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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...

Evimed Online GmbH Region: Germany Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Evimed Online GmbH offers Internet-based information services and products that enable physicians to access oncology treatment guidelines, the latest research findings and ongoing studies faster and easier. Evimed's goal is to contribute evidence-based information services in order to improve...

I believe in the power of technology to bring people together.  Although our society lives in more physical isolation than 20 years ago, I think that we are seeing people remove those barriers through self-expression online via Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, Yelp, and on and on.  It is powerful to watch people express themselves. Social media breaks down barriors by allowing the...

Hola, ¿qué tal? Region: Spain Version: Liferay Portal 5.1 Hola, ¿qué tal? is the Spanish course 2.0 which adapts to any student’s needs offering freedom of timetables, place and learning rhythm with Spanish learning material and Spanish online exercises. Hola, ¿qué tal? is the Spanish course online guaranteed by the Instituto Cervantes to learn spanish at...

SpeakEnergy Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 SpeakEnergy is a company focused on improving the energy efficiency of individuals by involving them in online communities. SpeakEnergy works towards uniting those who want to use energy sources more efficiently, including renewable energy sources; and also to better inform others of the choices they...

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...

This is my first blog and I am extremely happy that I created Liferay wallpapers and posting as my first blog. I took lot of patience in completing this and as a result I guess it came good . I am calling this as Ray of Life and Liferay Blossom ( people do excuse me for the lack of better names). These pictures includes a wide range of resolutions for different ratios. Ray of Life ...

Hi everyone, After introducing our goals and objectives for Liferay 6 regarding accessibility, I just wanted to highlight some of the improvements we have done lately. There have been a lot of people involved (Juan, Sergio, Eduardo, Nate, Jorge, Brian,...), so I won't detail what everyone did, but just go through some of the most interesting improvements: ...

As the 2010 Winter Olympics are just a few hours away I started to think about how much computers and information technology play a pivotal role in sports today. It seems every major sport (MLB, NBA, NFL and the NHL) is using a portal to disseminate information about their organization, their teams and their players. Behind the...

Liferay Portal 6 (code name: Bunyan) The next version of Liferay Portal internally code named Bunyan, will be released as Liferay Portal 6.  Previously the team had considered naming the version 5.3 as a follow on to Liferay Portal 5.2  However, after review of the set of features and the future development strategy for our customers and community, it was...

Hello to everyone in the Liferay community and a belated Happy New Year. I trust January has been filled with new opportunities and renewed energy for all of us after the holiday break. I've gotten in the habit of writing an annual year-in-review entry but am a little behind on 2009. So many good things are happening here at Liferay that it's hard to keep up! We recently put...

 A couple of weeks ago, Paul Hinz, Liferay's Chief Marketing Officer, asked me for my thoughts about what the future of portals holds.  I provided a long, drawn-out response which, when boiled down to its essence, comes back to consolidation.   Consolidation of the information that employees and users needs in a single online experience.   Consolidation of data...

FCKeditor has been around for more than six years. Since 2003 it has built a strong user community becoming the most used editor in the market, accumulating more than 3,5 million downloads. On 2009, decided renaming the editor, bringing to the light next generation solution: CKEditor 3.x. CKEditor inherits the quality and strong features people were used to find in FCKeditor, in a...

Reboot.FCC.gov Region: USA Reboot.FCC.gov is the Federal Communication Commission's website for discussion on how to transform the FCC into a model of excellence in government. The FCC is beginning an overhaul of the way it interacts with citizens, including a complete and comprehensive redesign of FCC.gov and its online systems. The reform...

Liferay's objects are being encapsulated into assets (documents, web contents, blog entries are being encapsulated in the new asset concept) and it allows the portal objects to be treated in a consistent way. There are several portlets that are designed to work with this kind of objects and you may be interested in doing this with your custom objects. I have been working with the...

 Hi guys! For the last few weeks I've been working in a new WYSIWYG editor for Liferay 6. It's the new version of FCKEditor, called CKEditor.  Which are the improvements of the new version? The main improve is accessibility: it is WAI-AA and WCAG 1.0 compliant. It implements advanced screen readerssupport, it's fully keyboard navigable, it has natural TAB key usage with...

Introduction      I'm using my very first entry to explain NTLM integration with Liferay 5.2. While trying to figure this out, I noticed that there was a lack of public information on the actual process to do so with an "Out of the Box" configuration. Because I have literally no developing experience, my explination will be as simple as it can get. So I hope...

 Hi guys: this week I have been working in the Asset Importer, a portlet that reads a file (odt for the moment) and converts it into a web content so that you can publish your documents an your website.   We will use this to publish Liferay documentation in Liferay.com very soon   Developing this portlet I had...

Just a quick post on a couple of misunderstandings I've seen out in the field lately... Simply setting up Liferay Portal to be load balanced does *not* mean it is clustered.   First, let's be clear on what "load balancing" is. Load balancing is simply a technique to distribute workload across resources. It is but one component in a high-availability cluster. In Liferay's...

Federated search is the simultaneous search of multiple online databases or web resources, and it is an emerging feature of automated, web-based library and information retrieval systems. Here federated search is referred to the portal. It is very useful to provide federated search abilities, such as search for Blogs entries, users, organizations,  Calendar entries, Bookmarks...