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I'm sorry it's been so woefully long between updates here. I've been furiously working away on something that I'll have more details about in the next couple of weeks, but I think you will find that interesting. Today's post, however, is of a different bent. You may remember the wallpaper I created back in December. It seems like it was pretty popular, at least internally (they're...

The DAO layer of Liferay for services persistence had a core Hibernate (non-JPA) implementation. But lately, customers have been asking for JPA so as to be able to plugin the provider of their choice. So we created another implementation for the DAO interfaces using JPA. In the first phase, it works with TopLink and EclipseLink. For details, see JPA integration wiki page. But little...

Assuming that indexes have already been created against the fields you're querying against, the Dynamic Query API is a great way to create custom queries against Liferay objects without having to create custom finders and services. However, there are some "gotchas" that I've bumped into when using them, and I'm hoping that sharing these experiences will help someone out there if...

Charles MacPherson Associates Inc. Region: US Founded in 1996, Charles MacPherson Associates Inc. provides staffing, training and consulting solutions for the Luxury Residential and Hospitality Industries. Their business is dedicated to the development and implementation of custom designed solutions for all of their clients.  

Bliss Magazine Region: UK Bliss is a monthly British magazine that covers every part of pop-culture, including: candid celebrity gossip, latest fashions, hair and make-up looks, entertainment reviews, romance advice, psychology for friendships and real life stories.  

hits mobile Region: Spain hits mobile is a new mobile phone operator that offers the best rates for both national and international calls - allowing people to speak with friends and family at the most competitive price and with the highest service quality. hits mobile is part of the Hits Telecom group, a major multinational telecommunications company...

Community Development Foundation Region: UK CDF is the leading source of community development expertise and delivery. As a public body and a charity, they bridge government, communities and the voluntary sector in order to help local people lead.  

Discovery Toys Region: USA Discovery Toys produces toys that surpass the strictest safety standards, including phthalate-free plastic. Specializing in educational toys, they are helping to lead children and families into a brighter future with early developmental learning and financial opportunities.  

"You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into..." The Cross-Browser Compatibility Zone. Tonight I want to cover cross-browser compatibility in Liferay, why I think you...

While at OSCON last month, I couldn't help but notice a lot of chatter between the booths about mobile devices, mobile browsing, and much adeu about how mobile was everywhere I would ever want to be, ever. So, this week I gave in, sipped on a little post-OSCON Kool-aid, and decided to find out what Liferay could do when it came to unlocking the power of my iPhone. As smartphones...

University of Salento Region: Italy The University of Salento aims to serve society by educating the leaders of tomorrow and extending the frontiers of knowledge. The fundamental strength of their university is based on freedom of thought and opinion, transparency and meritocracy.  

Friluftsfrämjandet Region: Sweden Offering a plethora of outdoor activities, like snowboarding, nordic walking, and canoeing - Friluftsfrämjandet is a voluntary, non political, non profit, non religious and independent organisation, founded in 1892, still with the same goal, "That through an outdoor lifestyle, positively affect public health and quality...

Simrit Region: Norway Simrit is a major producer of industrial seals and dampers. Whether aboard ocean-going vessels, in first aid and rescue equipment, earth moving machinery or in hydroelectric dam control equipment, Simrit products can be found everywhere. Simrit products set high standards for quality, functional performance and efficiency. ...

OLVI Region: Finland Olvi plc is the third largest brewery and soft drink company in Finland. Olvi plc is the only brewing company in Finnish ownership with nationwide operations. They are most known for their beers, mineral waters and ciders. In addition to these, Olvi manufactures soft drinks and long drinks.  

UPDATE: Due to the positive response that this post has recieved in the first few minutes, Liferay.com and the Liferay portal will be adopting the new favicon I created in this tutorial. In a continuing effort (read: plead) to see your websites looking awesome, today I would like to show you how to make and update the favicon of your website. A little background; a favicon is the...

Dif Broker Region: Portugal DIF Broker is an independent and privately owned registered investment advisory firm and Broker company whose business includes professional management of portfolios. Their services offer independent investors the convenience and control of automated order placement and executions at low commission rates. ...

In the spirit of blogging about useful Liferay configurations, I thought I would share with you another URL weight-loss secret, losing the :8080 on the end of your URL in Liferay. When you're done reading, you'll know how to turn http://localhost:8080/ into http://localhost/. So, Jon, why does Liferay run on port 8080? Well, dear reader, long ago in the early days of the...

UPDATE: I've added a 1 minute demonstration of this entire tutorial at the bottom of this blog. There's a lot under the hood when it comes to Liferay, and even that is an understatement, but in my opinion there's one very useful feature that never gets enough play; virtual hosting.  In Liferay, virtual hosting is a free, out-of-the-box feature used to host more than one domain...

TOTVS Region: Brazil The word TOTVS comes from Latin and means everyone, everything or totality. It is also the name of the largest ERP software company in Latin America. TOTVS supplies the market with management, systemic, process, performance and infrastructure solutions, through its six business segments, ensuring higher competitiveness and enabling...

Developer Garden Region: Germany Developer Garden is a web 2.0-community that revolves around open source software development, allowing its users to download API's and other powerful tools for creating web applications.