already aware of that, but for the others - Liferay 6.1 will have WYSIWYG editors for Wiki Creole and BBCode. You may use the first one in order to create Wiki pages and the second one...

Richard Sezov | 4 nov. 2011 16:14

Writing is something I've been doing for a long time. I mean, a long time--since I was something like 12 years old. To give you a piece of perspective on this (without giving away my age), I was 12...

Jeffrey Handa | 1 nov. 2011 23:36

Many of you are probably aware that Liferay version 6.0 supports several scripting languages in a variety of contexts including portlet plugins, Kaleo workflows, and the Script Console in the...

Olaf Kock | 30 oct. 2011 18:20

Liferay for your ears: Episode 9 of Radio Liferay is another premier: This marks the first recording with more than one interviewee, as well as the first non-Liferay Employees. I used the...

Olaf Kock | 30 oct. 2011 17:53

Liferay for your ears: Episode 8 is a premiere in this program: Brian Chan, Liferay's founder and Chief Software Architect, is the first that I didn't record in a conversation: Instead this is a...

Jonas Yuan | 27 oct. 2011 18:15

In brief, OpenSearch allows publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation. Federated search is a simultaneous search of multiple online databases or web...

Thiago Leão Moreira | 26 oct. 2011 21:47

I'm on site these last days and one of my tasks was to execute some load testing and monitor a Liferay instance hosted in a network accessed only via SSH port. No other port except 22 and 80 was...

Olaf Kock | 25 oct. 2011 20:16

Liferay for your ears: Episode 7 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Julio Camarero, Software Engineer in Liferay's spanish office. As a certified Legend he's well known in the forums here,...

Olaf Kock | 24 oct. 2011 08:42

Episode 6 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Aaron Delani, UI Software Engineer at Liferay. This is another episode recorded while I was in L.A for the annual Westcoast symposium. Thanks...

Ray Augé | 21 oct. 2011 14:28

Liferay has long had the ability to embed portlets in themes. This is convenient for implementors to get highly functional design into the look and feel of a site. In my years at Liferay I've seen...

James Falkner | 20 oct. 2011 16:39

In addition to the annual "Partner of the Year" award, this year Liferay recognized its partners for their community achievements, awarding the Community Excellence Award. We consider partners a...

Ray Augé | 18 oct. 2011 18:33

Spring's dependency injection framework is the picture of ubiquity in the java world. As such it aims to drive developers toward declarative, component driven design and lose coupling. But, it is...

James Falkner | 15 oct. 2011 02:46

Liferay is proud to announce the Liferay 6.1 CE Beta release! The Liferay product and engineering teams, in close concert with our awesome community, have spent many months getting the 6.1 release...

Joshua Asbury | 13 oct. 2011 17:37

I'm excited to announce that Liferay has been invited to speak at next week's Gartner Symposium ITXPO at the Walt Disney World Dolphin. I will be making the trip to Orlando to deliver a...

Ray Augé | 12 oct. 2011 13:45

I've taken to using github.com's gist service quite alot recently and so I wanted to just spread the word that there are some handy nuggets appearing there. Here's the url...

Olaf Kock | 10 oct. 2011 23:07

Episode 5 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Cynthia Wilburn, Project Manager at Liferay, the engineering group's professional nag (short: Catherder) and single wringable neck for release...

James Falkner | 10 oct. 2011 16:27

Update: The Meetup will take place at Berliner 109 on Monday, October 17, at 18:00! This is a couple of minutes walk east, from the Symposium venue (Sheraton Offenbach Hotel). If you are attending...

Joshua Asbury | 6 oct. 2011 13:16

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If...

Igor Spasić | 6 oct. 2011 09:32

Imagine serveral git branches and sub-braches, each with several commits. Although most git UI clients can display a nice branch tree view, it might be not so easy to get an overview at once: some...

James Falkner | 5 oct. 2011 19:52

As you look back on the Liferay Community, you can see many innovative contributions and outstanding achievements by our wider community of enthusiasts, users, customers, partners, and employees. ...

Greg Amerson | 2 oct. 2011 15:53

Hi all, We just released version 1.4 of Liferay IDE. Help > Check for updates... is the fastest way if you already have it installed. If not here is the URL update site:...

