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Ronald Sarayudej | 2011.02.18. 1:17

Careers at Total Region: France Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Total operates as the fifth largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas company in the world and is also a world-class...

James Falkner | 2011.02.17. 17:01

Yesterday we wrapped up the first sprint of the Liferay Community's 100 Paper Cuts program, and at at 80% solution rate, I'm calling it a success! A big round of applause goes to the volunteers of...

Ray Augé | 2011.02.16. 20:52

All secure RSS feeds now transparently support BASIC Authentication. The behavior is such that when you're logged in, the feeds will simply work as expected if you open them directly in the...

Ronald Sarayudej | 2011.02.15. 0:23

University of Eastern Finland Region: Finland Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The University of Eastern Finland stands as one of the largest universities in Finland. It seeks to be among the top three...

Alexander Chow | 2011.02.11. 22:20

One of the nice things about working for Liferay is the flexibility I have in where I can work. Though originally from LA, my wife and I currently live in the UK and I work from home in the UK. ...

James Falkner | 2011.02.11. 14:42

Time for another installment of Community Roundup! I enjoy taking a tour of the Liferay Community in these blog posts, I hope you find them useful. Lots of items of interest in the last 2 weeks,...

Greg Amerson | 2011.02.10. 22:48

Hello all, Its been awhile since the last Liferay IDE release as I've been busy on some tooling for our EE customers, however, along the way I've been adding new features and improvements to IDE as...

Samuel Kong | 2011.02.10. 9:33

Liferay Portal provides a WebDAV URL to all documents in the Document Library so that you can access the documents from your computer's desktop. While this is a great feature, it can be a little...

James Falkner | 2011.02.09. 21:24

Liferay East Coast Symposium 2011 Liferay's third annual East Coast Symposium (ECS) will be held in beautiful Leesburg, Virginia on May 10-11, 2011. ECS 2011 will be a great opportunity for...

Joshua Asbury | 2011.02.07. 17:44

While performing a demonstration last week, I added the Mail portlet into a user's private pages and set it up using my Gmail account. Everything went fine during the demo, but when I tried to...

Richard Sezov | 2011.02.04. 20:56

Well, we're marching right along on our way to completion. Manning has just updated the Liferay in Action MEAP with the next-to-last chapter, on Ext plugins. With this chapter, you learn all about...

James Falkner | 2011.02.03. 22:31

Make a great video and win an Amazon Kindle! Liferay is calling on YOU, the Liferay Community, to showcase your world with Liferay. Participate in Liferay's first ever community video contest, make...

Ray Augé | 2011.02.02. 19:05

This example demonstrates several advanced features of Liferay's Web Content Management provided when taking full advantage of Liferay's Web Content Template processing engine. It'll demonstrate...

Ronald Sarayudej | 2011.01.31. 22:13

Asurion Region: US Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Asurion is technology protection services leader that offers quality, next-day device replacement along with user content and software protection....

Alexander Chow | 2011.01.31. 20:55

Liferay's engineering team has been doing a lot of work on the Document Library for version 6.1. But in one of the recent weekly meetings, a discussion sparked off about the possibility of having...

Igor Spasić | 2011.01.28. 11:18

... and not a joke:) Application servers wiki document collects informations about appservers Liferay portal can be deployed to. More important are the children pages, with various tips, tweaks,...

James Falkner | 2011.01.25. 21:27

Howdy folks, time for another community roundup.. It's been an action-packed couple of weeks at Liferay. The first month of 2011 is almost over, and we're chugging along nicely. Lots of items to...

Igor Spasić | 2011.01.19. 11:41

Let's read the tags content in following XML snippet: <tag>foo&amp;boo</tag> with the single call to (supposing everything is initialized correctly up to this point): xmlStreamReader.getText() We...

Ronald Sarayudej | 2011.01.18. 21:35

School Specialty Region: US Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 EE School Specialty is a educational solutions provider focused on providing creative and comprehensive tools that will help students...

Mika Koivisto | 2011.01.17. 22:23

This is a new cool feature I worked on with Brian and it’s coming on 6.1 as well as 6.0 EE SP2 and 5.2 EE SP6. With this feature you can add new struts actions to portal from a hook plugin and you...

