Blogs

Piper Glen Golf Club Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Piper Glen Golf Club is one of the premier public golf facilities in Illinois. Their course has yet again been awarded the highly coveted FOUR AND A HALF STAR rating and the "Good Value" award by Golf Digest Magazine. They have received the "Good Service" and "Good Condition" awards from Golf...

Happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6 Preview. You can download the files from SourceForge here. The RC will be released in a few weeks with the GA to follow. Plugins for 6 will be released along with the GA. Note that this is a Preview release and should not be used in production. Enjoy!

Swisher International Group Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.2 Swisher International Group is the world's largest cigar company as measured by units sold and is America’s largest cigar exporter, shipping to nearly 90 countries. Swisher.com showcases their products, corporate info, Swisher sporting events, videos, games, and more! ...

CyberStream Technologies Region: Greece Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 CyberStream was founded in 2000, aiming to provide professional services in the IT and networking sector in Greece and internationally. The company was established with a strong orientation towards systems integration as well as implementation of innovative systems and products. ...

Ever since I first started working for Liferay, I had always planned to release two books: the Liferay Portal Administrator's Guide, and the Liferay Portal Developer's Guide. They were designed to be companion books: one (the Administrator's Guide) would help users get started with Liferay by showing how to install, configure, and use Liferay out of the box. The other (the...

 After writing up about adding pingbacks to blogs, I realised that there could be an additional area where pingbacks would be quite useful -- message boards.  So, with a few changes in code, 6.0 will be coming with a new feature that allows messages to post pingbacks to any blogs (or any other pingback consumer). So, when you post a message that contains a URL to any...

Travel Trade Gazette Region: UK + Ireland TTG features news, destination reports and careers advice for the travel and tourism industries. Sectors covered include travel agents, tour operators, airlines, cruise companies, hotels, tourist boards, rail travel, ferry lines, business travel and web-based operators. TTGlive.com features news, photo galleries,...

I would like to announce that starting with version 6, Liferay Portal will be made available under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL) v2.1.  The short history of commercial open source software vendors is littered with examples of vendors promising why these license changes made time-to-time are of benefit to the so-called “community” whereas the real motive is often to...

Ippon Technologies Region: France Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Ippon Technologies is a specialized consulting and development company on distributed architectures such as J2EE and SOA. Their consultants design, develop and deploy high-value and critical applications with specific requirements for performance and quality. Ippon Technologies implements...

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...

Societe Generale Region: France Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Societe Generale offers worldwide financial services that include account monitoring, cash centralization, and payment optimization.  

Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com, wrote a guest post for TechCrunch entitled "The Facebook Imperative." In it, Mark discusses the needs for increased collaboration for the enterprise and also notes how a the more traditional enterprise software (Lotus Notes, Sharepoint, etc.) hasn't really changed since it's inception.  Sure there are add-ons and "socially" things you...

According to the H, Oracle has quietly discontinued OpenSSO Express, the community version of OpenSSO previously made available by Sun. It'd be sensationalistic to make any wide-sweeping generalizations about Oracle's approach to open source from a single incident, but one thing clearly illustrated is that open source software uniquely mitigates risks for its users. Had OpenSSO been...

One of the nice, collaborative features in blogs these days is the ability to leave comments.  But what if you, on your blog, are trying to comment about something somebody else blogged about?  Well, you would use some kind of linkback that would refer to the other blog, and leaves a comment on their blog that you were there. Previously, we implemented trackbacks as a...

Just Keep Moving Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal EE 4.4 By the makers of Tylenol, the Keep Moving Program helps you create a wellness experience that focuses on exercise, nutrition, and health, active living. Whether you choose to participate for 15 minutes or an hour per day, every small step may help reduce mild to moderate arthritis pain. A desire...

In summary, the portal (6.0 or above) supports six different types of plugins out-of-the-box. They are portlets, themes, layout templates, webs, hooks, and ext. Portlets: web applications that run in a portion of a web page; Themes : look and feel of pages; Layout Templates : ways of choosing how the portlets will be arranged on a page; Hooks : allow...

SMU Cox School of Business Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Since 1920, the SMU Cox School of Business has equipped students with the skills, knowledge and experience they need to succeed in business. Major publications—including BusinessWeek, The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report and The Wall Street Journal—rank SMU...

There has been a lot of work trying to minimize the use of the ext environment to keep your site more maintainable and easier to customize. Here are some tips that has helped me keep my ext small and more maintainable/manageable which will also make upgrades more smooth.   Move anything possible in ext to hooks. 1. Do you need to override a *ServiceImpl.java class?...

Hello everyone, Today ends my first week at Liferay so I guess I should introduce myself officially.  I joined Liferay as a software engineer and will lead the effort for official IDE tooling from Liferay.  Previously, I worked for Genuitec, LLC in Dallas, TX, who makes the MyEclipse IDE product.  For over 5 years I was a senior developer for MyEclipse and have been...

Dankook University Region: Korea Version: Liferay Portal 5.1 Dankook University is the first private university ever established after Korea gained independence in 1947. The progressive spirit behind the founding of Dankook University still leads the university today as it continues to write the history of higher education in Korea. DKU now features 20...