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First of all, a belated Happy New Year! This is my first blog post in the new year (and in the new theme), and I'm excited about what I have to report. Last night I finally finished the first draft of the Liferay Administrator's Guide. It's a bit pared down from the outline that's published out on the wiki, but that was done in order to get the book out as quickly as possible. For the...

Happy new year everybody!! It's been a while since my last post and this will be a very short one. All I wanted to do is let everyone interested know that I'm working on improving the wiki again. After the latest changes there is been a renewed interest in Liferay's wiki and a company has agreed to sponsor some further improvements (let's give them a big thank you). After several...

While I was surfing the Wiki I found a distress signal coming from a discussion within an empty article. It was a Liferay user calling out for help. Bchan gave me a crash course in PHP portlets and I was on my way. Have no fear Sairam! How to Create a Simple PHP Portlet is now a real article. Here below is my very first PHP portlet. You might not be that impressed with my PHP...

I don't know how Bryan Cheung does it. I believe he flew over 100,000 miles last year, and I'm really quite surprised he's still sane. Why do I say that? Because if any of his trips are anything like the one I am currently on, then I have to give him some sympathy and a newfound respect. Right now I am in Frankfurt Germany with Mike Young (who actually had to take a train to Paris...

After several months in the working, we finally got Liferay's Document Library compliant to WebDAV Class 1, per RFC2518!!  It is still not Class 2 compliant, meaning locking does not work (and that also means Office and OS X still cannot edit files directly in the Document Library).  But, achieving Class 1 compliance is the necessary prerequisite and we are finally...

I haven't had 3 solid weeks off in a while, and let me tell you. I enjoyed every minute of it.   But I'm back to work today and actually, it feels good too. I love working at Liferay and it really helps that the people I work with are great.   I'm in Chicago on-site for a another client's project. Even though it is unusually warm today, wish me luck in surviving...

From the makers of the world's leading enterprise open source portal framework, Liferay is proud to introduce MySpace by Liferay, a Google Gadget, part of Liferay's growing implementation and support of the Google Gadget platform. MySpace by Liferay lets you quickly check your most important MySpace alerts through iGoogle, the Google personalized homepage. MySpace by Liferay was...

It's been exactly 10 years since I got my very first computer, which was on Christmas of '97, and was a $400 dollar IBM clone, running Windows  95. I didn't even know how to change my wallpaper, or use my computer for anything more than a CD player/Calculator/Solitaire machine. It's odd that exactly 10 years after getting my first computer, I am reaching another first, and that...

The Document Library portlet will provide document conversions in Liferay 4.4, here's a screenshot: This requires OpenOffice v2.0.3 or higher running as a service, locally or remotely. Here are the supported formats: From (any of) To (any of) Text Formats OpenDocument Text (*.odt) OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text (*.sxw)...

After reading through Jorge's blog post on the guidelines for Liferay contributions, and after following the link to the style guidelines on the Liferay wiki, I put together a configuration file which works with Eclipse's built-in code formatter to adjust the whitespace in your code so that is compatible with the stated Liferay guidelines. To use this configuration file, go to...