Blogs

James Falkner | 29-okt-2014 22:31

UPDATE: Liferay Cloud Services has a new name! See this blog post for details on Liferay Connected Services! Today Liferay Cloud Services enters a new phase of its beta program - and now invites...

Jorge Ferrer | 29-okt-2014 7:58

It's been around 2 months since Milestone 1 and we are now ready for the second public deliverable of the ongoing Liferay Development: Liferay 7 Milestone 2. As usual it can be downloaded in...

Olaf Kock | 23-okt-2014 21:12

You probably know the basic installation instructions for Liferay Bundles: „unzip and run startup.sh“ - with this you get to a working Liferay installation in a minute. It will run with all...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | 23-okt-2014 4:08

Ayer anuncié durante una de mis charlas en el Liferay Spain Symposium 2014 que estábamos trabajando en la organización de un workshop que versará sobre el desarrollo de aplicaciones Liferay bajo la...

Bryan H Cheung | 22-okt-2014 15:52

If you haven’t heard the news yet, Liferay has been named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals for the fifth year in a row, and we’ve placed second only to IBM—and well ahead...

Olaf Kock | 21-okt-2014 20:35

Another first: This week's guest Máté Thurzó presents a brief 37000ft overview over Staging. Yes, this is literally 37000ft - we both were lucky to be invited to the North America Symposium 2014...

James Falkner | 20-okt-2014 16:46

A community challenge for you Liferay's worldwide conferences generate quite a bit of data, and I am challenging the community: Take this data, and do something more interesting than a boring list...

Eduardo P. García | 20-okt-2014 9:38

It was great to participate in the Liferay North American Symposium this year. With hundreds of Liferay users (customers, partners, community members...) and dozens of presentations, it was not...

Meera Prince | 19-okt-2014 5:48

Liferay have different types of roles for user. So whenever we develop portlet application we may get need to fetch user roles. The following article will give you more about Liferay Roles ...

Zeno Rocha | 15-okt-2014 18:37

Our latest official release (2.5.0) made in April introduced a lot improvements in terms of documentation and bug fixes . Since then we made public some few preview releases in June and July. ...

Richard Sezov | 14-okt-2014 21:23

At Liferay's North American Symposium, I announced the immediate availability of a new website we've developed specifically for those who use Liferay and write code on its platform. We call this...

Olaf Kock | 13-okt-2014 20:16

You probably know the basic installation instructions for Liferay Bundles: „unzip and run startup.sh“ - with this you get to a working Liferay installation in a minute. While this is great for a...

Sven Werlen | 10-okt-2014 1:49

During last Liferay North America symposium in Boston, I had the opportunity to attend to Máté's interesting presentation (Best Practices for Using Staging in Liferay 6.2). I have always been...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | 8-okt-2014 11:32

On last entry I made a quick overview over the proposed solution for the "problem" of building an analytics platform within the Liferay platform. Along this entry I will go deeper into the log data...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | 7-okt-2014 13:00

Yesterday I was talking at the Liferay North America symposium here in Boston about how you can get more value of all the data you already (even if you are not aware you already own it). It has...

Bruno Farache | 6-okt-2014 20:45

Sync Beta 3.0 is out! We are very close to release Sync 3.0 and need your feedback! We have made a complete UI revamp since the last version, take a look at the screenshots bellow: ...

Jan Eerdekens | 5-okt-2014 18:49

Intro A lot of developers will probably know this feeling: you've just returned from a conference and seen lots of exciting new technologies and now you can't wait to try them out! For me one such...

David H Nebinger | 2-okt-2014 19:33

The Vaadin 7 Control Panel is a custom control panel designed to manage the shared Vaadin environment in Liferay. What is the shared Vaadin environment? It is one of two modes1 for creating Vaadin...

Ken Dong | 2-okt-2014 14:40

Throughout history, knowledge and the ability to apply that knowledge to practical use has been of highest value to any organization. As one of the leading trainers on the Liferay Support Team, I...

