Blogs

Bryan H Cheung | 13/01/2009 19:46

When Brian Chan first started working on Liferay in 2000, one of the immediate goals was to use Liferay to build a public website for his church. Of course, as a portal-based website, it would have...

Nate Cavanaugh | 13/01/2009 04:17

It's hard to contain my excitement about what I am going to share. Brian Chan (along with Eduardo Lundgren) have just recently committed a change that I (along with any other person who has to deal...

Michael Young | 12/01/2009 19:06

Back in Nov 2008 we migrated SVN servers for committers. We pushed our commits to the Sourceforge SVN server on a regular basis, and that worked well for some time. Recently we discovered that...

Ray Augé | 10/01/2009 02:45

So I finally got around to making the Velocity improvements I'd had planned on doing for the last several months. We completely removed the Velocity singleton usage and replaced it with the...

Eduardo Lundgren | 06/01/2009 00:21

Only 5% of the end-user response time is spent fetching the HTML document. This result holds true for almost all web sites. The most part of websites spend less than 20% of the total response time...

Bryan H Cheung | 05/01/2009 18:51

I had a chance to reflect on 2008 on my way to Tokyo two weeks ago and was really humbled by realizing how many amazing opportunities Liferay has had this year. 2008 Highlights: Continued...

Minhchau Dang | 31/12/2008 03:18

A "Gotcha!" situation came up today when I attempted to add a portlet developed in the plugins environment to the Control Panel (which is a new feature being developed for 5.2.0 that you can read...

Nate Cavanaugh | 29/12/2008 02:34

There are a ton of amazingly creative people here at Liferay, and I'm always stunned with the stuff that people create. Last night I was doing a ton of coding and some inspiration struck to make...

Eduardo Lundgren | 21/12/2008 07:47

Each more we feel the need of becoming more and more web 2.0, it sounds like a physics law to the "guys" that are trying to survivor arround the amazing applications that surround us across the...

Minhchau Dang | 19/12/2008 21:44

There are times when I don't want to deal with the start up time of an integrated development environment and opt to use a fast-loading text editor instead. By making this trade-off, I wind up...

Brian Chan | 19/12/2008 07:08

Here are some pictures from our third annual company retreat in Los Angeles. It was really fun hanging out with everyone. And what do we do when we get together? Play an international sport...

Jian Cao | 18/12/2008 01:44

This feature is a very simple and useful in AJAX and JSON like things. It is a way to get pure response code as you set. 1. TestResourcePortle.java public class TestResourcePortlet implements...

Jorge Ferrer | 17/12/2008 05:57

If you've been working with Liferay for a while this is probably an improvement that you will be excited about. If you are new to Liferay then this is a change you'll be even more excited about....

Jorge Ferrer | 12/12/2008 06:56

It's been a very long time since my last post but I promise I'll make up for it with a series of posts about the latest features we've been working on for the next releases of Liferay Portal. But...

Jian Cao | 08/12/2008 13:29

This is a simple series of articles to indicate the new features of Jsr 286 1.Public Render Paramter Here we simulate a Sender and a Receiver to show this portlet.xml(Define the public render...

Thiago Leão Moreira | 05/12/2008 19:05

Hi there! We are glad to announce for all those of you Maven adicted like me , that now Liferay has its artifacts public in a Maven 2 repository! The community request was listened and answered. ...

Michelle Hoshi | 03/12/2008 19:53

One of the cool features of Liferay Social Office is its use of Office Integration. When collaborating with others it is often a huge hassle to create a document and then email it back and forth...

Bryan H Cheung | 02/12/2008 02:15

This week I'm pleased to announce the first beta release of Liferay Social Office, Liferay's new social collaboration software. While Liferay Portal has had social networking, web 2.0, and...

Michael Young | 22/11/2008 07:53

One of the benefits of having our own dedicated SVN servers is that we have been able to set up a Fisheye server at http://svn.liferay.com. We tried to set up Fisheye against our Sourceforge.net...

Brian Chan | 21/11/2008 03:37

The number of committers to our SVN repository and the sheer amount of activity have both skyrocketed this past year. Sun now has over 25 active contributors and Liferay, Inc. has been hiring key...