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Nate Cavanaugh | 10 Apr 2008

Hey there, O faithful reader... Man, what a long time since actually posting. Since I last posted, quite a lot has happened, and included in that was the fact that my wife and I visited China with Brian and Caris, Bryan Cheung, Alice, and Dave, to go spend time with Mark, Ivan, and Shepherd. What an experience! There are a few times in everyones life when travel truly changes you in...

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Alvaro Del Castillo | 08 Apr 2008

Next week here in Spain we will go to Seville to a Liferay Training course. It is great the last enhancements in the training materials because we are going to use and check them near real time ;) This week we have also another course in Bilbao. These training events are the four and three days versions customized for the needs of our customers so we are going to check deeply the...

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Alexander Chow | 04 Apr 2008

In a previous post, it was suggested to me that I remove tunnel-web's dependency on JAAS.  What this would do is (1) circumvent issues with JAAS implementations in certain app servers (Tomcat's bugs and the lack of configuration in Glassfish) and (2) allow users to log in using the same login credentials they would use on the portal's signin page (normally, the email...

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David Truong | 03 Apr 2008

I read an interesting article today.  You should probably read it first to understand my thoughts but I’ll summarize since most of you aren’t gonna read it and it’s a bit long anyways…  It’s talking about the decision Microsoft has to make with IE8.  The problem is that IE7 and below are all bad browsers because by default they are in quirks mode (it means it...

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Alberto Montero | 28 Mar 2008

Hi all, If you have read previous posts you already know about Romulus. Liferay task are related to three areas: Portal mashups Mashups are about reusing. Why not reuse already provided portal functionality? Many portlets have a core functionality and a set of extras, such as rating, comments and others, that will be fine to just to reuse. Server...

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Bryan Cheung | 28 Mar 2008

We've wrapped up the second day of the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration conference here in Baltimore, where open source software was highlighted as one of the five "disruptive" forces in the technology market. Social computing topics dominated the conference, which makes sense because portals, content management and collaboration software  really do converge in...

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Jian Cao | 26 Mar 2008

A lot of Chinese like some other styles of paginators, this is one I modify the existing jsp page a little to implement it, I think somebody else must have some better ways, please give me some suggestions, thanks. :) Modify "html\taglib\ui\page_iterator\page\start.jsp" <div class="search-pages">    <c:if test='<%=...

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Jian Cao | 21 Mar 2008

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James Min | 19 Mar 2008

I just made a Wiki on how to configure ECJ for your Liferay builds. It is here, but I'll just paste the most important parts:   Liferay Builds with ECJ ECJ, the Eclipse Compiler for Java, is an open source incremental compiler used by the Eclipse JDT. It is an option for Liferay builds and is in many cases faster than Javac or Jikes. The jar for ECJ is included in Liferay...

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Alexander Chow | 14 Mar 2008

I don't know about you, but I was not too fond of the Image Gallery display (sorry Brian). So, I decided to get out of my back-end shell, and try a little Javascript and CSS madness! Now, when viewing a given folder, you are shown a grid of thumbnails instead of a list of images. Here's a couple of snapshots of what I did:     Let me know what you think and any other...

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Rich Sezov | 14 Mar 2008

Well, it's a little late and yes, it's a little behind, but the first edition of the Liferay Administrator's Guide has hit the presses! Covering Liferay Portal 4.3, it goes over everything from installing Liferay to an application server to integrating it with other services, such as chat and workflow. There's a complete description in the blurb on the back of the book. Writing a...

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Alberto Montero | 13 Mar 2008

Could development in Liferay be improved? The answer is allways yes. And, how could development be improved? This may have several answers, and one of them is Romulus. Romulus is an R&D project funded by the European Union. The overall purpose of the project is to improve the productivity of developers of the Java platform (which has a huge installed base in Europe) by applying...

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Alberto Montero | 13 Mar 2008

Hi, I'm Alberto Montero, one of the latest incorporations to Liferay staff. Although sometime hard, it's allways exciting to start a new job,  with lots of new things to learn and to do. My work here will be related to engineering, mainly inside the Romulus project, which aims to improve development in Liferay.  But if you want to know more, you will have to read the...

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Ivan Cheung | 11 Mar 2008

Recently I set up a clustered environment using three servers, two with liferay-tomcat-4.4.2 bundle and one with apache 2.2 http server.  Here are my steps: STEP 1: Download and install the following, each on a different server: Server A - Apache 2.2 Server B - Tomcat1 (Liferay-tomcat-4.4.x bundle) Server C - Tomcat2 (Liferay-tomcat-4.4.x bundle) At this point you should have...

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Jorge Ferrer | 07 Mar 2008

Up until now the editor area of FCKEditor did not always correctly reflect the look&feel that the contents were going to have when published. The reason was that the theme CSS was not being applied within the editor area. With the help of Nate I've just fixed that so from now on, what you see will really be what you get. But this is just the beginning of a better integration. The...

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Jorge Ferrer | 04 Mar 2008

We've been waiting for this moment for a long time. I've received this question by email, in person and through the message boards, lots of times... when will the Portlet 2.0 spec be ready?. Finally we have the good news, I just got an email from Stefan Hepper to the JSR-286 expert group mailing list announcing that the Portlet 2.0 specification has been approved (so it's very close...

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Jorge Ferrer | 02 Mar 2008

I just came across a blog post with an example on how to create a drag & drop effect using jQuery UI. Looking at the code it surprises how easy it is. The whole JavaScript is around 17 lines of code, but but only around 9-10 of them are directly related to the drag functionality. But after hearing Paul talk about all the casuistics he was considering when implementing this...

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Ray Augé | 01 Mar 2008

(Out of Date, but still mostly relevant, has many improvements though) Well finally it's in trunk...   The sponsored staging enhancements (workflow) (which I've dubbed v1.2) features are now in. Let me know what you think.

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Jerry Niu | 28 Feb 2008

UPDATE (2/20/2009) - These instructions apply to versions 4.1.X, 4.2.X, 4.3.X, 4.4..X, 5.0.X & 5.1.X) Read my post on "How to get Liferay running in Windows XP Pro" for reference. Download SQL Scripts and unzip Navigate to the "\[location of SQL folder]\create\" folder Run "create-mysql.sql" The sript will be applied to the "lportal" DB ...

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Jerry Niu | 28 Feb 2008

Install Java   Set JAVA_HOME Set the JAVA_HOME Environment Variable and point it to the location of the JDK Add JAVA_HOME to the Path Env Var Tomcat needs to know the location of the JDK in order to run properly   Download Liferay tomcat bundle   Start up Tomcat   http://localhost:8080 ...

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