Blogs

Manuel de la Peña | 2013.08.27. 6:39

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...

Iliyan Peychev | 2013.08.15. 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...

Bruno Farache | 2013.08.05. 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,...

Manuel de la Peña | 2013.08.01. 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,...

Máté Thurzó | 2013.07.25. 11:01

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...

Sergio González | 2013.07.17. 12:33

Lately I have been working on a new feature that many users have asked for a long time and Liferay didn't support it (yet). As most of you know, friendly URLs are very important nowadays for...

Manuel de la Peña | 2013.07.09. 15:24

I love that picture! Imagine yourself any Friday, at the end of your day-work. You look at the CI server and, unluckily, it is broken. You have only three options: Resign yourself that you will be...

Ryan Schuhler | 2013.07.05. 14:30

Hello, My name is Ryan and I work at Liferay. I am currently on the web team at Liferay and have the unique opportunity to both use Liferay's software as customer and collaborate with all the...

Ruud Kluivers | 2013.07.02. 7:57

This is an adaptation of a blog I wrote for Wolters Kluwer March 2011. Everyone knows that data and information are subtly different things. Data is worthless unless it can be turned into...

Ruud Kluivers | 2013.07.01. 9:45

Twenty years ago, June 1993, Adobe introduced its Acrobat software for creating and viewing electronic documents. I was one of the ‘lucky’ IT journalists to be invited by Adobe’s PR agency to...

Milen Dyankov | 2013.06.27. 14:32

As you probably know in version 6.1 Liferay introduced the mobile device rules feature. However if you haven't followed the discussions and presentations about it, you may be under the wrong...

Mika Koivisto | 2013.06.18. 22:25

We've finally released both CE and EE versions of Liferay 6.1 GA3 and along with those releases we've also released the corresponding versions of Liferay Maven Support and Portal artifacts. The...

Olaf Kock | 2013.06.17. 8:24

I took some time to speak to Jorge Ferrer, Liferay's VP of Engineering about all things Engineering and Development in Liferay. This time I'm not starting with butchering names, but positions....

Manuel de la Peña | 2013.06.14. 10:25

Hi all! This is my third blog post about Continuous Integration best practices, and today I want to explain the benefits of being patient after sending commits for being reviewed. As developers, we...

Neil Griffin | 2013.06.03. 18:53

On June 1, 2013 Liferay released the 3rd General Availability (GA) release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.2-ga3 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.1.x) Liferay Faces 3.0.2-ga3 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.0.x)...

Manuel de la Peña | 2013.05.31. 12:08

Following with these blog posts series about good practices in Continuous Integration, I want to talk about the benefits of running tests. Practice 2: Always run the tests When a developer commits...

Manuel de la Peña | 2013.05.29. 10:13

Hi all! I'm writing this blog entry as the first post of a continuous integration blog serie, sharing our knowledge and usage of this technique. In these blog posts, I will to talk about some good...

Olaf Kock | 2013.05.21. 11:16

At this year's Jax I met Ville Ingmann, "Your Business Buddy" at Vaadin (the business card says "VP of German Operations"). With some inadvertent background noise (sorry) we talk about the history...

Ronald Sarayudej | 2013.05.19. 0:34

I would like to bring attention to a hot topic around the Liferay offices lately, and one that you should definitely consider for the websites that you are working on: behavioral analytics. I'd...

Richard Sezov | 2013.05.13. 20:42

I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of the print edition of Using Liferay Portal 6.1! For those of you on your toes (and you know who you are), it's actually been available since...

Bruno Farache | 2013.05.08. 22:46

We are pleased to announce that Sync Mobile 2.0 has been released! In addition to having incorporated several bug fixes, this version represents the integration of noteable, new features: ...

Joshua Asbury | 2013.05.01. 19:53

When I lead the eBusiness technology efforts at my former employer, Oracle and IBM assigned "Account Managers" to our business unit. I would hear from these people (there were multiple over the...

Joshua Asbury | 2013.05.01. 16:13

Over the past several years, our North American Sales and Customer Experience Management team has grown at a tremendous rate. We have team members in New York, Illinois, California, Minnesota,...

James Min | 2013.04.30. 18:33

Enterprise Portal Liferay Partners with TIBCO Software for Lower Cost Back-End Integration

Juan Hidalgo Reina | 2013.04.26. 10:52

En Liferay nos encontramos inmersos en la redefinición de algunos conceptos UX, y ello nos ha permitido comprobar de primera mano, la controversia que aún se mantiene latente, entre los lenguajes...

Juan Hidalgo Reina | 2013.04.26. 10:48

In Liferay we are engaged in redefining some UX concepts, and this has allowed us to experience at first hand, the controversy that is still latent, between the fundamental languages (image and...

Igor Beslic | 2013.04.19. 14:08

Hi all, I'll share with you our latest progress made with supporting OAuth authorized requests. I'll make example with android application since I'm familiar with it (enough to display button)....

Olaf Kock | 2013.04.18. 16:39

As a preview for AlloyUI was just released (together with the new website) I took the opportunity to have another episode about the UI layer. Luckily two members of the core team, Eduardo Lundgren...

Olaf Kock | 2013.04.08. 10:27

Not long until the Day of Liferay - I'll have 30 minutes to fill, and this is what I intend to cover: A part of my job is in presales, answering all kinds of questions about what Liferay can or...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | 2013.04.05. 9:08

These days I have been pushing all the OSGi stuff through the review process so we have already got some of the work in the master branch. Ray has written a really good blog post about using the...

Juan Hidalgo Reina | 2013.04.03. 7:32

In which way we approach the continuous improvement of UX in Liferay?. It is always under the perspective of a continuous evaluation.. This so “formative” methodology is the direct consequence of...

Greg Amerson | 2013.03.27. 7:23

Serveral weeks ago we updated the Remote IDE Connector application to version 1.0.1. This new update fixed the issues that we found with the 1.0.0 version of the Remote IDE Connector. Namely, it...

Jesse Rao | 2013.03.20. 18:42

We've added a new section to the Liferay Development Guide covering the Resources Importer:...

Igor Beslic | 2013.03.15. 12:24

Hi all, I want to share with you something that is pretty cool for me and I found it super useful. It is shared type of Liferay SDK plugin we use to generate jar entry that can be referred by your...

Vicki Lea Tsang | 2013.03.14. 22:50

We have been hard at work here at Liferay and are happy to announce the release of a second community edition of Social Office. Social Office 2.0.4 CE GA2 contains a variety of bug fixes (see...

Greg Amerson | 2013.03.14. 9:52

Today, the Liferay IDE team has released Liferay IDE 1.6.2. This release is minor release that only fixes a couple of issues found with Eclipse Juno SR compatibility. So if you are using Eclipse...

Juan Hidalgo Reina | 2013.03.13. 15:02

Defining UX is an abstraction exercise, a deep thought about all the agents touching upon the product’s value (apart of the typology of this product) by the users. Interactions, sensations, values,...

James Falkner | 2013.03.11. 20:24

The Liferay open source project relies on its community for many of the evolutionary and revolutionary ideas for features that eventually find their way into a release. Liferay strongly believes in...

James Falkner | 2013.03.08. 21:49

[EDIT: The A Day Of Liferay page has a detailed guest schedule. Tune into the webcast on April 9 by visiting the same!]. The best ideas often start with "Hey ya'll, watch this!!" or "Oh boy, this...

Neil Jin | 2013.03.05. 13:25

This one was designed by using minecraft screenshot! When I see this, I am always feel this grand brandy! Simple, strong, stable and enough space for imagination. Hope you will like it. The full...