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A few weeks ago our CEO proposed a challenge to me: create a document that shows how to create an Intranet in Liferay in 10 minutes. Here's a demonstration video: Oh, and the document will be available at the Liferay booth at JavaOne.

I love reality checks.. it keeps me grounded.. but these are really hilarious to pass up.  

Hello Hello! I thought I'd use my first blog entry to plug the coming Liferay Meetup =): What: The Liferay Meetup is a FREE event for the Liferay community. We run sessions throughout the day on various topics presented by our own people, integration partners, and clients. The audience is very technical so it’ll be low on salesy marketing content, I promise.  ...

I just wonder in which way liferay does this. use some tools like http://www.review-board.org/?  

In addition to being visually appealing, the Desktop Theme shows the depth to which Liferay themes can be customized. A lot of work has been done to overhaul the css and javascript, so even if you've already seen version 1.0, it's worth taking another look.  Mac:  Vista:  Linux:  One of the interesting aspects of the theme is that the above...

Many of our portlets have the ability for users to leave comments and replies such as Wiki, Page Comments, Blogs, Journal Content, etc. When users hit the Reply button, a simple text box appears. This new feature will add a sliding effect when users hit the Reply button. The simple text box will slide into view instead of just appearing. ok, let do it. we need modify the...

We recently upgraded our live site to use the latest 5.0.x branch. Besides that, we also introduced our first set of custom social networking portlets for use on www.liferay.com. They're code named "WOL" for World of Liferay. The code is available at http://lportal.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lportal/plugins/trunk under the package wol-portlet. WOL serves two purposes. First, it...

So, when we adopted jQuery, I think I should have done more to evangelize it within Liferay. For most web developers in the world, it's really taken off in popularity because the concept is tied to an existing development paradigm, eg. CSS. However, that doesn't mean everyone in Liferay is familiar with CSS. But the benefit for the backend folks is that it let's you focus on only...

Updated: Wed May 28 10:53:09 EDT 2008. See the follow-up article here. In Javascript, "expando" means "to attach additional properties to an object". That's a little bit of hint as to what Expandos are in Liferay. In Liferay the Expando service is a "generic" service which allows you to dynamically define a collection of data. This data can be typed...

A feature I recently discovered was the ability to precompile all the JSPs in Liferay. The motivation behind this discovery was the need for sanity checking after making a small change to nearly a hundred JSPs across many different portlets. After using it on this particular problem, I wanted to know if it was possible to apply pre-compilation to a current ongoing project. In...