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Brian Chan | 2008-2-7 上午1:07

Our recent announcement about jQuery caused a lot of confusion among the JSF camp because it seemed to contradict another announcement we made a few months ago concerning ICEfaces. So this blog is...

Jonathan Neal | 2008-2-6 下午11:53

What is Milli Vanilli theme making? According to Jonathan Neal's Alliterated Dictionary of Natural Selection it is "The act or process of designing admirable and successful graphical interfaces for...

Nate Cavanaugh | 2008-2-4 下午9:11

Have you ever wanted to plugin to Liferay's javascript functions, but didn't want to modify the original Javascript, and didn't want to branch off of it? I know I have. For instance, let's say that...

Brian Chan | 2008-2-1 下午6:30

In 4.3.x, our out of the box Glassfish bundle was over 220 megs and only worked on Windows. In 4.4.x, with the help of Raju from Sun, we were able to create bundles for Glassfish around 135 megs in...

Bruno Farache | 2008-2-1 上午4:17

I always thought that it would be very nice if we could compare text files in the document library portlet, just like we developers do with different versions of source code. I finally implemented...

Nate Cavanaugh | 2008-1-26 上午2:39

A few months ago, Peter "The Man" Shin started working on a new theme for Liferay, called, appropriately enough, Desktop. Yes, I know we already had a theme called Desktop, but to be honest, it...

JR Houn | 2008-1-26 上午12:17

I don't think I have ever run into anyone who had a love for tests. And if I by some way I am suffering a form of amnesia and HAVE met someone who loved tests I would have derided and mocked that...

Brian Chan | 2008-1-25 下午8:30

Enhancements include: An improved User and Organization System Users can now be members of more than one Organization Locations are now an Organization Type Roles can now be scoped by Organization...

Jerry Niu | 2008-1-25 上午12:55

This is an OLD one. September 2006 Public Training was held in Los Angeles, CA

Jerry Niu | 2008-1-25 上午12:19

January 2008 Public Training was held in Los Angeles, CA.

Jonathan Neal | 2008-1-24 下午11:45

My Liferay. Part 1. Handball Haiku. the liferay weather, it's showering handball games, small ball, big ball, fun. My Liferay. Part 2. A Plural People. Here at Liferay I'm thunderstruck by the...

Richard Sezov | 2008-1-23 下午9:15

First of all, a belated Happy New Year! This is my first blog post in the new year (and in the new theme), and I'm excited about what I have to report. Last night I finally finished the first draft...

Jorge Ferrer | 2008-1-19 下午2:28

Happy new year everybody!! It's been a while since my last post and this will be a very short one. All I wanted to do is let everyone interested know that I'm working on improving the wiki again....

Michael Saechang | 2008-1-18 上午12:43

While I was surfing the Wiki I found a distress signal coming from a discussion within an empty article. It was a Liferay user calling out for help. Bchan gave me a crash course in PHP portlets and...

Nate Cavanaugh | 2008-1-15 下午8:44

I don't know how Bryan Cheung does it. I believe he flew over 100,000 miles last year, and I'm really quite surprised he's still sane. Why do I say that? Because if any of his trips are anything...

Alexander Chow | 2008-1-15 上午9:34

After several months in the working, we finally got Liferay's Document Library compliant to WebDAV Class 1, per RFC2518!! It is still not Class 2 compliant, meaning locking does not work (and that...

James Min | 2008-1-7 下午7:19

I haven't had 3 solid weeks off in a while, and let me tell you. I enjoyed every minute of it. But I'm back to work today and actually, it feels good too. I love working at Liferay and it really...

Jonathan Neal | 2008-1-3 下午7:43

From the makers of the world's leading enterprise open source portal framework, Liferay is proud to introduce MySpace by Liferay, a Google Gadget, part of Liferay's growing implementation and...

Nate Cavanaugh | 2007-12-31 上午2:58

It's been exactly 10 years since I got my very first computer, which was on Christmas of '97, and was a $400 dollar IBM clone, running Windows 95. I didn't even know how to change my wallpaper, or...

Bruno Farache | 2007-12-30 上午7:00

The Document Library portlet will provide document conversions in Liferay 4.4, here's a screenshot: This requires OpenOffice v2.0.3 or higher running as a service, locally or remotely. Here are the...

Minhchau Dang | 2007-12-26 下午6:59

After reading through Jorge's blog post on the guidelines for Liferay contributions, and after following the link to the style guidelines on the Liferay wiki, I put together a configuration file...

Alexander Chow | 2007-12-19 上午8:59

A few weeks ago I blogged about Tomcat's JNI native library. Recently, I have been at a client site trying to squeeze every bit of speed out of the servers while running on a deployment with...

Ray Augé | 2007-12-17 下午8:11

Ever needed to do file content searches? NO! Then you probably aren't a programmer... j/k I frequently have to search lots of code for some pattern. You'd think this would be a trivial task, but...

Scott Lee | 2007-12-17 下午6:24

So ive been tweaking with the LDAP stuff recently to make it easier for people to do LDAP integration in Liferay. We've added some default LDAP server settings (feel free to send me corrections or...

Richard Sezov | 2007-12-14 下午7:22

Quietly and without much fanfare, we have released the first document in our new Liferay Documentation Project. This is because it's a rather small document, but it fills a need to have some...

