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Recently I tried to draw a 3D Liferay Logo with AI at home. Haven't been drawing since graduate. Maybe it just an okey job to draw this, but it can keep me thinking new ideas, create new things. 'Cause through a picture we can imagine a lot of stories. Like in this picture I can think of a boy encounters a girl in Liferay. And draw them out. And use that as my Valentine's...

Liferay is proud to announce that the Liferay 6.1 CE Release Candidate is available! [Download] The Liferay product and engineering teams, in close concert with our awesome community, have spent many months getting the 6.1 release ready, and this is one of the final builds before it will be generally available. We are making this release in advance of the 6.1 GA release, in...

If you are reading this blog post, you are undoubtedly familiar with open source in general, and Liferay and its open source mission in particular.  Our community is spread out both globally and with respect to the technology that can be used on the web and on the Liferay Platform.  Over the years, numerous contributors have donated their time and resources into what we now...

  For this episode I talked to Dennis Ju, Softwareengineer at Liferay Inc. Among other topics, Dennis is involved with Liferay Sync, together with Gail Hernandez and also with the OpenSocial implementation and Liferay foundation (though we didn't speak about the foundation). Among other topics we talked about Frontends for Sync, (Sync was first mentioned in Episode...

I'd like to mention one of the new features in the upcoming release of Liferay 6.1, which is the remote development and deployment support from Liferay IDE.  The idea is that with this feature you can build Liferay projects in Liferay IDE like normal but instead of the Liferay server running locally it is running on a remote host.  This is accomplished through two things, 1)...

Sometimes there is need of writing custom SQL queries in order to obtain the data acording to our needs. And, as all of you know, Liferay can run on top of the most popular databases so writing this queries should be written "carefully" to prevent unpleasant surprises in the future.  The following lines summarize some of the most common tips that we must pay attention: ...

(apologies for the english-speaking audience: This is an announcement for a german event - doesn't make sense to have it in english) Liferay (in Form meiner Person) kommt nach Jena: Am Mittwoch, 14.12. um 18 Uhr zur GI Veranstaltung "RG Ostthüringen/Jena: Portal-Entwicklungsmodelle". Thema wird sein, unter Ausnutzung einer Portalarchitektur eine Applikation aus vielen kleinen...

  Liferay for your ears - I had the opportunity to record a session with 3/4 of the founders, namely all the Brians (simplifying the "y" in Bryan to "i" for this pluralization): Brian Chan (Chief Software Architect), Brian Kim (Chief Operating Officer), Bryan Cheung (Chief Executive Officer). Some of the topics we talked about: How they met and started to work...

Hooks are a feature to catch hold of the properties and JSP files into an instance of the portal, as if catching them with a hook. Hook plugins are more powerful plugins that come to complement portlets, themes, layout templates, and web modules. A hook plugin can, but does not have to, be combined with a portlet plugin or a web plugin. For instance, the portlet called so-portlet is a...

This Blog will quickly explain how to setup debugging in a Liferay Devstudio(EE), which will be leading us through easy steps:   get devstudio from liferay customer portal (http://www.liferay.com/group/customer/downloads/dev-studio/1.4) get the source code from liferay customer portal (http://www.liferay.com/group/customer/downloads/liferay-portal/6.0) ...

Liferay for your ears - This time I sat together with Alexander Chow and Sergio González. Both are Liferay Core Engineers. Alex is "Employee number 8, UK employee number 1 (which gives away his location) and Liferay-Mac-User number 1".  Sergio is Spain's employee number 6. Both have extensively cooperated in the new Document Library for Liferay 6.1 - now called Media Library -...

I recently did a talk at 1DevDay Detroit (http://1devdaydetroit.com) on Open Source and the Community. It was a great event and if you live in the greater Detroit (MI/OH) area, I'd recommend you look into attending next year. Lots of great sessions and wonderful attendees. Here are the slides from that presentation. /documents/5075192/11538079/1DevDay+-+Open+Source.pdf   ...

Liferay for your ears - Meeting Michael Han, Liferay's Vice President of Operations, at the european symposium, I used the opportunity to record an episode on some of his working areas, namely security and performance. He gives some good background on these issues. Among other topics, we spoke about: His background, how he came to Liferay and what he's mainly working on ...

Ever wanted to use a rich text editor (RTE) such as the CK Editor in your custom portlet? Implementing an RTE in your view is (almost) as simple as using a jsp-tag: <aui:field-wrapper label="description">     <liferay-ui:input-editor name="descriptionEditor" toolbarSet="liferay-article" initMethod="initEditor" width="200" />   ...

"Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code." - Author Unknown Here we go again.  Once again I have failed to live up to my promises of a once-a-month roundup, and for that I apologize! It's been a very busy and exciting 6 weeks in our community, so I am here to give you a digest of the latest coolness that is the Liferay Community.  So please keep arms...

Have you ever wondered about the number of deployments and server restarts you do per day ? For example, a single deployment takes 30 seconds and a server restart takes 1 minute (and these numbers are actually very optimistic).  For a typical scenario of 7 deployments and 2 server restarts per hour you need 60 re-deployments and 20 server  restarts per day. That adds up to...

Liferay Portal Systems Development Build dynamic, content-rich and social systems on top of Liferay Use Liferay tools (CMS, WCM, collaborative API and social API) to create your own Web sites and WAP sites with hands-on examples Customize Liferay portal using the JSR-286 portlets, hooks, ext plugins, themes, layout templates, webs plugins and diverse portlet bridges...

Liferay for your ears: Episode 9 of Radio Liferay is another premier: This marks the first recording with more than one interviewee, as well as the first non-Liferay Employees. I used the opportunity during the european symposium to get together with Corné Aussems, Maarten van Heiningen, Milen Dyankov and  Tomáš Polešovský, four Community Contributors. Part of my...

You might be already aware of that, but for the others - Liferay 6.1 will have WYSIWYG editors for Wiki Creole and BBCode. You may use the first one in order to create Wiki pages and the second one - to write messages in Message boards. Actually, you can try Wiki editor right now - it was backported to 6.0 and it is already available on Liferay site (edit or create a new...

Writing is something I've been doing for a long time. I mean, a long time--since I was something like 12 years old. To give you a piece of perspective on this (without giving away my age), I was 12 years old in the 1980s. Since then, a lot of things have changed with regard to writing: word usage (I still by default write *worshipped* and *kidnapped*), the process (mindmapping...