Blogs

Our blogs has finally gotten a second look and I'm glad.  Blogs should be improved tredmendously and already I see people commenting on people's blogs.  Hopefully the response to blogs will be as positive as the ones we received for message boards and mail.  When Liferay decides to use our own products we really put in a lot of effort to make it a very good product so we...

It's no big secret that Liferay's bundled wiki is one of the most often criticized. And I can understand it. For example, when you first add the portlet you get a view that looks nothing like a wiki and the only option available is adding a node: Hmmm... but what is a node? You may ask. If you go ahead and create a node, it doesn't improve a whole lot: Nodes are actually a...

I have a dual-boot setup on my machine Ubuntu Linux / Windows XP and I often access my Linux Ext3 partitions from Windows using this tool:   fs-driver.org/   It's the most simple thing you can install, and afterward, you will have read-write access to your Ext2/Ext3 partitions.   I can't say much for performance, but that is totally understandable. It's...

This post is a bit tardy only because the past couple of days have been pretty backed up, but the last day of the conference was one of the better ones.I'll go through the sessions that I was able to see.Keynote: Don't Make Me Click by Aza RaskinI learned more in this one keynote than I did in all of the other sessions, combined. This talk just absolutely ruled. I truly wish that every...

I've used the Lomboz plugin now to create several portlet projects for Liferay, and it's worked out very well. For those who don't know what the Lomboz plugin is, it's got a rich history. It used to be pretty much the only open source way of creating Java Enterprise (then J2EE) projects in Eclipse, as it predated the Web Tools Project. Now it works with the Web Tools Project, providing...

I wrote a new wiki because I saw some gripes in the forums.   wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Getting_Started_with_Liferay   I think though, that more people want a guide on how to just start setting up communities, users, basic permissions, and portal default settings. That is a whole new guide altogether, I feel.

I needed to upload some docs to our Document Library today, so I decided to give WebDAV a try instead of uploading each document one by one. I heard that our WebDAV implementation was buggy, so I wasn't looking forward to it, but I thought i'd give it a try anyways.To my pleasant surprise, it worked pretty well! There were a few catches, I wasn't sure what to put in for my...

So, day 2 of the ol' AJAX Experience. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend many sessions today, due to having to reschedule doctors appointments, navigate the trickeries of booking hotels (which got handled very wonderfully by our very own Jen Yamamoto and the famous (and eternally patient) Caris Chan [many many thanks again to you both]), and general coding work.I was able to check...

One of the things I love about my job is the opportunity to travel to different countries and experience everything about the culture. On this particular trip I've had the pleasure of visiting Germany (Langen-Stuttgart-Munich) to do some "special ops" consulting for a large German company. Among the things I've observed about the Germans are that they eat, walk, and work rather...

We finally have a corporate blog! We had been talking about doing this for a long time and finally we've had the time to make the the necessary improvements to Liferay to make this possible. As part of these improvements we have two new portlets, the Recent Bloggers portlet and the Blogs Aggregator portlet. The former allows showing a list of the latest users of the portal (more on...