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Brian Chan | Nov 4, 2009 11:23 PM

You've heard of the Digg effect, but the same is true of the "Google" effect. We're celebrating Sesame Street's 40th anniversary today. Go to www.google.com and you'll see a nice reference to Big...

Ray Augé | Oct 30, 2009 1:24 PM

I know that some people are suggesting using the setenv.sh script to control JVM settings for tomcat. Notably I see adding JMX configurations this way, among other things. Be careful what you add...

James Min | Oct 27, 2009 4:56 AM

Probably one of the top 5 questions I get asked on consulting gigs is, "How do I connect to an external database?" The wiki was a bit out of date, so I made a new one for Liferay 5.2. Wiki:...

Samuel Kong | Oct 23, 2009 8:05 AM

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you need to deploy a piece of JavaScript (such as Google Analytics) to every single page in the portal? Up to now, the most common way to...

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 22, 2009 5:43 PM

Highbury Group Region: UK Formed in 2000 in the United Kingdom, Highbury Group provides management resources to Europe's largest aircraft manufacturer. The company has personel suporting Emirates...

Ray Augé | Oct 20, 2009 5:26 PM

I've recently been reading Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Any Hunt, Pragmatic Bookshelf, and it has really got me thinking... (Yes, that was pretty lame. HaHaHa!) Actually...

Ray Augé | Oct 19, 2009 7:18 PM

Have you ever had a super freakish problem with the Liferay CSS Not doing what you expected? I mean I love Liferay's new Minifier, it's fast and efficient. But, it's no fun when you have problems....

Alexander Chow | Oct 16, 2009 4:04 PM

When I was at the European Symposium, I was surprised how many people said to me "Gosh I wish Liferay could do ABC," in which I responded, "But it has -- ever since version X.YZ!" But I guess part...

Ray Augé | Oct 9, 2009 3:10 PM

I've seen a tone of requests lately for how to add Expando Tables and Columns programatically during some startup proceedure. The biggest problem seems to be with PermissionChecker. The problem...

Bruno Farache | Oct 3, 2009 8:37 PM

Suppose that you, a portlet developer, need to develop a FAQ portlet that displays questions and answers and that allows certain users to create/update/delete FAQ entries, i.e., a simple CRUD...

Neil Griffin | Oct 2, 2009 3:44 AM

As part of my work on JSR 314 (JSF 2.0) I've been reviewing the specification, Javadocs, and tag library docs for accuracy. One way I do this is to make examples that test drive what the...

Neil Griffin | Oct 2, 2009 2:30 AM

As part of my work on JSR 314 (JSF 2.0) I've been reviewing the specification, Javadocs, and tag library docs for accuracy. One way I do this is to make examples that test drive what the...

Neil Griffin | Oct 1, 2009 9:56 PM

On a recent trip to Colorado I had the opportunity to go panning for gold in a stream and take a tour of a gold mine. There may be a lot of gold in the West Portal (shown below), but rest assured...

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 1, 2009 7:42 PM

European Schoolnet Region: Belgium European Schoolnet (EUN) is a network of 31 Ministries of Education in Europe and beyond. EUN was created more than 10 years ago with the aim to bring about...

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 1, 2009 7:12 PM

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Jonas Yuan | Sep 29, 2009 4:53 PM

FCKEditor (2.6.5 or CKEditor 3.x) is the only editor to bring you a "zero installation" spell check as you type solution. Nothing in your servers is needed for it. It's based on the quality spell...

Bryan H Cheung | Sep 26, 2009 1:34 AM

We had a phenomenal turn out for this year's Liferay West Coast Symposium, our annual community and customer conference. Our North America marketing and events team, led by Cecilia Lam, put...

Bryan H Cheung | Sep 26, 2009 12:22 AM

I want to take a moment to announce that we are going to start referring to the open source builds of Liferay Portal as "Community Edition." We originally introduced Liferay Portal Enterprise...

Joshua Asbury | Sep 18, 2009 11:34 AM

Earlier this week, I did a demonstration of Liferay for a potential customer. I think it went well, and for the most part, I was able to show them all of the capabilities of the product in which...

Jorge Ferrer | Sep 17, 2009 3:15 PM

Mallorca is one of those places in the world that you have to visit. Like most places next to the the sea it provides a sense of calm that is very appreciated when you come from the busy Madrid. I...