Ray Augé | 2011.01.17. 19:39

Last week I wrote about a hook we wrote for Expandos using MongoDB. I just wanted to let you know that it just finished review and is ready for consumption. It's been renamed to mongodb-hook in...

Igor Spasić | 2011.01.14. 9:12

I wrote wiki article about how to configure JAAS that uses OpenLDAP to auth users. Article also announce new feature i.e. portal property: portal.jaas.auth.type that allows JAAS to authenticate...

Jeffrey Handa | 2011.01.14. 3:29

Hey Everyone, This last year has been an exciting time to be involved in the Liferay Training Program and I wanted to let you know what we've been up to and to give you a preview of some of the...

James Falkner | 2011.01.13. 20:29

Hi all, welcome to another installment of Community Roundup! The last one was 2 weeks ago (been busy with a few other initiatives, see below), so I've got a lot to share. Once the community...

James Falkner | 2011.01.11. 21:05

Thanks to all of you, Liferay has an active and growing community that has made a lot of contributions in 2010. However, with that growth comes inevitable growing pains! One of the areas in which...

Ray Augé | 2011.01.09. 4:06

Update: The expando-mongodb-hook plugin is now committed to SVN and available from trunk. Over the past few months the hype around NoSQL type databases had really been heating up the tech news and...

Dennis Ju | 2011.01.05. 0:05

A growing number of websites are adopting OAuth to authorize third-party applications to interact with a user's resources. For example, back on August 31, 2010, Twitter flipped the kill-switch on...

Sergio González | 2011.01.04. 17:12

I want to make a quick update regarding the latest thing we've been working on: new way of publishing content with the Asset Publisher. The 'classic' way of publishing content with the Asset...

James Falkner | 2010.12.30. 20:02

Greetings from the next-to-last day of 2010. Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season! Liferay is working hard to bring you another great year of technology, innovation, and fun. I for...

Richard Sezov | 2010.12.27. 17:45

The Liferay in Action MEAP update came out on Christmas Eve, so I wanted to make sure that I let everyone knew about it in case you, like me, have been offline for the past few days. So Merry...

Shuyang Zhou | 2010.12.22. 6:55

A lot of Liferay TagLibs use including JSP files to present their content. Is there any difference between TagLib used JSPs and the normal ones? Functionally, they are the same thing. But when we...

James Falkner | 2010.12.21. 0:08

Happy Holidays from Liferay and our community! Hope everyone has a safe and fun-filled holiday season. Liferay had an exciting and fun-filled 2010. Partner program expansion, new Liferay offices...

Sten Martinez | 2010.12.16. 23:21

Often we need to display data in a legacy schema. The usual way of doing this in any other application is to set up a new datasource, optionally set up an ORM, and display the data yourself....

James Falkner | 2010.12.10. 19:24

Finally returned from Liferay's annual employee retreat! It was a fun-filled week and it's great to put a face with all the names I interact with on a daily basis. I hope to see many of our...

Brian Chan | 2010.12.10. 18:59

We decided to relax a bit Wednesday night and headed out to a Lakers game. After all, we are in LA, and we love basketball here. We had some pretty good seats. Here's a pic of Kobe laying it up....

Brian Chan | 2010.12.09. 20:03

We flew almost the whole company out to Los Angeles for our annual retreat. It's been a great few weeks of brainstorming and fellowship. If you're a Liferay user, community member, or a client -...

Barrie Selack | 2010.12.08. 23:50

Many people have asked, "How can I embed a portlet in web content". It's actually quite simple, once you know how. So I'll walk you through it. It;s done via a runtime-portlet tag. The actual...

Olaf Kock | 2010.12.06. 14:55

If you are living in a country where the ASCII character set is often almost sufficient but you need to ensure that you can handle UTF-8 well - how do you ensure that? You might not know a language...

Bryan H Cheung | 2010.12.01. 22:07

Liferay had the chance to be a platinum sponsor at the Open Source Conference 2010, organized by Red Hat and Accenture. At almost 450 attendees, it was the Benelux region's largest-ever OSS focused...

Michael Young | 2010.12.01. 17:46

Recently I needed to set up SSL in my development environment in order to debug an issue. I needed to make sure that Tomcat could serve SSL content properly As an Http client, the JVM could accept...