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Hi there! In liferay we have always been concerned about accessibility. Giving everyone the same opportunities despite of her visual, auditory, physical or cognitive disability is one of our main objectives and desires. When people asked us if Liferay was accessible, it was not an easy question to answer, because usually Liferay is just the framework to build amazing portals and...

Folksonomies are a user-driven approach to organizing content via tags, cooperative classification and communication through shared metadata. The portal implements folksonomies via tags. A tag may be associated to many assets; while an asset may have many tags associated with. This is what we called tagging content.  By the way, a tag may have many properties. Each property is...

Tune Money Region: Malaysia Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.2 Tune Money is a company that provides financial services. Offering a wide selection of personalised services, Tune Money also protects their customers' interests through affordable protection plans and prepaid VISA cards.  

So BChan should have never given me a server.  Since making my wedding site, I've been exploring different things about websites outside the scope of portlet development. This includes: Setting up a full web server (not just running startup.bat) Business (if you could call what I'm doing business) Requirements Advertising (adsense, etc.) SEO The...

  I'm pleased to announce the new JSF 2.0 Complete Reference book by Ed Burns and Chris Schalk, published by McGraw-Hill. During the planning stages, Ed asked me to be a contributing author and help bring the first edition of the book up-to-date with JSF 2.0, and also to write a JSF Portlet Appendix. As listed in the Table of Contents, Appendix A...

This week's webinar was a kickoff of the Liferay Webinar Series and a demand for changes in our industry to solve issues impacting our user community.    In that webinar, we pointed out several issues surrounding web/gadget/java/portlet development, tooling and the new demand for end user capabilities.  In the past, the original goals for portal technologies...

 Hi, guys!   It's already been a month since I started working in the Liferay team, in the spanish office and I wanted to write a presentation post.   When I was part of the community I sometimes missed knowing what was going on in the Liferay team: "What are they doing at this moment?", so I want my blog to be somehow that...

Robert Schware from the Global Learning Portal recently shared with us about a study tour of three different educational organizations to see how the Madrid School System's portal software has made an impact on their educational community and what organizations can do to embrace more open source. Here's a quick summary:  "In partnership with USAID and AMIDEAST, the Global...

ThreadLocal is not the "Silver Bullet" for concurrent issues, actually it is not encouraged to be used in some concurrent best practice. But sometime, it is really needed or can significantly simplify your design. So we have to face it. Since it is very easy to be wrong used, we have to find a way to prevent it causing troubles. So today we are not talking about when and how to use...

Hey guys, So I promised I would put up a link and so here it is: www.winnieanddavid.com Here were a few things I learned... 1) Weddings are really expensive... I should create a donate to my wedding portlet and let anyone send money to my paypal =P 2) Props to you if you are good at photoshop.  The pictures took me a long time to do and they don't even look great. ...

 In brief, you could integrate Alfresco in the portal in following approaches. ·         Web services, referring to the portlet Alfresco Content; ·         RESTful services  - OpenSearch, referring to the portlet Alfresco Content; ·         RESTful...

T-Mobile CZ Region: Czech Republic Version: Liferay Portal 5.1 Within the scope of its business activities to which it is authorised, T-Mobile Czech Republic establishes and operates a public mobile communication network on the GSM standard in the 900 and 1800 MHz bands and provides mobile telecommunications services pertaining to this network. The...

The topic “sharing content across organizations” has been discussed for a while. You can refer to forums entries like Ideas for sharing content across organizations Proposal: sharing tags and assets in organization hierarchy Main challenges are, but not limited,   Security on content Scope of sharing In 6.0, it introduces a group called Shared Global -...

Murcia Cerca Region: Spain Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Murcia Cerca is a social portal for Murcia's expatriates around the world. It has different content and communities depending on the user profile (e.g. Jóvenes, Ayer & Hoy). Regional houses in different countries can publish their local news, events, photos, and more.  

It's been awhile since I last posted a blog.  It's not like I had a bunch of avid readers; in fact I would be surprised if I even had one.  But nevertheless a lot has happened which has kept me away.  The most notable thing is that I got engaged and I am now in the process of getting married. Being the prideful web programmer that I am, I decided I had to build my own...

IO is very important in almost all types of applications, because IO operations can cause bottleneck very easily. In Java's world, there are two groups of IO classes, Traditional IO(TIO), New IO(NIO). And a coming enhancement for NIO, NIO2.The NIO(and NIO2) are targeted to improve performance for certain cases and provide better OS level IO integration, but they can not replace TIO!...

String in Java is special, because its immutable particularity. Immutable String is the cornerstone of Java Security and thread-safety, without it Java is brittle. But immutable comes with price, whenever you "modify" String, you are actually creating a new one, and in most cases the old one becomes garbage. Thanks for Java's automatic garbage collection mechanism, programmers...

A few months ago Minhchau created a migration tool to move document library files from using one hook to another (e.g., JCRHook to AdvancedFileSystemHook).  He showed the code for it and wrote several plugins to handle this.  Due to popular request, this has now been moved into trunk!  I just checked in the code to help facilitate a move from one hook to another.

Starting to recover from jetlag after a two week trip Los Angeles and Liferay retreat. One of the things we finally made some progress during the developer retreat  is providing official maven artifacts for Liferay as well as porting our plugins sdk to Maven. Things are not quite completed but I will provide some instructions here for all early adopters. So our goal is to...

Go Big Event Inc. Region: Canada Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Go Big Event is an online registration service company based in Edmonton, Alberta. They offer simple and convenient event registration solutions to save time and money. Their services include secure online registration, credit card payments, participant management, automatic email notifications...