Blogs

Ronald Sarayudej | Mar 15, 2010 11:06 PM

Symphogen Region: Denmark Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Symphogen is the leader in developing recombinant polyclonal antibodies (rpAb), a new class of biopharmaceuticals for the treatment or...

Ronald Sarayudej | Mar 15, 2010 10:27 PM

Orange Dominicana Region: Dominican Republic Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Orange is the fifth largest telecom operator in the world, with over 189 million mobile phone and internet customers as of...

Nate Cavanaugh | Mar 15, 2010 6:02 AM

Getting Started Welcome to our first post in talking about Alloy. I'm going to jump right in, but the only piece of info I want to cover beforehand, and you'll see me do it in every post, is the...

Nate Cavanaugh | Mar 15, 2010 5:14 AM

Hi all, there has been quite a long delay since the last blog post. For those of you who weren't able to check out the webinar, the reasons behind the long silence in my blog postings has been due...

Dave Truong | Mar 13, 2010 8:08 AM

This month marks the fifth year, I've been with this company. A quick warning: I'll be sharing some personal thoughts so if you are looking for something more technical check out Ed Shin's post...

Carolina Moreno | Mar 10, 2010 4:43 PM

Hi, In this first entry I would like, before going on, to send my greetings to the Liferay community and my gratitude for the work they do. Their work allows the product to keep improving in every...

Edward Shin | Mar 10, 2010 6:14 AM

Update: Please see the official documentation here: www.liferay.com/documentation/liferay-portal/6.0/development/-/ai/ext-plugins Now that we have EXT Plugins, the million dollar question is what...

Edward Shin | Mar 10, 2010 2:42 AM

Update: Please see the official documentation here: www.liferay.com/documentation/liferay-portal/6.0/development/-/ai/ext-plugins The first step that we need to take is to "Check Out" or download...

sriram krishnan | Mar 9, 2010 9:11 AM

This widget is an extention of the existing search and invite widget developed by Neel Haldar.The enhancement allows you to suggest a friend to some of your existing friends..It also allows you to...

Edward Shin | Mar 9, 2010 2:58 AM

Like many great ideas in Liferay, EXT Plugins came from our community. This idea is credited to the company IBA CZ. Rather than have a monolithic structure (EXT environment) that modifies the...

Edward Shin | Mar 9, 2010 2:24 AM

Update October 6, 2010: Now that we've officially packaged the bundles for Liferay 6 in both our CE and EE releases, you can now download the bundles from liferay.com instead of building them from...

Charles May | Mar 5, 2010 1:10 AM

When I was thinking about joining Liferay back in 2005, I remember Brian Chan sharing his vision for the company. Instead of trying to create great software to make a lot of money for ourselves,...

Charles May | Mar 4, 2010 11:30 PM

Dear Liferay Employees, It's been a little over a month since my wife and I moved down to the LA area to take a more active part in Liferay Foundation. First off, let me just say a big "Thanks!" to...

Ronald Sarayudej | Mar 4, 2010 6:36 PM

Teach DC Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Teach DC is the official application site of the District of Columbia Public Schools for all teachers, counselors, library media specialists,...

Ronald Sarayudej | Mar 4, 2010 6:06 PM

Piper Glen Golf Club Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Piper Glen Golf Club is one of the premier public golf facilities in Illinois. Their course has yet again been awarded the highly...

Brian Chan | Mar 4, 2010 8:14 AM

Happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6 Preview. You can download the files from SourceForge here. The RC will be released in a few weeks with the GA to follow. Plugins for 6 will be...

Richard Sezov | Mar 1, 2010 7:20 PM

Ever since I first started working for Liferay, I had always planned to release two books: the Liferay Portal Administrator's Guide, and the Liferay Portal Developer's Guide. They were designed to...

Alexander Chow | Mar 1, 2010 7:08 PM

After writing up about adding pingbacks to blogs, I realised that there could be an additional area where pingbacks would be quite useful -- message boards. So, with a few changes in code, 6.0...

