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Determining the best strategy for doing releases is one of the hardest challenges of developing a software product. We get lot's of feedback related to it, although it's usually in the form of indirect comments or questions. Some very common examples are:    "When are you going to release the next version? I really need feature X"    "Another release? I just...

We had a long conversation at the office regarding release process, versioning, etc, that we'll be presenting at the LA retreat this year. But in a nutshell the goals were to:- increase timeliness- improve the quality- lock down features- have a LTS / EOL plan for incremental micro (x.y.z)/ minor (x.y)releases- formalize a QA process- start a beta testing program5.0 will be almost...

Okay, I couldn't resist posting this. We had our first snow in this area today (Southern New Jersey, not far from Philadelphia, PA), and it was the triple whammy of: Christmas coming Snow Getting ready to attend the Liferay retreat that caused my two and a half year-old daughter to begin combining the three concepts in song. Though I didn't get it on video, she...

In the last few weeks I have spent quite some time trying to debug some weird problems on deployments of Liferay.  Here are a few tricks that I have come across that have proven to be pretty useful. 1. Monitoring Memory and CPU usage This is pretty basic and is quite helpful in performance tests.  Monitoring these aspects will help determine if a system is memory-bound or...

Good news all you Linux Liferay users/developers! With the most recent release of Adobe Flash Player (Version: 9,0,115,0), the new multi-file uploader available in the portal now works in Linux. I'm using Ubuntu 7.10, and though there isn't a .deb yet, I just couldn't wait anymore. I downloaded the .tar.gz package, followed the instructions and voilà, it worked! Note: I just...

4.3.5 is the latest stable and recommended production release from Liferay. Release Notes: http://support.liferay.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10014&styleName=Html&version=10260 SVN Tag: http://lportal.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lportal/portal/tags/4.3.5/ This release includes more bug fixes. Most notable is that this fixes the problem with compiling large...

Before I joined Liferay I used to check up on Brian's work from time to time, hoping I could somehow be a part of this small piece of software called Liferay EP. As we're approaching our 9th year in development and our second annual Liferay retreat, I became a little reflective of the early days. Here's a sneak peak of Liferay EP 1.7.5 (October 10, 2002). Note that back then you had to...

This weekend is the annual Liferay retreat. That means that many of us are preparing to head to LA to meet and greet co-workers we don't often see in person. For my familly and I, it is especially nice to get away and see new places... we don't get away much. Well, mother nature was kind enough to realize that we would be away for a week and thoughtfully took it upon herself to...

Recently I happened across a thread where Carlos Santos Sáenz was asking about how to best set up Roles and permissions.  As I attempted to duplicate Carlos' efforts, I realized that the root cause of his (and probably so many other people's ) difficulties had to do with Liferay's UI.  I have to admit that it is confusing at times for me too, which is what motivated me to...