James Falkner | 2-okt-2014 7:00

At this year's Spain Symposium and North America Symposium (which begins in about 294,682 seconds from now), I'm going to be holding a session on 21 Ridiculously Simple Ways to Contribute to the...

Eduardo P. García | 29-sep-2014 10:15

It’s less than a week left until Liferay North America Symposium (NAS), the first of a series of events where we’ll have the chance to first-hand explain to our users what we’ve been working on...

Neil Griffin | 27-sep-2014 1:39

On September 26, 2014 Liferay released the 2nd Milestone of Liferay Faces 4.2.0: Liferay Faces 4.2.0-m2 JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 Release Notes All New Showcase The Liferay Faces Showcase has is...

Ken Dong | 24-sep-2014 23:47

Connection is one of the most important ways to reach your customer. It creates comfort and ultimately trust. I’ve observed that there are generally three types of people who connect well: the...

Martin Yan | 24-sep-2014 16:28

Recently, Apple announced the arrival of the Apple Watch, their latest product in the wearable tech market. This is big news because, well, it's Apple, but also because it had been several years...

James Falkner | 22-sep-2014 16:00

This blog is part of a series of entries documenting how we are using iBeacons and Liferay to better engage our audiences at events throughout the year. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Update: Check out...

Nate Cavanaugh | 17-sep-2014 14:54

Since my last blog post, I have gotten quite a few emails and questions about what the future of front end engineering looks like now that Yahoo has ended new development on YUI. What I'd like to...

Vicki Lea Tsang | 11-sep-2014 22:30

Our most recent update to Social Office EE for Liferay Portal 6.2 was uploaded to Liferay Marketplace today. Social Office 3.1 EE provides several improvements over version 3.0 EE, released earlier...

Martin Yan | 10-sep-2014 17:36

You've got a good idea. In fact, it's brilliant. The market is currently lacking XYZ, and you've got just the right product or service that is going to be the first or best to address it. So,...

Matti Tahvonen | 2-sep-2014 13:46

As you might know Liferay comes bundled with Vaadin. Now that Vaadin 7.3 is out as of today, it is perfect time to update your Vaadin portlet. Vaadin 7.3 is the largest release since Vaadin 7 in...

Jorge Ferrer | 29-aug-2014 21:44

The word is out in Twitter, we have released the first development milestone release of Liferay 7. This is a call for really adventurous developers to try it out and give us your feedback. Here are...

Nate Cavanaugh | 29-aug-2014 21:34

As many of you may have read, Yahoo is immediately stopping development on the YUI library. This decision, while it will have a significant impact, is not news to us. Given our close relationship...

Matti Tahvonen | 26-aug-2014 7:51

We were very happy to have received the Liferay Marketplace award for the best Free Opensource portlet for 2014 . This was a huge thing for us not only because Vaadin.com itself uses the Tori forum...

Olaf Kock | 26-aug-2014 6:15

This article accompanies the dev.life session "Ridiculously simple plugins" hosted today (26. Aug, 16:00 CEST, 14:00 UTC) by me. The session is broadcasted on youtube and recording will be...

Ronald Sarayudej | 26-aug-2014 1:45

Life consists of all kinds of experiences. Some experiences are common, and we can go through them every day. Having a tasty meal. Sitting in traffic. Chatting with friends. Watching a good movie....

James Falkner | 25-aug-2014 17:52

Today Liferay announced the winners of the 2014 Liferay Marketplace App Contest! This year, we were super excited to see what our community could dream up, and you did not disappoint. The review...

Martin Yan | 19-aug-2014 23:47

The customer is always right. If you've been around the American marketplace long enough, you should be familiar with the phrase. It's the idea upon which the best restaurants and companies look to...

Olaf Kock | 19-aug-2014 15:51

Radio Liferay is back with a repeat guest, James Falkner, Liferay's Community Manager. Like last year, symposium season is about to start (even though we already had some events earlier this...

James Falkner | 14-aug-2014 15:08

Liferay hold many events throughout the year (10+ this year alone), featuring keynotes, workshops, expert speakers, onsite and offsite events, and multiple venues around the world. The data...