Bryan H Cheung | Feb 26, 2010 3:46 AM

I would like to announce that starting with version 6, Liferay Portal will be made available under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL) v2.1. The short history of commercial open source software...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 25, 2010 11:14 PM

Swisher International Group Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.2 Swisher International Group is the world's largest cigar company as measured by units sold and is America’s largest cigar...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 25, 2010 10:43 PM

CyberStream Technologies Region: Greece Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 CyberStream was founded in 2000, aiming to provide professional services in the IT and networking sector in Greece and...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 25, 2010 10:25 PM

Travel Trade Gazette Region: UK + Ireland TTG features news, destination reports and careers advice for the travel and tourism industries. Sectors covered include travel agents, tour operators,...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 25, 2010 10:01 PM

Ippon Technologies Region: France Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Ippon Technologies is a specialized consulting and development company on distributed architectures such as J2EE and SOA. Their...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 25, 2010 9:52 PM

Societe Generale Region: France Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Societe Generale offers worldwide financial services that include account monitoring, cash centralization, and payment optimization.

Jonas Yuan | Feb 25, 2010 4:55 PM

What’s knowledge base or knowledge management (KM)? The portlet Knowledge Base allows authoring articles and organize them in a hierarchy of navigable categories. It leverages Web Content articles,...

Joshua Asbury | Feb 25, 2010 2:29 PM

Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com, wrote a guest post for TechCrunch entitled "The Facebook Imperative." In it, Mark discusses the needs for increased collaboration for the enterprise and...

Bryan H Cheung | Feb 25, 2010 12:01 AM

According to the H, Oracle has quietly discontinued OpenSSO Express, the community version of OpenSSO previously made available by Sun. It'd be sensationalistic to make any wide-sweeping...

Alexander Chow | Feb 24, 2010 1:10 PM

One of the nice, collaborative features in blogs these days is the ability to leave comments. But what if you, on your blog, are trying to comment about something somebody else blogged about? ...

Jonas Yuan | Feb 23, 2010 12:14 AM

In summary, the portal (6.0 or above) supports six different types of plugins out-of-the-box. They are portlets, themes, layout templates, webs, hooks, and ext. Portlets: web applications that run...

Greg Amerson | Feb 19, 2010 10:47 PM

Hello everyone, Today ends my first week at Liferay so I guess I should introduce myself officially. I joined Liferay as a software engineer and will lead the effort for official IDE tooling from...

Joshua Asbury | Feb 18, 2010 12:35 PM

I believe in the power of technology to bring people together. Although our society lives in more physical isolation than 20 years ago, I think that we are seeing people remove those barriers...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 16, 2010 11:40 PM

Just Keep Moving Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal EE 4.4 By the makers of Tylenol, the Keep Moving Program helps you create a wellness experience that focuses on exercise, nutrition, and health,...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 16, 2010 11:10 PM

SMU Cox School of Business Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Since 1920, the SMU Cox School of Business has equipped students with the skills, knowledge and experience they need to succeed in...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 16, 2010 10:59 PM

Dankook University Region: Korea Version: Liferay Portal 5.1 Dankook University is the first private university ever established after Korea gained independence in 1947. The progressive spirit...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 16, 2010 10:39 PM

Evimed Online GmbH Region: Germany Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Evimed Online GmbH offers Internet-based information services and products that enable physicians to access oncology treatment...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 16, 2010 10:23 PM

Hola, ¿qué tal? Region: Spain Version: Liferay Portal 5.1 Hola, ¿qué tal? is the Spanish course 2.0 which adapts to any student’s needs offering freedom of timetables, place and learning rhythm...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 16, 2010 10:03 PM

SpeakEnergy Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 SpeakEnergy is a company focused on improving the energy efficiency of individuals by involving them in online communities. SpeakEnergy works...

Jonas Yuan | Feb 16, 2010 7:11 PM

What’s knowledge base or knowledge management (KM)? The portlet Knowledge Base allows authoring articles and organize them in a hierarchy of navigable categories. It leverages Web Content articles,...

Bavithra Rajendran | Feb 16, 2010 7:35 AM

This is my first blog and I am extremely happy that I created Liferay wallpapers and posting as my first blog. I took lot of patience in completing this and as a result I guess it came good . I am...

Julio Camarero | Feb 14, 2010 3:55 PM

Hi everyone, After introducing our goals and objectives for Liferay 6 regarding accessibility, I just wanted to highlight some of the improvements we have done lately. There have been a lot of...

