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Just a quick note... Vaadin 7.5.0 was released at the end of June, 2015. I've completed an initial round of testing, and Vaadin 7 Control Panel version 1.0.3.0 is totally compatible with 7.5.0.  All themes compiled and so did the widgetsets. If you run into any problems with 7.5.0 compatibility, please let me know...

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It's not easy shopping for enterprise portal software. There are many factors to consider such as reliability, long-term costs and the ease of development. Not to mention things like meeting compliance standards or working with a customer service team that actually cares about your needs. Regardless, the goal of any sensible organization is to maximize business value by...

I've been having an ongoing 'discussion' with a good friend of mine about the nature of open source and what constitutes open source. It makes me want to turn it into a proper noun, Open Source, because his interpretation seems to me to be quite purist. In a kinda 1999, utopianist way which is very specific. His argument (did I say argument?) is that unless it...

Together with the summer season and the sunny days the sixth milestone has come too. We are getting closer to the end of the year, and this will be one of the last milestones so all development teams are working on finishing some of the features and improvements that have been months in the works to get everything ready for the alpha/beta cycles. This milestone comes very shortly...

This year, Liferay was proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the Red Hat Summit in Boston. With over 210 sessions including ones from top executives and developers worldwide, we knew we’d be in for a treat. We witnessed a number of insightful keynotes and big announcements as well as key interactions taking place at our booth and many others.     In case you missed...

Let me say that again: Content Creation is Not a Development Activity! Pretty strong statement, but for for those considering Liferay as a platform it's really an important concept, one that lives in the core of Liferay. Note: This is really a different kind of blog post for me. I prefer to keep things technical and discuss practical solutions to ...

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and what was the biggest problem you faced? Can you ever learn enough? And how do you keep up with the current trends and new features? A platform as big as Liferay spans several...

  On top of a great product, good leadership has always been a necessity in any successful organization throughout history. But what do people want in a leader? It simply boils down to the fact that they want to work for someone they can trust and follow. They want to be challenged to hone their current skills while developing new ones.  ...

Hofburg, Wien CC by-nd 2.0 by R. Halfpaap Servus nach Österreich. Kurzfristig verschlägt es mich wieder nach Wien und was ist schöner, als sich dort mit freundlichen Menschen zu treffen, die das gleiche Gesprächsthema haben. Am Mittwoch, 1. Juli, 18:30 Uhr ist es soweit. Anmeldung (damit ich weiß, ob wir einen Tisch oder Ballsaal benötigen) bitte per Kommentar hier, twitter...

It might be the most universal and recognizable store in the world. Walk by street corners and chances are you’ll see a bright green sign with the red and orange “7” aglow, beckoning visitors to stop in for a quick slurpee or donut or lotto ticket. This is the local neighborhood convenience store known as 7-Eleven, a franchise which has now generated over $80 billion and grown to...

Originally published on Medium At Liferay we have more than 600 employees spread in 18 different offices all over the world. Some of these people work with similar stuff but they may not interact with each other since they are working in different projects.  This is an interesting problem to solve. Many companies think that just by using an instant messaging tool...

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In Nederland denken we vaak dat we vooroplopen en ons positief onderscheiden van de rest van de wereld. Zelfoverschatting is een zorgwekkende eigenschap en de feiten zijn niet altijd in overeenstemming met het zelfbeeld. In het begin van mijn carrière besloot ik van werkgever te veranderen omdat ik het gevoel had als ‘digital native’ niet de juiste waardering en kansen te krijgen...

Sometimes you need to perform actions which relate directly to your Liferay portal and your site structure. In some cases getting the handle on the layout needed might be a bit tricky though. You might query it with certain parameters, maybe using expando attributes or something similar. One clever little trick we’ve done on some of our projects is using pointer portlets. In this...

Our experiences with corporate brands and products are rapidly evolving with the influx of new technology. As consumers, we are looking for companies that can provide us more content pertaining to our shopping preferences. We want better and more timely offers, smaller barriers to purchase, and the ability to interact with companies across all devices. How can companies...

When 6.2 was first released, there was a lot of buzz surrounding things like responsiveness out-of-the-box, application display templates, updated control panel, and the recycle bin. We heard good feedback about these features, and they have served as great added assets to improve the user experience. Of course we didn't stop there. By analyzing the trends of today while...

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Introduction In my last blog post I had a little rant about the old version of Font Awesome included with Liferay 6.2 and how it would always be out of date because they seem to keep adding new glyphs every day. So I wondered if it was possible to use the current Font Awesome in a theme and started down a path to test it out. Font Awesome For those that don't know,...

Introduction So I'm not the best theme person around.  I'm less a UI guy and more of an implementation person.  Honestly I hate working on themes.  Maybe it's just me, but all of the styling work that you have to do in Liferay, well honestly I find it quite daunting. And when you throw in Bootstrap for responsiveness, SASS for "simplified" stylesheets,...