Blogs

Brian Chan | 4 mars 2010 08:14

Happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6 Preview. You can download the files from SourceForge here. The RC will be released in a few weeks with the GA to follow. Plugins for 6 will be...

Richard Sezov | 1 mars 2010 19:20

Ever since I first started working for Liferay, I had always planned to release two books: the Liferay Portal Administrator's Guide, and the Liferay Portal Developer's Guide. They were designed to...

Alexander Chow | 1 mars 2010 19:08

After writing up about adding pingbacks to blogs, I realised that there could be an additional area where pingbacks would be quite useful -- message boards. So, with a few changes in code, 6.0...

Bryan H Cheung | 26 févr. 2010 03:46

I would like to announce that starting with version 6, Liferay Portal will be made available under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL) v2.1. The short history of commercial open source software...

Ronald Sarayudej | 25 févr. 2010 23:14

Swisher International Group Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.2 Swisher International Group is the world's largest cigar company as measured by units sold and is America’s largest cigar...

Ronald Sarayudej | 25 févr. 2010 22:43

CyberStream Technologies Region: Greece Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 CyberStream was founded in 2000, aiming to provide professional services in the IT and networking sector in Greece and...

Ronald Sarayudej | 25 févr. 2010 22:25

Travel Trade Gazette Region: UK + Ireland TTG features news, destination reports and careers advice for the travel and tourism industries. Sectors covered include travel agents, tour operators,...

Ronald Sarayudej | 25 févr. 2010 22:01

Ippon Technologies Region: France Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Ippon Technologies is a specialized consulting and development company on distributed architectures such as J2EE and SOA. Their...

Ronald Sarayudej | 25 févr. 2010 21:52

Societe Generale Region: France Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Societe Generale offers worldwide financial services that include account monitoring, cash centralization, and payment optimization.

Jonas Yuan | 25 févr. 2010 16:55

What’s knowledge base or knowledge management (KM)? The portlet Knowledge Base allows authoring articles and organize them in a hierarchy of navigable categories. It leverages Web Content articles,...

Joshua Asbury | 25 févr. 2010 14:29

Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com, wrote a guest post for TechCrunch entitled "The Facebook Imperative." In it, Mark discusses the needs for increased collaboration for the enterprise and...

Bryan H Cheung | 25 févr. 2010 00:01

According to the H, Oracle has quietly discontinued OpenSSO Express, the community version of OpenSSO previously made available by Sun. It'd be sensationalistic to make any wide-sweeping...

Alexander Chow | 24 févr. 2010 13:10

One of the nice, collaborative features in blogs these days is the ability to leave comments. But what if you, on your blog, are trying to comment about something somebody else blogged about? ...

Jonas Yuan | 23 févr. 2010 00:14

In summary, the portal (6.0 or above) supports six different types of plugins out-of-the-box. They are portlets, themes, layout templates, webs, hooks, and ext. Portlets: web applications that run...

Greg Amerson | 19 févr. 2010 22:47

Hello everyone, Today ends my first week at Liferay so I guess I should introduce myself officially. I joined Liferay as a software engineer and will lead the effort for official IDE tooling from...

Joshua Asbury | 18 févr. 2010 12:35

I believe in the power of technology to bring people together. Although our society lives in more physical isolation than 20 years ago, I think that we are seeing people remove those barriers...

Ronald Sarayudej | 16 févr. 2010 23:40

Just Keep Moving Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal EE 4.4 By the makers of Tylenol, the Keep Moving Program helps you create a wellness experience that focuses on exercise, nutrition, and health,...

Ronald Sarayudej | 16 févr. 2010 23:10

SMU Cox School of Business Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Since 1920, the SMU Cox School of Business has equipped students with the skills, knowledge and experience they need to succeed in...

Ronald Sarayudej | 16 févr. 2010 22:59

Dankook University Region: Korea Version: Liferay Portal 5.1 Dankook University is the first private university ever established after Korea gained independence in 1947. The progressive spirit...

Ronald Sarayudej | 16 févr. 2010 22:39

Evimed Online GmbH Region: Germany Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Evimed Online GmbH offers Internet-based information services and products that enable physicians to access oncology treatment...

