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  One of the new feature in the upcoming Liferay 6.0 is the notion of a Team. A community or organization can now group a set of user and create a team. The notion of a team is somewhat similar to a role but a role is a portal wide entiry while a team is restricted to a prticular community or organization. You can manage the permission to a team like a role.   ...

 TechCrunch published an interview with Mark Andreessen about how enterprise software is on the cusp of a renaissance.  Silicon Valley is cheering.  Jobs will be created.  Innovations will be the norm as enterprises look to make changes to their internal offerings. As someone who has been working for and with a company whose software was created with an...

What’s knowledge base or knowledge management (KM)? The portlet Knowledge Base allows authoring articles and organize them in a hierarchy of navigable categories. It leverages Web Content articles, structures, and templates; allows rating on articles; allows commenting on articles; allows adding hierarchy of categories; allows adding tags on articles; exports articles to PDF and other...

Barcelona Institute of Architecture Region: Spain Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The Barcelona Institute of Architecture (BIArch) is an international institution set up to further interaction between academic research, specialized practice and the cultural dissemination of contemporary architecture. Occupying a space midway between schools of architecture...

australia.gov.au Region: Australia Need to plan your next visit to Australia? Looking for a job there? Looking for the nearest national public toilet? Australia.gov.au offers everything you need to know about the country, and acts as a hub for about 900 other government websites as well. Signing up for an account also allows you to access government...

Lakers Courtside Connection Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Are you a Lakers fan? Hit up the official Lakers Courtside Connection to catch up on all the latest inside news feeds, participate in trivia and contests, and connect with other fans on the message boards!  

This is a short 2 step (rather large step) tutorial on how to implement a way to upgrade your Portlets using hooks and Liferay's UpgradeProcess. I'll also assume that you've created your portlet in our Plugins SDK. Step 1 - Settings First, we'll need to modify liferay-hook.xml to point to a portal.properties so that we can tell Liferay what the build number of our...

Map Quest Developer Network Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The MapQuest Developer Network is your central resource for learning about and working with our SDKs, Web Services, Tools and Resources. The site has beeb built and organized to make using the MapQuest Platform and managing your applications easier than ever.  

Bushgreen Region: UK Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Bushgreen is for people in theatre to connect, collaborate and publish plays in innovative ways, making it easy for you to connect with others and share your work. Bushgreen allows you to: Submit plays directly to The Bush for their team to read and consider for production Connect with...

Eureka Region: Germany Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Eureka is an intergovernmental network launched in 1985, to support market-oriented R&D and innovation projects by industry, research centres and universities across all technological sectors. It is composed of 39 members, including the European Community. With its flexible and decentralised network,...

With the upcoming 6.0 release, you will see many product engineers announce cool new features.  Unfortunately, LDAP integration is neither cool nor new.  However, in 6.0, we have improved the capabilities of our LDAP integration in several areas: 1. You can synchronize user custom attributes between Liferay and LDAP No longer are you limited to the columns in the User_...

GMV , openTrends and CDTEC have joined the partner network of Liferay during January and February to offer Services in Spain. WideScope has has also joined this network to provide services in Portugal. GMV, OpenTrends, CDTEC and WideScope join the Liferay partner network in Spain and Portugal, consisting so far by the following partners: B2B 2000, Gesfor Group (Gold), IECISA,...

First of all, a disclaimer for those of you who don't speak Spanish. I will keep writting most of my posts in English, but this one is about our very first Symposium in Spain so I thought it was a great occasion for my first post in Spanish :) Si, habéis leído bien (y posiblemente lo habréis visto en la portada de liferay.com), el próximo 20 de Abril tendrá lugar en Madrid el primer...

OTTO International Region: Hong Kong/Germany Version: Liferay Portal 5.1 OTTO International (OI) is a professional trading organization with more than 40 years of sourcing experience. OI offers a wide range of products including apparel, sports, lingerie, footwear, furniture, home textiles and electrical/electronic products. Their worldwide, corporate...

BoomerJack's Grill & Bar Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal EE 4.4 Burgers, Beer, 42 HDTV's, Wings and Bands. BoomerJack's Grill & Bar is a great place to have a drink and catch a game or play some games, while enjoying some of the best food you've ever had. Their website offers menu and locations information, their latest events, and even a page...

 I mentioned last time that I would talk about the IO Plugin that we have that makes one of the most common tasks of updating content. So first, I'll show you how to use it, then we'll talk more about how to make your own plugin.   So let's set up our sandbox: AUI().use('io-plugin', function(A){ // Our code will go here }); ...

Good news, everyone; Liferay.com has been featured at HTML5 Gallery for our recent move to HTML5. Visit their entry for Liferay @ http://html5gallery.com/2010/03/liferay/. What is HTML5 Gallery? HTML5 Gallery showcases sites using HTML5 markup, and right now we're one of only five commercial sites listed, and within that category one of only two in English. We're also the only...

Is Open Source a Growing Market or a Temporary Trend?  Are successful open source vendors simply becoming proprietary software vendors with open source community products?  No.  Open source means more than open source code base and the business models for the companies and communities surrounding various projects have become very sophisticated and responsive to customer...

Medical Protective Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Medical Protective, a Warren Buffett/Berkshire Hathaway company, is the nation's highest-rated medical malpractice carrier, according to both S&P and A.M. Best. They have been providing strength, defense, and superior solutions to physicians, dentists and other healthcare providers since 1899....

With the increase in global demand for Liferay products and services, Liferay consultants find ample opportunities to travel to exotic places around the world.  Thiago of Liferay Brazil, working in the region, stopped by to visit me in Malaysia to catch some local surf in the South China Sea. Swing by Liferay Malaysia when you're in the hood...  :) ...