Jeffrey Young | Feb 13, 2010 12:54 AM

As the 2010 Winter Olympics are just a few hours away I started to think about how much computers and information technology play a pivotal role in sports today. It seems every major sport (MLB,...

Paul Hinz | Feb 12, 2010 6:14 PM

Liferay Portal 6 (code name: Bunyan) The next version of Liferay Portal internally code named Bunyan, will be released as Liferay Portal 6. Previously the team had considered naming the version...

Joshua Asbury | Feb 11, 2010 6:17 PM

A couple of weeks ago, Paul Hinz, Liferay's Chief Marketing Officer, asked me for my thoughts about what the future of portals holds. I provided a long, drawn-out response which, when boiled down...

Jonas Yuan | Feb 11, 2010 2:11 PM

FCKeditor has been around for more than six years. Since 2003 it has built a strong user community becoming the most used editor in the market, accumulating more than 3,5 million downloads. On...

Bryan H Cheung | Feb 10, 2010 7:41 PM

Hello to everyone in the Liferay community and a belated Happy New Year. I trust January has been filled with new opportunities and renewed energy for all of us after the holiday break. I've gotten...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 10, 2010 6:02 PM

Reboot.FCC.gov Region: USA Reboot.FCC.gov is the Federal Communication Commission's website for discussion on how to transform the FCC into a model of excellence in government. The FCC is beginning...

Juan Fernández | Feb 10, 2010 4:31 PM

Liferay's objects are being encapsulated into assets (documents, web contents, blog entries are being encapsulated in the new asset concept) and it allows the portal objects to be treated in a...

Juan Fernández | Feb 10, 2010 9:23 AM

Hi guys! For the last few weeks I've been working in a new WYSIWYG editor for Liferay 6. It's the new version of FCKEditor, called CKEditor. Which are the improvements of the new version? The main...

Kristoffer Onias | Feb 10, 2010 1:21 AM

Introduction I'm using my very first entry to explain NTLM integration with Liferay 5.2. While trying to figure this out, I noticed that there was a lack of public information on the actual...

Juan Fernández | Feb 9, 2010 3:47 PM

Hi guys: this week I have been working in the Asset Importer, a portlet that reads a file (odt for the moment) and converts it into a web content so that you can publish your documents an your...

Julio Camarero | Feb 8, 2010 10:57 PM

Hi there! In liferay we have always been concerned about accessibility. Giving everyone the same opportunities despite of her visual, auditory, physical or cognitive disability is one of our main...

Jonas Yuan | Feb 8, 2010 6:50 PM

Federated search is the simultaneous search of multiple online databases or web resources, and it is an emerging feature of automated, web-based library and information retrieval systems. Here...

Jonas Yuan | Feb 6, 2010 8:45 AM

Folksonomies are a user-driven approach to organizing content via tags, cooperative classification and communication through shared metadata. The portal implements folksonomies via tags. A tag may...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 5, 2010 7:00 PM

South Australian Certificate of Education Region: Australia Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.2 The SACE Board of South Australia is an independent statutory authority established under the SACE Board...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 5, 2010 6:51 PM

Tune Money Region: Malaysia Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.2 Tune Money is a company that provides financial services. Offering a wide selection of personalised services, Tune Money also protects...

James Min | Feb 4, 2010 10:51 PM

Just a quick post on a couple of misunderstandings I've seen out in the field lately... Simply setting up Liferay Portal to be load balanced does *not* mean it is clustered. First, let's be...

Dave Truong | Feb 4, 2010 7:48 AM

So BChan should have never given me a server. Since making my wedding site, I've been exploring different things about websites outside the scope of portlet development. This includes: Setting up...

Neil Griffin | Feb 3, 2010 10:43 AM

I'm pleased to announce the new JSF 2.0 Complete Reference book by Ed Burns and Chris Schalk, published by McGraw-Hill. During the planning stages, Ed asked me to be a contributing author and help...

Paul Hinz | Feb 3, 2010 6:18 AM

This week's webinar was a kickoff of the Liferay Webinar Series and a demand for changes in our industry to solve issues impacting our user community. In that webinar, we pointed out several...

Juan Fernández | Feb 2, 2010 10:34 AM

Hi, guys! It's already been a month since I started working in the Liferay team, in the spanish office and I wanted to write a presentation post. When I was part of the community I sometimes...