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Extending Liferay core functionality is rather easy. You can use hook or (if needed) ext plugins to extend the functionality. But what if you want to extend a custom plugin (e.g. one you downloaded from the Liferay Marketplace)? Of course you could download the sources of that plugin and extend it to your needs. But this way you cannot separate your extensions from the original...

As you probably know, in Liferay we are working on a new and exiting project, called Liferay Screens. In two words, the project allows creating complex native applications for iOS and Android in a blink of an eye. If you haven’t tried it already, go ahead, it is worth! Show me, don't explain me! Here is a video, which Jose Manuel, the lead of Liferay...

Last month, I attended BizBash LA. As an event planner, I rarely get to enjoy events from an attendee’s point of view, so this was a great experience for me. Even though I was an attendee, I couldn’t help but revert back to my planner tendencies of directing traffic and ushering people into seats. Based on the smiles I got from others, I think they could easily relate. After...

A little while back, I gave a presentation on a new command line tool that the tooling team was hoping to create to help ease development for Liferay. While we were able to get a working prototype for demonstration purposes we quickly realized that the project would never succeed with the current state of Liferay. The issue was that all of our tools required a bundle of Liferay....

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...

Liferay UK will be hosting some dev.live sessions this November 4th prior to our annual conference on the 5th at Thistle Hotel, Marble Arch, London. Get ready for an exciting afternoon with lot's of tech talks and development for Liferay. This will be followed by a relaxing evening Meetup especially arranged for the occasion with some drinks and friends :) Topics for the...

Overview A problem we someetimes face with our Liferay Portal enterprise (EE) customers is configuring and resolving data sync issues across nodes in a cluster. Thsi article provides some tips and configuration for tracing Liferay Portal data sync issues in a clustered environment. NOTE: There is no "one size fits all" solution to resolving data sync issues. Scenario ...

Do you like conceptualizing and noting important details about Liferay? Do you enjoy explaining terms used in Liferay and in technologies related to Liferay? If so, then it's time you poured this knowledge into Liferaypedia--Liferay's encyclopedia of everything “Liferay”. It's a part of https://dev.liferay.com/. Think of the benefits you and the Liferay community will reap by...

I will show you the steps to install liferay 6.2-SP11 on JBoss 7.1 1 - Download the below files:      - JBoss 7.1 from here and unzip the folder, This directory is referred to as $JBOSS_HOME throughout this section      - Liferay 6.2-SP11 EE WAR file from here      - Liferay 6.2-SP11 EE dependencies jars from...

If you are struggling to choose the right web platform for your project, you’re not alone. There are many options to choose from, each claiming to be better than the rest. How do you choose for your specific project? The answer largely depends on the context of what you are trying to achieve. But whether you intend to build an employee intranet, e-commerce site, or anything in...

The following information is only relevant for German speaking members: Wer mehr darüber erfahren möchte, welche rechtlichen Aspekte bei Nutzung der Community und der Liferay Enterprise Edition zu beachten sind, kann sich noch rasch zum kostenfreien Webinar "Rechtliche Aspekte bei Nutzung von Liferay" nächste Woche anmelden: Dienstag, den 21. Juli 2015 Von 16:00...

Here we go again with another crazy summer app contest! This year, to celebrate the release of Liferay Screens, we are holding another community app building contest with some sweet, sweet prizes! I am happy to announce the opening of the 2015 Liferay Screens App Contest! Build a cool app using Liferay Screens and win! What is Liferay Screens? I'm glad you asked! Liferay...

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...