Olaf Kock | 14-aug-2014 8:41

\o/ Radio Liferay is back. A while ago I talked with Juan Fernandez and Ivica Čardić about an exciting project they're collaborating on: Liferay Cloud Services. "What's this?" you ask? Well, good...

Josiah Harrist | 13-aug-2014 21:00

“If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?” -Charlie Brooker, The Guardian Daniel Kaluuya and Jessica Brown Findlay in Channel 4’s Black...

James Min | 12-aug-2014 23:50

Here's a sneak peek at Liferay Screens Beta in the Xcode environment. Liferay Screens are basically mobile widgets that simplify development of mobile apps with Liferay as the backend. More info...

Peter Mesotten | 11-aug-2014 7:01

This article is the second and last in a series of 2 posts on how personalization can be achieved in a portal project. In this post I'll explain how to combine user-specific and shared portlet...

Jeffrey Handa | 8-aug-2014 15:29

This weekend you may notice a couple of small changes to your Liferay.com sign-in experience and I wanted to give you a little background on why we’re making those changes. As we have been...

Olaf Kock | 8-aug-2014 8:32

It's public - Registration for DevCon 2014 (Wed-Thu, 5.-6. Nov) is open. And we're looking for your participation to make it an even bigger success. This year we're going to Darmstadt, just south...

Neil Griffin | 5-aug-2014 13:18

Today's JSF JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a Java EE standard technology that enjoys wide support with Java EE application servers including JBoss AS/WildFly, Oracle WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere. In...

Olaf Kock | 5-aug-2014 8:36

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and...

James Falkner | 28-jul-2014 19:06

Over the weekend you may have have noticed our community blogs page got a makeover! There are several new additions and changes to the page which we hope will make your liferay.com blogging...

Bradley Wood | 24-jul-2014 20:52

Ever wanted to explicitly define what page to display on the current pagination content from a url password? This code should aim you in the right direction. Logic: -Get url variable ("page")...

Neil Griffin | 21-jul-2014 20:19

Liferay Faces Showcase The Liferay Faces team has been hard at work on the new Liferay Faces Showcase which demonstrates the new JSF components we are developing. Many of the components utilize...

Olaf Kock | 21-jul-2014 11:17

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and...

Olaf Kock | 21-jul-2014 11:08

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and...

Juan Gonzalez | 19-jul-2014 9:02

Hi again! This is the second (and last) part of my blog series for using existing Bootstrap themes into Liferay 6.2. In my previous blog post I talked about using LESS files, and how to, by simply...

Olaf Kock | 16-jul-2014 16:04

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and...

James Falkner | 15-jul-2014 20:22

I'm not sure if I've said it enough -- our community is awesome! Each of us comes from different geographic places, cultural backgrounds, and Liferay experiences and we bring that collective story...

Cody Hoag | 15-jul-2014 15:59

Many of us have experienced it, you go to deploy a new application into your portal instance and see the dreaded deployment error messages. What do you do? Is the error message helpful? How can I...

Juan Gonzalez | 11-jul-2014 14:49

Yes, it's true bootstrap give us a lot of improvements for creating themes. And is also true that since Liferay 6.2 we can take advantage of all this useful tools for developing your own themes in...

Greg Amerson | 10-jul-2014 3:08

A new release of Liferay IDE has been made available today, version 2.1.1. You can update or install the new release here as usual: http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/latest/stable/ Or go over...

Zeno Rocha | 9-jul-2014 0:33

Seems like yesterday when I decided to move from this huge company based in Rio to this not-so-well-known company based in LA. That was not an easy decision, but I’m glad I made it. Now, two years...

James Falkner | 1-jul-2014 18:49

This blog is part of a series of entries documenting how we are using iBeacons and Liferay to better engage our audiences at events throughout the year. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Update: Check out...

Meera Prince | 26-jun-2014 9:32

Introduction: Liferay have very good content management system we can design and publish content in the web page very easy. Along with that it’s also have structures and templates feature so...