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CloudSleuth Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 CloudSleuth is a thought leadership community that brings like-minded professionals together to drive the dialogue on cloud computing toward viable strategies on cloud availability, responsiveness and security—through collective intelligence and advanced cloud performance visualization. Forums and blogs connect...

BSF Connection Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The Bible Study Fellowship Connection is your opportunity to be involved with BSF regardless of whether or not you are currently enrolled in a class. After you register you will be kept up-to-date with the ministry and the prayer needs from around the world. Also, you will have access to the Be Still and Know...

As you have been noticed, jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript. Starting from Liferay 6, the portal uses Alloy UI (which is built on top of YUI3) instead of jQuery. That is,...

Our friends at Sesame Street continue to raise the bar when it comes to being culturally relevant for kids.  A few months ago, they released Google search parodies, and now, Grover parodies the Old Spice Guy. Enjoy!  

============================== English ===============================  Liferay keeps growing and our office in Madrid is no exception. Because of this we are looking to incorporate 4 new employees for the following positions: Liferay Account Manager Liferay Core Engineer Liferay Support Engineer Liferay QA Engineer If you are a fan of Liferay and...

 While the ability to have all of our official docs in HTML form and indexed is great, in some cases we all prefer a PDF version that can easily be printed or checked while offline. We've always had the PDF version of our guides available but after the redesign they weren't so visible any more, so some of you had been asking about them. As a result we've just applied an small...

A lot of effort is put into keeping Liferay huge source base formatted consistently, what is very important. There is an advance source formatter (ant format-source) that outputs formatting problems and even corrects some for you. However, since the code base is huge, this task may take several minutes to finishes. Another minor issue is that all sources is scanned, so if someone...

With the release of the Liferay IDE 1.1 I got to thinking it would be really cool to try and build the Social Office Trunk using the Liferay IDE.  I thought I could get a way with using Liferay Portal nightly builds and then build Social Office on top of that.  As it turns out its still easier to check out the Portal trunk and build it manually and then add Social Office...

The Yellow Affair Region: Finland Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The Yellow Affair is an international sales and distribution company in the media industry who specialise in titles with a unique blend of commercial and specialty content. They offer high quality films and TV-series with a commercial and international appeal for all media windows: theatrical,...

A while back I wrote a post about adding custom tools to the Liferay Velocity context. In 6.0 a change was made such that the behaviour has changed slightly. Now all such tools are plain old beans which must implement an interface. The changes also means that I have a lot less code to write and less wiring to do. Let's see how we'd do it now using exactly the same tool as...

Liferay 6 provides a new feature that you can easily implement a different CAPTCHA than the default CAPTCHA, like reCAPTCHA. A blogs post mentioned: Easily Improve Your CAPTCHA. By the way, for 5.2.x one blogs post mentioned: Implement CAPTCHA in Liferay Portlet. Both blogs posts are nice articles. Much thanks to Alex, Jack, entire Liferay development team and...

One of the most interesting improvements of Liferay 6 for developers is that the plugin infrastructure has improved considerably. For example, the hook plugins are now much more powerful and allow customizing the platform in a very maintainable way. Also, the old extension environment has been moved inside the plugins SDK as what are known as Ext plugins. After publishing our new...

Social Equity is a cool new feature in Liferay 6 or above version. Refer to Zsolt's blogs post Social Equity in Liferay. Social Equity can be used to measure the contribution and participation of a user and the information value of an asset. The activities that award equities include, but not limited: adding contributions, rating, commenting, viewing content, searching and tagging. ...

Over the last year, over 1,000 people have attended Liferay's Symposiums.  We have held Symposiums worldwide to simplify attendance and each has been filled with both technical and business leaders looking for indepth knowledge and collaboration on Liferay technologies.  Last week, our largest audience ever, attended the Liferay West Coast Symposium to witness the launch of...

By default, Liferay portal deployed on WebSphere7 will not be able to send any email to Gmail, even if the portal is set correctly (pop.gmail.com:995; smtp.gmail.com:465; secure network connection). The reason is that WebSphere doesn't allow usage of untrusted certificates and signers. smtp.gmail.com has a certificate issued by Equifax Secure Certificate Authority. So, the solution...

When should you use a debugger during development? At ALL times! At least that's my view. Isn't that a hassle? Well debugging sure can be, but if you setup your environment in a specific way, it can actually become very fast and almost transaprent. I like transparent! Here are steps I take to configure my tomcat (I've followed the same steps with JBoss): Note the...

As you have probably already noticed we've just made public a quite large revamp of our documentation. This is the result of a project that has taken several months and has involved gathering feedback from many sources of Liferay's ecosystem, writing and improving documentation, improving the existing docs and developing tools to make them more easily available. But we don't want to...

Early this month I was able to visit with many in the Liferay community at the West Coast Symposium.  I had a great time discussing some of the issues and hearing some concerns of our users with regards to their development environments and specifically their use of Liferay IDE in their daily work.   Then last week after the latest release of Liferay IDE, I realized that...

This has been a long time coming, and could not have been done without the help of a whole team of people, but we have finally done a redesign of the documentation pages on this site. Our previous docs page was, I'll admit, confusing. In fact, we've heard several times that people thought the only documentation we had is in our wiki, and that is far from the truth. The wiki is great,...

Last Friday, I had the pleasure of attending our very first "Roadshow", which was hosted together with our partner Dunn Solutions Group at the Willis Tower in Chicago. As part of our releasing Liferay Portal 6 EE, we're launching a series of roadshows across the world together with partners local to the area. This allows for those that were unable to make our symposiums a chance...