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Richard Sezov | Nov 21, 2007 8:33 PM

Touch typists (like me) don't like to take their hands off the home row of the keyboard if they can at all help it. If I'm in the middle of doing something requiring intense concentration (such as...

Minhchau Dang | Nov 21, 2007 1:31 AM

In Eclipse, everything is a plugin, including the IDE itself. So, if there's something which bothers you, all you need to do is replace the plugin with something which works in a way more...

James Min | Nov 21, 2007 12:03 AM

A lot of people I run into at trainings and on consulting gigs ask this question: "How do I access Liferay via Web Services?" Well, there are 2 basic things you need: 1) A way to get the stubs...

Nate Cavanaugh | Nov 20, 2007 2:00 AM

All I have to say is wow. Pure, unadulterated WOW. I have been waiting for the iPod of books to reach us, and I truly thought it would be either Sony's Librie, or more likely Apple. But it turns...

Neil Griffin | Nov 19, 2007 7:52 PM

In recent days, some of the engineers at Liferay reported some amazing performance gains with Liferay's Ant build system by using Linux instead of Windows. Well this peaked my curiosity to say the...

Jerry Niu | Nov 19, 2007 6:37 PM

November 2007 Public Training was held in Reston, VA.

Richard Sezov | Nov 19, 2007 5:56 PM

One of the goals I set for myself with regard to the Liferay documentation was to show people how to set up Liferay for development (either core, extension or plugins) in both of the leading open...

Ray Augé | Nov 19, 2007 5:43 AM

Need a good diff tool outside of something monolithic like your IDE? Ever wanted to compare one project folder to another beyond their respective repositories? Well, look no further than "Meld"....

James Min | Nov 18, 2007 5:30 PM

My next home project will be to set up Linux Media Center Edition (MCE) which runs on top of Kubuntu. [Also a wiki here.] I've been reading up on this alternative to Windows Media...

Jerry Niu | Nov 15, 2007 11:43 PM

October 2007 Public Training was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Here are some pictures from that training.

Jerry Niu | Nov 15, 2007 7:38 PM

October 2007 Public Training was held in North Sydney, Australia. Here's some pictures of the building the training was held in. Here are some of the attendees.

Brett Swaim | Nov 13, 2007 10:12 PM

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Push mail Sync'd Calendars Sync'd Todos Sync'd Mail Sync'd Contacts I love that when somebody sends me an email, Exchange 2003 pushes said mail right to...

Brett Swaim | Nov 13, 2007 2:29 PM

So last night as I sat in my hotel room in Ohio I was reading a thread about Android, Google's open handset OS. I decided to download the SDK and give it a crack. The first things I noticed were...

Ray Augé | Nov 12, 2007 9:49 PM

Hey All, Gonna start my first post with a big thanks to everyone who worked on getting Liferay Blogging to a very usable point. Then, I have a question for everyone out there... Snippet or Full...

Jorge Ferrer | Nov 11, 2007 11:40 AM

Last week Google announced OpenSocial with an impressive set of partners including Orkut (as expected), MySpace, iLike, Flixter, Oracle, .... There were companies that had their own social network,...

Alexander Chow | Nov 11, 2007 2:01 AM

If you are running Liferay with Tomcat, you have most likely come across this annoying message upon startup: INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance... This is...

Mark Wong | Nov 10, 2007 3:55 PM

So we've been operational for a little over two months now and this is how we do it over here at the Liferay Dalian Office. First we work hard: Then we play hard: Want to join us? ...

Nate Cavanaugh | Nov 10, 2007 3:04 AM

So, in an attempt to add some stuff to my blog that I think people might enjoy, I am going to write an entry every Friday, called the Friday Funkfest. What is the Friday Funkfest, exactly? Well,...

Nate Cavanaugh | Nov 10, 2007 1:34 AM

One of the most controversial things we've done for version 4.3 was to switch all of the icons to using PNG icons. This wouldn't be so bad, as IE can render PNGs with index transparency just fine....

Richard Sezov | Nov 9, 2007 9:09 PM

A couple of days ago I was humming along working happily when suddenly, doink! The power went out. It was a beautiful bright sunny day, and so I might not have noticed right away except that my new...