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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 ...

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 ...

As promised, I want to finish the review of the new features of the wiki portlet. This time I'm not going to write much and will let the screenshots speak for themselves:Diff view of changes betweeen versions. Here goes a feature that we've waited for for a long time: Click the button and you get: Nice, right? You have to thank Bruno for it. Subscriptions to changesIt's...

For the last month or so, my focus has been to slowly improve Liferay's WebDAV capabilities.  WebDAV is an incredibly powerful way of accessing data on the portal, but there is always room for improvement.  So, I am blogging to report that there will be some minor improvements in 5.0 (and some bits in 4.4.2).  Here are just a few of the little things that we should be...

I just got back from a week in Rome, part work, part vacation.. (like I ever go on vacation). Here are some highlights of the week. That's me with an original bust of Nero. He was the crazy emperor of Rome who used human beings he didn't like as human torches to light up Rome, hence the modern CD burning software with his name. I originally took this picture with...

Ok, maybe the title is a bit pretentious but I have to say that I'm really excited with the results. I'm surprised myself with how much we've been able to do in so little time. IMHO after these improvements Liferay Wiki can be compared to the most known wiki products out there (proprietary or Open Source). Not only it's comparable to them in terms of wiki related functionalities but it...

Despite years of resistance, I am now a Kubuntu user. It's taken a lot to get me here, but if you're interested, hang on to your hat. I've been using Linux for many years as my primary operating system at home. I started off in 1994 (!) with a copy of Slackware that came with a book and several CDs of software. I managed to configure my 486DX/33 system to triple boot DOS, OS/2, and...

Oh to be young again... Hold on, I am young - young, healthy, well, mostly healthy, and ready to take on the world!  So, what better way to take on the computer world than take on the king of the computer mountaintop, Bill Gates, wait, no Google, hmm, um ... Liferay? jQuery!  jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript...

Yesterday I received my first book bought at Lulu.com and I have to say that the whole process has been great. The price has been lower than the usual technical books I buy and I've had to wait much less than I usually wait when buying a book in on-line shops. Note that I have no relationship with Lulu.com at all, but I think when people do a good job they deserve being recognized for...

Liferay offers a wide variety of different remote API's. A very useful one is JSON. It's useful because most languages have JSON processing functions. So the only dependencies are those and HTTP request handling functions. Here is a complete example of adding a Country from a PHP script: <?php## This example uses HTTP_Request package located found...