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Here we are again, following our bi-weekly releases plan with our third alpha release. We are still working hard to reach beta status as soon as possible and I would like to use this opportunity to explain what our criteria is and how our focus on high quality is driving this release more than ever. But before that, let me brag a bit about our hard work during these past two...

LRNAS2015 was everything I hoped it would be. Every session was packed with demos of upcoming 7.0 features that left anyone using 6.2 very grateful (I was) that they weren't on an even older version. Upgrading for 6.2 won't go unaided, but will require some careful planning and testing. Here is a small slice of new features I am looking forward to with equal parts interest and...

By now, we've heard of the necessity of creating a good experience for our mobile viewers. Yet, we're not always quite sure where to start or what factors should be considered in the process.  As a result, we're creating a three-part series that will address some of these major aspects. These posts will provide some high-level concepts along with practical tips that will help...

You may recall back in February 2014 I published a FreeMarker script that would dump variables from WCM and ADT Templates in Liferay 6.2. Well, it's back, this time for Liferay 7! I tweaked it a bit to show the hierarchy of the request object a bit better and added a recursion depth variable to control how deep down the rabbit hole you go (if you are feeling a bit cold during winter,...

  A continuation of last week's episode, Milen Dyankov stepped in as a co-host and helped me ask the right questions: Ray Augé answers all sorts of questions about the Modularization in Liferay 7 and what to do with your existing investment in Liferay Plugins - what to do with the plugins you already have, where you will have to re-learn and what you can, should or shouldn't...

Alright. It's a wrap, folks. It's been my honor to live blog for all of you who were following along. See you at #LRNAS2016! Looking for day 1's coverage? Here you go. 4:23PM - Closing Keynote: Digital Transformation: Beyond Technology | Bryan Cheung, CEO Some brief concluding thoughts from our CEO: Technology matters… but it’s not as important as we think....

   Another Devcon "private" session - I missed his presentations, but got the summary right when he was done: Ray Augé took the time to answer all sorts of questions about the Modularization in Liferay 7. In fact, he answered so many questions that we made it a 2-episode recording. This week it's about the motivation for modularization: What problem does it solve? Next week...

Why do people go to the Liferay Symposium? This is a common question that has been asked countless times. Of course, if you ask someone at Liferay, our answers might be a little biased... But in our conversations with past attendees, we’ve discovered that the symposium has become a great arena for idea exchange and project insight. Some of our attendees are amazed to learn...

Service Builder is the way how developers are often encouraged to do DB connectivity with Liferay portlets. It is, though, by no means the one and only way how one can connect to databases from Liferay portlets. In many real world use cases, it is better to use standard JPA for ORM and access a DB that is separate from the DB used by Liferay for its internal stuff (such as user/role...

   Wow, 50 episodes already. At this year's Devcon I spoke with Jens Bruhn. He's Software Architect at Prodyna AG, a Liferay Partner and the author of Nabucco Script Center, a Liferay App available on the Marketplace. He also convened the "Pimp my Scripting Engine" workshop at Liferay's Devcon 2015, which I missed. But this only provided a perfect reason and excuse to speak...

By now it's obvious that the effects of a poor mobile experience are both immediate and far-reaching for business. A frustrating and not-so-user-friendly mobile interaction with your site could mean loss of brand loyalty and potential business. How can you offer a mobile user-centric experience that will serve your customers both in the present and future? A responsive website is...

  It's been a long time and finally... Radio Liferay is back with several episodes in the queue. Today, Tomáš Polešovský starts of by talking about Liferay's security team and -procedures as well as his work within that team. Tom has already been a guest on Radio Liferay's ancient episode 9 Here are some of the topics that we talked about: The glorious glamorous days...

Hofburg, Wien CC by-nd 2.0 by R. Halfpaap(English summary below) Servus nach Österreich. Mal wieder bin ich auf dem Weg nach Österreich. Aber dieses Mal komme ich nicht alleine angereist: Anlass ist dieses Mal das LPSF - oder Liferay Portal Solutions Forum - in Wien. Im Anschluss öffnen wir die Veranstaltung und laden zum Community Meeting ein. Die Veranstaltung ist frei und...

  We continue our path towards releasing Liferay 7 with a new alpha release that focuses on fixing bugs and small improvements. This release fixes 254 bugs since Alpha 1 and adds +100 small improvements. During this time we have also had the opportunity to present Liferay 7 twice: first in Germany during DevCon and later in Spain during the Spain Symposium. We are super...

Vaadin portlets initialise using JS and XHRs, typically a couple of milliseconds later than basic html markup based portlets. This approach may cause “flickering”, which may be a bit disturbing if there is other content below the Vaadin portlet, because the browser needs to re-flow the whole page after the Vaadin UI has decided how much space it actually needs in vertical direction. ...

What a coincidence (or maybe not...) that Doc and Marty landed in the future on October 21, 2015, the date of the Liferay Spain Symposium. Maybe we didn’t see any overboards or self-tying shoes, but this event was indeed a window to the future of Web Experience. With Liferay 7 just around the corner, it was the best chance to learn about all its new features first hand from...

Earlier this month Liferay held it's 3rd annual developer conference in Darmstadt, and I was grateful to be able to attend and see old friends, meet new ones, share some of my experiences, and learn a lot from the experts in attendance. We're all stuck behind keyboards and monitors, mobiles and tablets, so it is also nice to get some facetime with those I interact with virtually...

How much do you know about the people who are visiting your website? The more you know, the greater chance you’ll have of reaching them and helping them find what they are looking for. User data allows us to fill in the blanks about our visitors such as age, gender, vocational background and other demographics. This means the more information you’ve gathered...

Liferay Developer Conference and Unconference 2015 were simply great. Lots of sessions, games and chances to meet some of the most active Liferay developers. It was also very exciting and encouraging to register the attention that Audience Targeting has drawn among developers in just one year. Both the session and the workshop led by Julio, Pavel and me were packed and we...

At Liferay, we're always trying to make the life of developers easier. We're constantly improving our products and releasing new open source libraries. Helping people is what drives us. Last week we presented the Launchpad Project for the first time at Devcon. This is an initiative that we have been working for months and not many people had access to. Now, we're finally...