Ronald Sarayudej | 16 févr. 2010 22:23

Hola, ¿qué tal? Region: Spain Version: Liferay Portal 5.1 Hola, ¿qué tal? is the Spanish course 2.0 which adapts to any student’s needs offering freedom of timetables, place and learning rhythm...

Ronald Sarayudej | 16 févr. 2010 22:03

SpeakEnergy Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 SpeakEnergy is a company focused on improving the energy efficiency of individuals by involving them in online communities. SpeakEnergy works...

Jonas Yuan | 16 févr. 2010 19:11

What’s knowledge base or knowledge management (KM)? The portlet Knowledge Base allows authoring articles and organize them in a hierarchy of navigable categories. It leverages Web Content articles,...

Bavithra Rajendran | 16 févr. 2010 07:35

This is my first blog and I am extremely happy that I created Liferay wallpapers and posting as my first blog. I took lot of patience in completing this and as a result I guess it came good . I am...

Julio Camarero | 14 févr. 2010 15:55

Hi everyone, After introducing our goals and objectives for Liferay 6 regarding accessibility, I just wanted to highlight some of the improvements we have done lately. There have been a lot of...

Jeffrey Young | 13 févr. 2010 00:54

As the 2010 Winter Olympics are just a few hours away I started to think about how much computers and information technology play a pivotal role in sports today. It seems every major sport (MLB,...

Paul Hinz | 12 févr. 2010 18:14

Liferay Portal 6 (code name: Bunyan) The next version of Liferay Portal internally code named Bunyan, will be released as Liferay Portal 6. Previously the team had considered naming the version...

Joshua Asbury | 11 févr. 2010 18:17

A couple of weeks ago, Paul Hinz, Liferay's Chief Marketing Officer, asked me for my thoughts about what the future of portals holds. I provided a long, drawn-out response which, when boiled down...

Jonas Yuan | 11 févr. 2010 14:11

FCKeditor has been around for more than six years. Since 2003 it has built a strong user community becoming the most used editor in the market, accumulating more than 3,5 million downloads. On...

Bryan H Cheung | 10 févr. 2010 19:41

Hello to everyone in the Liferay community and a belated Happy New Year. I trust January has been filled with new opportunities and renewed energy for all of us after the holiday break. I've gotten...

Ronald Sarayudej | 10 févr. 2010 18:02

Reboot.FCC.gov Region: USA Reboot.FCC.gov is the Federal Communication Commission's website for discussion on how to transform the FCC into a model of excellence in government. The FCC is beginning...

Juan Fernández | 10 févr. 2010 16:31

Liferay's objects are being encapsulated into assets (documents, web contents, blog entries are being encapsulated in the new asset concept) and it allows the portal objects to be treated in a...

Juan Fernández | 10 févr. 2010 09:23

Hi guys! For the last few weeks I've been working in a new WYSIWYG editor for Liferay 6. It's the new version of FCKEditor, called CKEditor. Which are the improvements of the new version? The main...

Kristoffer Onias | 10 févr. 2010 01:21

Introduction I'm using my very first entry to explain NTLM integration with Liferay 5.2. While trying to figure this out, I noticed that there was a lack of public information on the actual...

Juan Fernández | 9 févr. 2010 15:47

Hi guys: this week I have been working in the Asset Importer, a portlet that reads a file (odt for the moment) and converts it into a web content so that you can publish your documents an your...

Julio Camarero | 8 févr. 2010 22:57

Hi there! In liferay we have always been concerned about accessibility. Giving everyone the same opportunities despite of her visual, auditory, physical or cognitive disability is one of our main...

Jonas Yuan | 8 févr. 2010 18:50

Federated search is the simultaneous search of multiple online databases or web resources, and it is an emerging feature of automated, web-based library and information retrieval systems. Here...

Jonas Yuan | 6 févr. 2010 08:45

Folksonomies are a user-driven approach to organizing content via tags, cooperative classification and communication through shared metadata. The portal implements folksonomies via tags. A tag may...

Ronald Sarayudej | 5 févr. 2010 19:00

South Australian Certificate of Education Region: Australia Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.2 The SACE Board of South Australia is an independent statutory authority established under the SACE Board...

Ronald Sarayudej | 5 févr. 2010 18:51

Tune Money Region: Malaysia Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.2 Tune Money is a company that provides financial services. Offering a wide selection of personalised services, Tune Money also protects...