Nate Cavanaugh | 2007-12-14 下午6:08

So yes, there has been a long delay from the last time I blogged, but I thought I would come back with something that I have actually been asked a lot about recently, which is CSS Inheritance. I'm...

Jorge Ferrer | 2007-12-14 上午2:31

One of the toughest parts of contributing to Liferay is that we are very strict with the coding and design style. We do this because we believe that keeping a very high level of consistency is what...

Jonathan Neal | 2007-12-13 下午11:52

That's right, Liferay, the world's leading enterprise open source portal framework with Fortune 500 clients in the U.S. and Europe, has developed a new super easy tool that helps you write your own...

Richard Sezov | 2007-12-11 下午9:59

This is a list of things I learned at the Liferay retreat. You should not give Nerf guns to developers with pent up energy from sitting around coding all the time. Pandemonium will ensue. Many...

Jonathan Neal | 2007-12-7 上午12:29

In the U.S they use AIM, in Europe they use MSN, but the true and rightful King of the Instant Messaging world is still, without a doubt, ICQ. ICQ (a cleverly pronounced oronym of "I Seek You") was...

Jerry Niu | 2007-12-6 上午8:18

I had the pleasure of training in Santo Domingo.

Jorge Ferrer | 2007-12-6 上午6:09

Determining the best strategy for doing releases is one of the hardest challenges of developing a software product. We get lot's of feedback related to it, although it's usually in the form of...

Michael Young | 2007-12-6 上午12:34

We had a long conversation at the office regarding release process, versioning, etc, that we'll be presenting at the LA retreat this year. But in a nutshell the goals were to: - increase timeliness...

Jonathan Neal | 2007-12-5 下午7:57

Richard Sezov | 2007-12-5 下午5:56

Okay, I couldn't resist posting this. We had our first snow in this area today (Southern New Jersey, not far from Philadelphia, PA), and it was the triple whammy of: Christmas coming Snow Getting...

Alexander Chow | 2007-12-5 上午7:32

In the last few weeks I have spent quite some time trying to debug some weird problems on deployments of Liferay. Here are a few tricks that I have come across that have proven to be pretty...

Ray Augé | 2007-12-5 上午2:56

Good news all you Linux Liferay users/developers! With the most recent release of Adobe Flash Player (Version: 9,0,115,0), the new multi-file uploader available in the portal now works in Linux....

Brian Chan | 2007-12-4 下午10:52

4.3.5 is the latest stable and recommended production release from Liferay. Release Notes: http://support.liferay.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10014&styleName=Html&version=10260 SVN Tag:...

Michael Young | 2007-12-4 上午6:39

Before I joined Liferay I used to check up on Brian's work from time to time, hoping I could somehow be a part of this small piece of software called Liferay EP. As we're approaching our 9th year...

Ray Augé | 2007-12-4 上午3:37

This weekend is the annual Liferay retreat. That means that many of us are preparing to head to LA to meet and greet co-workers we don't often see in person. For my familly and I, it is especially...

Ivan Cheung | 2007-12-4 上午3:21

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...

Brett Swaim | 2007-12-3 下午2:21

What is the hardest part about programming? I've heard many suggestions by peers, bosses, employees, students and professors. I've heard algorithms, front end (html/javascript), backend (database...

Brett Swaim | 2007-12-3 下午2:21

Since there are now six Liferay developers living in Columbus, Ohio Monday through Thursday I was thinking that we could start showing up the JUGs if anybody is interested. I have done quite a bit...

Brett Swaim | 2007-12-3 下午2:20

When I first started at Liferay I started using Eclipse. After about six months I found the Web Toolkit for Eclipse. I used that for about a year and a half total, until I got staffed consulting...

Richard Sezov | 2007-11-30 下午3:16

I've been meaning all month to get my driver's license renewed. Here in New Jersey, this is the kind of thing many people have been trained to dread. Long wait times and surly people behind the...

James Min | 2007-11-30 上午10:15

In Hamburg trying to wrap up a project, and we've been working quite a lot. It's easy to forget how beautiful Hamburg is:

James Min | 2007-11-30 上午10:07

Need to access session attributes from Velocity? Well, from a Velocity theme (*.vm), you can simply do something like: $request.getAttribute("USER_ID") or... ...

Brett Swaim | 2007-11-30 上午12:06

I love Johnny Rockets Here is a pic of the Ohio crew in the new Johnny Rockets in CMH

Alexander Chow | 2007-11-28 上午5:15

Pentaho has created a set of sample portlets for integration with a JSR-168 compliant portlet container. Though not designed explicitly for Liferay, I have started a Wiki for the installation of...

Jorge Ferrer | 2007-11-27 下午9:55

It's been a while since my last post, but here I'm at it again. This will be the first of a series of posts where I plan to write about the latest improvements to Liferay as we develope them. I...

Richard Sezov | 2007-11-21 下午8:43

What's this? Two blog posts within five minutes? Yes, well, I thought this would be appropriate as we are about to celebrate Thanksgiving here in the United States. I've had this hanging on my wall...

Richard Sezov | 2007-11-21 下午8:33

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 | 2007-11-21 上午1:31

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 | 2007-11-21 上午12:03

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 | 2007-11-20 上午2:00

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 | 2007-11-19 下午7:52

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 | 2007-11-19 下午6:37

November 2007 Public Training was held in Reston, VA.

Richard Sezov | 2007-11-19 下午5:56

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 | 2007-11-19 上午5:43

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 | 2007-11-18 下午5:30

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...