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Nate Cavanaugh | 31/12/2007 02:58

It's been exactly 10 years since I got my very first computer, which was on Christmas of '97, and was a $400 dollar IBM clone, running Windows 95. I didn't even know how to change my wallpaper, or...

Bruno Farache | 30/12/2007 07:00

The Document Library portlet will provide document conversions in Liferay 4.4, here's a screenshot: This requires OpenOffice v2.0.3 or higher running as a service, locally or remotely. Here are the...

Minhchau Dang | 26/12/2007 18:59

After reading through Jorge's blog post on the guidelines for Liferay contributions, and after following the link to the style guidelines on the Liferay wiki, I put together a configuration file...

Alexander Chow | 19/12/2007 08:59

A few weeks ago I blogged about Tomcat's JNI native library. Recently, I have been at a client site trying to squeeze every bit of speed out of the servers while running on a deployment with...

Ray Augé | 17/12/2007 20:11

Ever needed to do file content searches? NO! Then you probably aren't a programmer... j/k I frequently have to search lots of code for some pattern. You'd think this would be a trivial task, but...

Scott Lee | 17/12/2007 18:24

So ive been tweaking with the LDAP stuff recently to make it easier for people to do LDAP integration in Liferay. We've added some default LDAP server settings (feel free to send me corrections or...

Richard Sezov | 14/12/2007 19:22

Quietly and without much fanfare, we have released the first document in our new Liferay Documentation Project. This is because it's a rather small document, but it fills a need to have some...

Nate Cavanaugh | 14/12/2007 18:08

So yes, there has been a long delay from the last time I blogged, but I thought I would come back with something that I have actually been asked a lot about recently, which is CSS Inheritance. I'm...

Jorge Ferrer | 14/12/2007 02:31

One of the toughest parts of contributing to Liferay is that we are very strict with the coding and design style. We do this because we believe that keeping a very high level of consistency is what...

Jonathan Neal | 13/12/2007 23:52

That's right, Liferay, the world's leading enterprise open source portal framework with Fortune 500 clients in the U.S. and Europe, has developed a new super easy tool that helps you write your own...

Richard Sezov | 11/12/2007 21:59

This is a list of things I learned at the Liferay retreat. You should not give Nerf guns to developers with pent up energy from sitting around coding all the time. Pandemonium will ensue. Many...

Jonathan Neal | 07/12/2007 00:29

In the U.S they use AIM, in Europe they use MSN, but the true and rightful King of the Instant Messaging world is still, without a doubt, ICQ. ICQ (a cleverly pronounced oronym of "I Seek You") was...

Jerry Niu | 06/12/2007 08:18

I had the pleasure of training in Santo Domingo.

Jorge Ferrer | 06/12/2007 06:09

Determining the best strategy for doing releases is one of the hardest challenges of developing a software product. We get lot's of feedback related to it, although it's usually in the form of...

Michael Young | 06/12/2007 00:34

We had a long conversation at the office regarding release process, versioning, etc, that we'll be presenting at the LA retreat this year. But in a nutshell the goals were to: - increase timeliness...

Jonathan Neal | 05/12/2007 19:57

Richard Sezov | 05/12/2007 17:56

Okay, I couldn't resist posting this. We had our first snow in this area today (Southern New Jersey, not far from Philadelphia, PA), and it was the triple whammy of: Christmas coming Snow Getting...

Alexander Chow | 05/12/2007 07:32

In the last few weeks I have spent quite some time trying to debug some weird problems on deployments of Liferay. Here are a few tricks that I have come across that have proven to be pretty...

Ray Augé | 05/12/2007 02:56

Good news all you Linux Liferay users/developers! With the most recent release of Adobe Flash Player (Version: 9,0,115,0), the new multi-file uploader available in the portal now works in Linux....

Brian Chan | 04/12/2007 22:52

4.3.5 is the latest stable and recommended production release from Liferay. Release Notes: http://support.liferay.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10014&styleName=Html&version=10260 SVN Tag:...