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Hello, My name is Ryan and I work at Liferay. I am currently on the web team at Liferay and have the unique opportunity to both use Liferay's software as  customer and collaborate with all the other devs who work in the same office as we do. Over time I have learned or figured out new things about Liferay Portal, as anyone using lifery does, and I want to share those findings...

We've finally released both CE and EE versions of Liferay 6.1 GA3 and along with those releases we've also released the corresponding versions of Liferay Maven Support and Portal artifacts. The version numbers are 6.1.2 for CE GA3 and 6.1.30 for EE GA3. With this release there is one significant improvement in the Liferay Maven Plugin and that is they are no longer directly dependent...

 I took some time to speak to Jorge Ferrer, Liferay's VP of Engineering about all things Engineering and Development in Liferay. This time I'm not starting with butchering names, but positions. Jorge is one of the very early contributors to Liferay, started as community member and got hired, started the spanish office. After an episode "on the dark side", being the GM for Spain,...

When I lead the eBusiness technology efforts at my former employer, Oracle and IBM assigned "Account Managers" to our business unit.  I would hear from these people (there were multiple over the course of a year because no one really stayed in that position for very long) about twice a year.  They would visit our team and primarily try to sell us on additional product...

Following with these blog posts series about good practices in Continuous Integration, I want to talk about the benefits of running tests. Practice 2: Always run the tests When a developer commits a new functionality, it's expected that in that commit, the software works as what we believe it should work. And, if a software works as expected in a single commit, why not...

On June 1, 2013 Liferay released the 3rd General Availability (GA) release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.2-ga3 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.1.x) Liferay Faces 3.0.2-ga3 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.0.x) Liferay Faces 3.0.2-legacy-ga3 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 5.2.x) Liferay Faces 2.1.2-ga3 (JSF 1.2 + Liferay 6.1.x) Project Links Release Notes...

Hi all! I'm writing this blog entry as the first post of a continuous integration blog serie, sharing our knowledge and usage of this technique. In these blog posts, I will to talk about some good practices I would recommend you to follow, based on my experience reading the book "Continuous Delivery", by Jez Humble and David Farley, concretely chapter number 3. And of...

 At this year's Jax I met Ville Ingmann, "Your Business Buddy" at Vaadin (the business card says "VP of German Operations"). With some inadvertent background noise (sorry) we talk about the history of Vaadin in Liferay, the meaning of the name, which also explains the logo, and the integration of Vaadin in Liferay (Vaadin is technology partner of Liferay, the library comes...

I would like to bring attention to a hot topic around the Liferay offices lately, and one that you should definitely consider for the websites that you are working on: behavioral analytics.  I'd like to explain this with a small example that you might be able to relate to: Let's all start with a lovely place that I call Cup Island: I took this photo in the Liferay LA...

La situación económica actual potencia la necesidad de las organizaciones de ser capaces de cambiar rápidamente, para dar respuesta inmediata a los cambios del entorno –tanto previstos como imprevistos– y mantener su competitividad. La colaboración es un concepto ya conocido, pero nunca antes había sido tan importante para la supervivencia empresarial. Como en otras muchas...

I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of the print edition of Using Liferay Portal 6.1! For those of you on your toes (and you know who you are), it's actually been available since Friday, but who reads a blog entry that is published on Friday afternoon? It's a big book. We're getting close to 700 pages now in print, and that does not include the properties...

We are pleased to announce that Sync Mobile 2.0 has been released!   In addition to having incorporated several bug fixes, this version represents the integration of noteable, new features:   Tablet Support: You can, now, use Sync on your iPads and Android tablets. Revamped UI: Allows you to fully take advantage of...

Over the past several years, our North American Sales and Customer Experience Management team has grown at a tremendous rate.  We have team members in New York, Illinois, California, Minnesota, Texas and Florida, but the majority of our team is based in the greater-Cincinnati area.  To that end, It has become increasingly important for us to have a central location to meet...

Enterprise Portal Liferay Partners with TIBCO Software for Lower Cost Back-End Integration

In Liferay we are engaged in redefining some UX concepts, and this has allowed us to experience at first hand, the controversy that is still latent, between the fundamental languages ​​(image and writing). We are working several months on new patterns of interaction, a new visual redesign, and the use of new methodologies associated with the way in which we explore and discover...

En Liferay nos encontramos inmersos en la redefinición de algunos conceptos UX, y ello nos ha permitido comprobar de primera mano, la controversia que aún se mantiene latente, entre los lenguajes fundamentales (imagen y escritura). Llevamos varios meses trabajando en nuevos patrones de interacción, en un nuevo rediseño visual, y en la utilización de nuevas metodologías asociadas a...

Hi all, I'll share with you our latest progress made with supporting OAuth authorized requests. I'll make example with android application since I'm familiar with it (enough to display button). OAuth server support comes as OAuth 1.0a spec based portlet plugin with application registration UI, user authorization approval and secure filter that checks validity of oauth credentials...

 As a preview for AlloyUI was just released (together with the new website) I took the opportunity to have another episode about the UI layer. Luckily two members of the core team, Eduardo Lundgren (with Liferay since 2007/8) and Zeno Rocha (Sep 2012) volunteered. (Eduardo was mentioned already in episode 3 with Nate Cavanaugh, Zeno has joined Liferay since then. Both of them are...

Not long until the Day of Liferay - I'll have 30 minutes to fill, and this is what I intend to cover: A part of my job is in presales, answering all kinds of questions about what Liferay can or cannot do. Some features are almost there, but require a bit of custom development. Now when I reassure customers that this change is actually not that deep, and easy to maintain, I'm doing...

These days I have been pushing all the OSGi stuff through the review process so we have already got some of the work in the master branch. Ray has written a really good blog post about using the Apache Felix Gogo console inside Liferay and he has already explained some of the benefits of our current work so I am not going to explain it here again. We are still...