Olaf Kock | 1 oct. 2011 12:35

Hey there, I'll be in London on Tue, 11. Oct. and would like to test if there's some interest in getting together for a Liferay Community Meeting - no formal stuff, just chatting in a pub or...

Justin Choi | 29 sept. 2011 02:56

This is my first blog entry on Liferay. I was waiting for something newsworthy since as a QA engineer, our view of Liferay can be tunnel vision. Occasionally, we get to go out: attending WCS is...

James Falkner | 27 sept. 2011 14:08

It's that six dot one bump, make you put yo hands up - Make you put yo hands up, put yo, put yo hands up Welcome to another installment of Community Roundup! Your source for a digest of the...

Brett Swaim | 26 sept. 2011 20:25

I just wanted to say thanks to everybody that attended my talks. I really enjoyed giving them and hope you all got something from them that was helpful! I'll be posting my files/powerpoints (or...

Olaf Kock | 25 sept. 2011 18:05

Episode 4 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Raymond Augé, Sr. Software Architect at Liferay. We recorded this episode right after Liferay's Westcoast Symposium in the L.A. office....

Jorge Ferrer | 19 sept. 2011 14:35

Hola a todos, Ya estoy por aquí de nuevo y como no podía ser de otra manera con buenos propósitos de escribir entradas mucho más a menudo. Temas de los que hablar no me van a faltar en los próximos...

Olaf Kock | 15 sept. 2011 19:56

Episode 3 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Nate Cavanaugh, Liferay's Director for UI Engineering about AlloyUI, the switch from jQuery We spoke about these topics - and probably more:...

Michael C. Han | 14 sept. 2011 03:28

It's a somewhat rare occassion that I get to fuss around with code these days. This time, it happens to be in assistance of one of our Global Services consultants for his West Coast Symposium...

Olaf Kock | 8 sept. 2011 20:41

If you are planning to come to the Westcoast Symposium, use your chance and present your favourite feature or project: You can still submit a Lightning Talk for the WCS! The rules are simple: You...

Jonas Yuan | 8 sept. 2011 00:16

As you have been noticed, the version 6.1 adds a lot of CMS (Document Library) features. The following is a list of these features, not the full list. Capability to manage different document types:...

Ray Augé | 3 sept. 2011 18:05

Over the past several months I've been working on integrating an OSGi framework into Liferay Portal. The reasons for doing so are varied but include solutions to app server/servlet container...

Neil Griffin | 2 sept. 2011 22:59

Introduction I recently had the opportunity to launch an Amazon EC2 instance and setup Liferay & MySQL. There were a couple of hurdles that I had to overcome, so I thought I would share the...

Olaf Kock | 1 sept. 2011 16:47

Episode 2 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Rich Sezov, Liferay's Knowledge Manager, author of the upcoming book "Liferay in Action" and Alter Ego of "Rich Editor" for those of you who...

Juan Fernández | 30 août 2011 18:58

Hi all! In a recent project I had to add these portlets ("My Workflow Tasks" and "My Submissions") to a normal user page. By default they are shown in the control panel, but depending on your...

James Falkner | 30 août 2011 14:41

By popular demand, below is a technical description and source code of the new Community Activity Map that I posted a couple of weeks ago. Overview I started on this back in December 2010 when we...

Olaf Kock | 26 août 2011 12:32

Let's have another community meeting - this time I'll be able to speak the local language: 5. September, 19:00 in Hamburg, "Abaton Kneipe", Grindelhof, close to the university. Please comment here...

Ray Augé | 26 août 2011 02:58

To continue a recent string of theme related posts, I'm going to add another on the recently added feature allowing addition of advanced input controls and behaviors to theme settings. Themes are...

James Min | 25 août 2011 22:29

I'll be running a workshop at Liferay WCS on Backend Integrations in September, and also presenting at the first Jenkins User Conference (JUC) in October where Liferay is a sponsor. Liferay WCS...

Bryan H Cheung | 25 août 2011 11:11

Paul Hinz forwarded us an old whitepaper and presentation from IBM back in 2009 that sought to debunk the "myth of free open source portals." The main idea was that open source portals might save...

Jeffrey Handa | 24 août 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 août 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 août 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 août 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 août 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 août 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 août 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 août 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 août 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 août 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 août 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 août 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 août 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 août 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 août 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 août 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 | 4 août 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 | 1 août 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 juil. 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 juil. 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...