Blogs

AlphaCSP Region: Israel AlphaCSP is your innovative, devoted, and enthusiastic company for Java-oriented services and solutions. AlphaCSP was founded in 1998 and has been part of Malam-Team group since 2005.  

VietSoftware International Region: Vietnam VietSoftware International is a company headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam. Established in June 19th, 2006 as a subsidiary of VietSoftware Incorporated, VietSoftware International is one of the leading software outsourcing companies in the country. They have built their reputation through excellent work quality,...

CCF Online Region: UK The UK’s leading monthly magazine covering all aspects of the call centre industry and customer service in general. Articles give practical advice and tips on how to ensure successful and effective customer contact and the regularly updated website (www.callcentre.co.uk) ensures that readers are kept abreast of the very latest market...

Neckermann Travel Service Ltd. Region: Hungary Neckermann Travel Service allows prospective travelers to book plane tickets, and car rentals, custom tours, and group packages all around the world in one convenient website.  

Newedge Region: Pretty much everywhere Newedge offers global, multi-asset brokerage services on a range of listed and OTC derivatives and securities. Formed from a joint venture between Société Générale and Calyon, we benefit from the support of our two AA-rated shareholders, and are independently managed and regulated.  

DemandTec, Inc. Region: USA DemandTec services represent a combination of software-as-a-service merchandising and marketing optimization applications, packaged service offerings to help further analyze consumer behavior, and consulting services to maximize the overall effectiveness of DemandTec solutions across the lifetime of deployment. ...

You've heard of the Digg effect, but the same is true of the "Google" effect. We're celebrating Sesame Street's 40th anniversary today. Go to www.google.com and you'll see a nice reference to Big Bird. Click on it, and you'll see a reference to www.sesamestreet.org -> happily running on Liferay.

I know that some people are suggesting using the setenv.sh script to control JVM settings for tomcat.Notably I see adding JMX configurations this way, among other things.Be careful what you add to this script as some things, like JMX settings, will break the ability to use the shutdown scripts.The setenv.sh script is called regardless of startup or shutdown of tomcat. If you add JMX...

Probably one of the top 5 questions I get asked on consulting gigs is, "How do I connect to an external database?" The wiki was a bit out of date, so I made a new one for Liferay 5.2. Wiki: Connecting to an External Database and Building Services Against It I'm sorry that it is not prettier and not more well-organized. I'll have to pretty it up later, and make it more...

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you need to deploy a piece of JavaScript (such as Google Analytics) to every single page in the portal? Up to now, the most common way to accomplish this is to include the JavaScript in your theme. However, this can be really annoying if your site uses multiple themes. So, in this blog, I want to show you how you can create a very...

Highbury Group Region: UK Formed in 2000 in the United Kingdom, Highbury Group provides management resources to Europe's largest aircraft manufacturer. The company has personel suporting Emirates A380, Singapur Airlines A380, Belle Albania A320, UPS A300-600F, Delta-Northwest A300, South Africa Airways A340-500.  

I've recently been reading Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Any Hunt, Pragmatic Bookshelf, and it has really got me thinking... (Yes, that was pretty lame. HaHaHa!) Actually it got me thinking on "context", "perspective", "metaphors", and in particular the definition of "Pair programming", which struck me as interesting. Pair programming is a highly...

Have you ever had a super freakish problem with the Liferay CSS Not doing what you expected? I mean I love Liferay's new Minifier, it's fast and efficient. But, it's no fun when you have problems. Suppose you have some css: .something-a .something-b,.something-c .something-d,.ie6 .something-e {  ... do this ...}.something-g {  ... do that ...} Looks innocent...

When I was at the European Symposium, I was surprised how many people said to me "Gosh I wish Liferay could do ABC," in which I responded, "But it has -- ever since version X.YZ!"  But I guess part of that is my fault since I don't blog that much about my work. In any case, I just wanted to highlight two features coming out with 5.3 that some people may be interested in. ...

I've seen a tone of requests lately for how to add Expando Tables and Columns programatically during some startup proceedure. The biggest problem seems to be with PermissionChecker. The problem stems from the fact that alot of people are trying to use the ExpandoBridge API to create columns (attributes) during the startup process. The issue with that is that the default...

Suppose that you, a portlet developer, need to develop a FAQ portlet that displays questions and answers and that allows certain users to create/update/delete FAQ entries, i.e., a simple CRUD application. Usually, the first thing that comes in mind is to implement a new Java-based portlet, actually, 2 portlets, one for displaying and a second for managing FAQ entries. Fortunately, Ray...

European Schoolnet Region: Belgium European Schoolnet (EUN) is a network of 31 Ministries of Education in Europe and beyond. EUN was created more than 10 years ago with the aim to bring about innovation in teaching and learning to its key stakeholders: Ministries of Education, schools, teachers and researchers.  

As part of my work on JSR 314 (JSF 2.0) I've been reviewing the specification, Javadocs, and tag library docs for accuracy. One way I do this is to make examples that test drive what the documentation says JSF 2.0 will do. In Part 1 of this series, I showed how to develop an Ajaxified JSF 2.0 Facelet Composite Component. Now here's Part 2 of my JSF 2.0 Test Drive......

  As part of my work on JSR 314 (JSF 2.0) I've been reviewing the specification, Javadocs, and tag library docs for accuracy. One way I do this is to make examples that test drive what the documentation says JSF 2.0 will do. To that end, here's Part 1 of my JSF 2.0 Test Drive... Developing a Facelet Composite Component Composite Component Tag ...

  On a recent trip to Colorado I had the opportunity to go panning for gold in a stream and take a tour of a gold mine. There may be a lot of gold in the West Portal (shown below), but rest assured I'm still hooked on Liferay. Although I enjoyed my time out there, it is good to be back home in Sunny, FL.