Ivan Cheung

Liferay's Employee Volunteer Program allowed me see my role at work and Liferay's vision to converge in a very unique way. My role at work is mentoring people to mentor other people. Liferay was founded for a purpose greater than revenue and profit growth I took Google Translate (left picture) on my fourth volunteer trip to Mexico. It allowed me to have my first...

  Last week I saw a musical that took my trip to Disney World to a whole new level, and I learned a lesson in taking my own employee experience to a whole new level. I saw "Finding Nemo - The Musical" at Disney World's Animal Kingdom theme park. Here's how it played to my heart: I loved the original movie, Finding Nemo I appreciate creative story telling....

Most of the client (and potential client) locations I've visited in China have been in big, crowded, metropolitan cities.  This particular one was different since it was located on the outskirts of one of the largest southern cities.  We were visiting their headquarters which was strategically located next to their manufacturing plants.  I won't mention how long it...

One of the most widely used features of Liferay is the Personal Community, aka My Community, aka Personal Space. It's a feature that allows users to have their own set of web pages, both private and public, to manage and update as they please. It's also a feature that has been challenging for developers to deal with. For example, you would like to grant certain users a Personal...

I've been playing around with Liferay portal version 5.0.1 and have found some new features that make it easy to create a community driven website.  When I hear good news, I just wanna share it, so here it is.  Enjoy! Part 1.1 is meant for beginner Liferayers to get familiar with some of the cool out of the box settings Liferay portal has that may help you in other projects....

Recently I set up a clustered environment using three servers, two with liferay-tomcat-4.4.2 bundle and one with apache 2.2 http server.  Here are my steps: STEP 1: Download and install the following, each on a different server: Server A - Apache 2.2 Server B - Tomcat1 (Liferay-tomcat-4.4.x bundle) Server C - Tomcat2 (Liferay-tomcat-4.4.x bundle) At this point you should have...

Recently I happened across a thread where Carlos Santos Sáenz was asking about how to best set up Roles and permissions.  As I attempted to duplicate Carlos' efforts, I realized that the root cause of his (and probably so many other people's ) difficulties had to do with Liferay's UI.  I have to admit that it is confusing at times for me too, which is what motivated me to...

Remember the days of yore when the big annual college job fair came around?  Hundreds of anxious students gather, holding a stack of resumes under left arm while keeping their right hand dry for greeting potential employers.  The sight is humorous to behold, at least from an outsider's perspective, but from a student's point of view it's nerve wrecking!  Recently,...

What is Liferay? Liferay is the reason I'm here in Dalian.   What is Dalian? It's the city that has welcomed us to the Middle Kingdom, but it's also a place with interesting geography. This second tier city is a peninsula boasting clean water and blue skies. Mounds of green hills scatter the city, a remarkable addition to the scenery you'd enjoy out of our twelfth floor...

Here I am in Dalian, China, an area which I hardly know. I want to be open and excited about new experiences in a city not as documented as Beijing on the internet, but I can’t help but feeling helpless in many ways. I have one friend here (coworker),..my wireless router isn’t working properly..i haven’t found a bus schedule or foreigner friendly map…and the worst thing is that I...