Blogs

Shuyang Zhou | Dec 22, 2010 6:55 AM

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 | Dec 21, 2010 12:08 AM

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 | Dec 16, 2010 11:21 PM

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....

Jonas Yuan | Dec 14, 2010 1:37 AM

Liferay 5.2 EE and 6 improved the capabilities of LDAP integration in many areas (refer to blogs posts LDAP Enhancements and Keeping user password secure with LDAP integration): synchronize user...

James Falkner | Dec 10, 2010 7:24 PM

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 | Dec 10, 2010 6:59 PM

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 | Dec 9, 2010 8:03 PM

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 | Dec 8, 2010 11:50 PM

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...

Jonas Yuan | Dec 8, 2010 1:57 AM

In Liferay portal, you can use your own language. Multilingual organizations get out-of-the-box support for up to 36 languages. Users can toggle among different language settings with just one...

Olaf Kock | Dec 6, 2010 2:55 PM

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 | Dec 1, 2010 10:07 PM

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 | Dec 1, 2010 5:46 PM

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...

Alexander Chow | Dec 1, 2010 11:49 AM

In October, Apple released for OS X their latest update of Java. (There was this whole hoopla about whether or not Java would cease to exist on OS X, but then Apple announced that it would be...

James Falkner | Nov 30, 2010 8:38 PM

Despite the US Holiday, we have lots of items in this week's roundup! Finalist and Proteon hosted the fist ever Dutch Liferay Community Event on November 23 and it was a huge success. Go check out...

Bryan H Cheung | Nov 29, 2010 12:49 PM

As some of you may know, Liferay decided earlier this year to make a strategic investment in growing the European market. To that end, Joseph Shum, our former Alliance Manager for North America,...

Olaf Kock | Nov 28, 2010 12:41 PM

One of the first things I did with Liferay (years back) was the development of a custom theme. Support for this in the Plugins SDK works really smooth and theme development is well documented. One...

Bavithra Rajendran | Nov 26, 2010 5:39 AM

Desktop Gadgets are very popular and I wanted to write a simple Liferay gadget for windows 7 and at last came up with a desktop gadget that has frequently used links of Liferay. I call this as...

Jonas Yuan | Nov 25, 2010 9:29 PM

Liferay 6 provided integration with Google Maps JavaScript API V2. More details, AUI tags are used to integrate Google Maps JavaScript API V2. The Google Maps API lets us embed Google Maps in the...

James Falkner | Nov 24, 2010 9:21 PM

Open source projects and products suffer from a unique problem when it comes to managing bug reports. The open nature of the community means you'll get many more excellent bugs filed as compared...

Igor Spasić | Nov 24, 2010 8:08 PM

Remember: For JSP tags with dynamic-attributes, be careful to use proper case of defined attribute names; especially if scriptlets are used as attributes values. Look at following two usages of...