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Jeffrey Handa | 2011.11.01. 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 | 2011.10.30. 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 | 2011.10.30. 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...

Thiago Leão Moreira | 2011.10.26. 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 | 2011.10.25. 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 | 2011.10.24. 8:42

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 | 2011.10.21. 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 | 2011.10.20. 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 | 2011.10.18. 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 | 2011.10.15. 2:46

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 | 2011.10.13. 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 | 2011.10.12. 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 | 2011.10.10. 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 | 2011.10.10. 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 | 2011.10.06. 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 | 2011.10.06. 9:32

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 | 2011.10.05. 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 | 2011.10.02. 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 | 2011.10.01. 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 | 2011.09.29. 2:56

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 | 2011.09.27. 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 | 2011.09.26. 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 | 2011.09.25. 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 | 2011.09.19. 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 | 2011.09.15. 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 | 2011.09.14. 3:28

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 | 2011.09.08. 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...

Ray Augé | 2011.09.03. 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 | 2011.09.02. 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 | 2011.09.01. 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 | 2011.08.30. 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 | 2011.08.30. 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 | 2011.08.26. 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 | 2011.08.26. 2:58

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 | 2011.08.25. 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 | 2011.08.25. 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 | 2011.08.24. 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 | 2011.08.23. 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 | 2011.08.22. 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 | 2011.08.22. 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...