James Min | 4 févr. 2010 22:51

Just a quick post on a couple of misunderstandings I've seen out in the field lately... Simply setting up Liferay Portal to be load balanced does *not* mean it is clustered. First, let's be...

Dave Truong | 4 févr. 2010 07:48

So BChan should have never given me a server. Since making my wedding site, I've been exploring different things about websites outside the scope of portlet development. This includes: Setting up...

Neil Griffin | 3 févr. 2010 10:43

I'm pleased to announce the new JSF 2.0 Complete Reference book by Ed Burns and Chris Schalk, published by McGraw-Hill. During the planning stages, Ed asked me to be a contributing author and help...

Paul Hinz | 3 févr. 2010 06:18

This week's webinar was a kickoff of the Liferay Webinar Series and a demand for changes in our industry to solve issues impacting our user community. In that webinar, we pointed out several...

Juan Fernández | 2 févr. 2010 10:34

Hi, guys! It's already been a month since I started working in the Liferay team, in the spanish office and I wanted to write a presentation post. When I was part of the community I sometimes...

Bryan H Cheung | 27 janv. 2010 16:00

Robert Schware from the Global Learning Portal recently shared with us about a study tour of three different educational organizations to see how the Madrid School System's portal software has made...

Shuyang Zhou | 22 janv. 2010 08:49

ThreadLocal is not the "Silver Bullet" for concurrent issues, actually it is not encouraged to be used in some concurrent best practice. But sometime, it is really needed or can significantly...

Dave Truong | 21 janv. 2010 08:56

Hey guys, So I promised I would put up a link and so here it is: www.winnieanddavid.com Here were a few things I learned... 1) Weddings are really expensive... I should create a donate to my...

Amos Fong | 18 janv. 2010 20:52

There has been a lot of work trying to minimize the use of the ext environment to keep your site more maintainable and easier to customize. Here are some tips that has helped me keep my ext small...

Jonas Yuan | 7 janv. 2010 16:46

In brief, you could integrate Alfresco in the portal in following approaches. · Web services, referring to the portlet Alfresco Content; · RESTful services - OpenSearch, referring...

Jonas Yuan | 31 déc. 2009 13:34

The topic “sharing content across organizations” has been discussed for a while. You can refer to forums entries like Ideas for sharing content across organizations Proposal: sharing tags and...

Ronald Sarayudej | 30 déc. 2009 23:28

T-Mobile CZ Region: Czech Republic Version: Liferay Portal 5.1 Within the scope of its business activities to which it is authorised, T-Mobile Czech Republic establishes and operates a public...

Ronald Sarayudej | 30 déc. 2009 20:24

Murcia Cerca Region: Spain Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Murcia Cerca is a social portal for Murcia's expatriates around the world. It has different content and communities depending on the user...

Dave Truong | 24 déc. 2009 04:01

It's been awhile since I last posted a blog. It's not like I had a bunch of avid readers; in fact I would be surprised if I even had one. But nevertheless a lot has happened which has kept me...

Shuyang Zhou | 22 déc. 2009 09:11

IO is very important in almost all types of applications, because IO operations can cause bottleneck very easily. In Java's world, there are two groups of IO classes, Traditional IO(TIO), New...

Shuyang Zhou | 17 déc. 2009 02:50

String in Java is special, because its immutable particularity. Immutable String is the cornerstone of Java Security and thread-safety, without it Java is brittle. But immutable comes with price,...

Alexander Chow | 16 déc. 2009 10:54

A few months ago Minhchau created a migration tool to move document library files from using one hook to another (e.g., JCRHook to AdvancedFileSystemHook). He showed the code for it and wrote...

Mika Koivisto | 15 déc. 2009 11:16

Starting to recover from jetlag after a two week trip Los Angeles and Liferay retreat. One of the things we finally made some progress during the developer retreat is providing official maven...

Ronald Sarayudej | 12 déc. 2009 00:40

Go Big Event Inc. Region: Canada Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Go Big Event is an online registration service company based in Edmonton, Alberta. They offer simple and convenient event registration...

Ronald Sarayudej | 11 déc. 2009 23:47

Digital-h Region: Spain Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Digital-h is the hub of all things digital media in the city of L'Hospitalet, including Radio L'Hospitalet, L'Hospitalet City Journal, and...