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October 2007 Public Training was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Here are some pictures from that training.

October 2007 Public Training was held in North Sydney, Australia. Here's some pictures of the building the training was held in.     Here are some of the attendees.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Push mail Sync'd Calendars Sync'd Todos Sync'd Mail Sync'd Contacts I love that when somebody sends me an email, Exchange 2003 pushes said mail right to my phone.. no waiting! I love that when said email contains a calendar invite I can accept it and not only does it add the appointment to my phone, I see it in...

So last night as I sat in my hotel room in Ohio I was reading a thread about Android, Google's open handset OS. I decided to download the SDK and give it a crack. The first things I noticed were the steller documentation and the ease of constructing a basic app... I had created a simple hello world app in about 15 minutes, 13 of those being reading the doc. It made me realize a few...

Hey All,   Gonna start my first post with a big thanks to everyone who worked on getting Liferay Blogging to a very usable point. Then, I have a question for everyone out there... Snippet or Full Content? By this I mean in the RSS feed of our blogs. Does the world prefer a simple snippet of the content as part of the RSS item? OR does it prefer the Full Content of...

Last week Google announced OpenSocial with an impressive set of partners including Orkut (as expected), MySpace, iLike, Flixter, Oracle, .... There were companies that had their own social network, others that offered applications through the Internet and even companies that provide services and infrastructures. There's been a lot of blogging about whether this is Google's checkmate to...

If you are running Liferay with Tomcat, you have most likely come across this annoying message upon startup: INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance... This is Apache's subtle hint that you can speed up Tomcat.  I decided to see how much of a boost it would give you.  Without the JNI library installed, I get this on startup of a vanilla...

So we've been operational for a little over two months now and this is how we do it over here at the Liferay Dalian Office.   First we work hard:   Then we play hard:   Want to join us?...

So, in an attempt to add some stuff to my blog that I think people might enjoy, I am going to write an entry every Friday, called the Friday Funkfest. What is the Friday Funkfest, exactly? Well, one of the things I absolutely love to do is customize my Windows box with different programs, wallpapers, extensions, etc, and I love visiting really great looking sites, I thought I'd spread...

One of the most controversial things we've done for version 4.3 was to switch all of the icons to using PNG icons. This wouldn't be so bad, as IE can render PNGs with index transparency just fine. The problem comes in when you use PNGs with alpha transparency. What's the difference? There are two types of transparency when it comes to images. Index and alpha. File formats with...