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In addition to being visually appealing, the Desktop Theme shows the depth to which Liferay themes can be customized. A lot of work has been done to overhaul the css and javascript, so even if you've already seen version 1.0, it's worth taking another look.  Mac:  Vista:  Linux:  One of the interesting aspects of the theme is that the above...

Many of our portlets have the ability for users to leave comments and replies such as Wiki, Page Comments, Blogs, Journal Content, etc. When users hit the Reply button, a simple text box appears. This new feature will add a sliding effect when users hit the Reply button. The simple text box will slide into view instead of just appearing. ok, let do it. we need modify the...

We recently upgraded our live site to use the latest 5.0.x branch. Besides that, we also introduced our first set of custom social networking portlets for use on www.liferay.com. They're code named "WOL" for World of Liferay. The code is available at http://lportal.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lportal/plugins/trunk under the package wol-portlet. WOL serves two purposes. First, it...

So, when we adopted jQuery, I think I should have done more to evangelize it within Liferay. For most web developers in the world, it's really taken off in popularity because the concept is tied to an existing development paradigm, eg. CSS. However, that doesn't mean everyone in Liferay is familiar with CSS. But the benefit for the backend folks is that it let's you focus on only...

Updated: Wed May 28 10:53:09 EDT 2008. See the follow-up article here. In Javascript, "expando" means "to attach additional properties to an object". That's a little bit of hint as to what Expandos are in Liferay. In Liferay the Expando service is a "generic" service which allows you to dynamically define a collection of data. This data can be typed...

A feature I recently discovered was the ability to precompile all the JSPs in Liferay. The motivation behind this discovery was the need for sanity checking after making a small change to nearly a hundred JSPs across many different portlets. After using it on this particular problem, I wanted to know if it was possible to apply pre-compilation to a current ongoing project. In...

Social networks and portals are a natural fit. To that end we're currently doing work to integrate the brand new (still in incubation) Shindig project. Shindig is the Gadget and Opensocial reference implementation currently in incubation under the Apache Software Foundation and being worked on by Google, MySpace, Orkut, Salesforce.com, and many other large social networking sites....

In Liferay 5.0.0+ we have added a new feature: Announcements/Alerts. Announcements/Alerts are two portlets which can be used to broadcast some message to a list of users within a known scope. Essentially they provide a mass messaging engine you'd tend to think of as a "news letter" or one-way messaging. They provide the following features: Configurable, unlimited number...

Hey there, O faithful reader... Man, what a long time since actually posting. Since I last posted, quite a lot has happened, and included in that was the fact that my wife and I visited China with Brian and Caris, Bryan Cheung, Alice, and Dave, to go spend time with Mark, Ivan, and Shepherd. What an experience! There are a few times in everyones life when travel truly changes you in...

Next week here in Spain we will go to Seville to a Liferay Training course. It is great the last enhancements in the training materials because we are going to use and check them near real time ;) This week we have also another course in Bilbao. These training events are the four and three days versions customized for the needs of our customers so we are going to check deeply the...

In a previous post, it was suggested to me that I remove tunnel-web's dependency on JAAS.  What this would do is (1) circumvent issues with JAAS implementations in certain app servers (Tomcat's bugs and the lack of configuration in Glassfish) and (2) allow users to log in using the same login credentials they would use on the portal's signin page (normally, the email...

I read an interesting article today.  You should probably read it first to understand my thoughts but I’ll summarize since most of you aren’t gonna read it and it’s a bit long anyways…  It’s talking about the decision Microsoft has to make with IE8.  The problem is that IE7 and below are all bad browsers because by default they are in quirks mode (it means it...

Hi all, If you have read previous posts you already know about Romulus. Liferay task are related to three areas: Portal mashups Mashups are about reusing. Why not reuse already provided portal functionality? Many portlets have a core functionality and a set of extras, such as rating, comments and others, that will be fine to just to reuse. Server...

We've wrapped up the second day of the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration conference here in Baltimore, where open source software was highlighted as one of the five "disruptive" forces in the technology market. Social computing topics dominated the conference, which makes sense because portals, content management and collaboration software  really do converge in...

A lot of Chinese like some other styles of paginators, this is one I modify the existing jsp page a little to implement it, I think somebody else must have some better ways, please give me some suggestions, thanks. :) Modify "html\taglib\ui\page_iterator\page\start.jsp" <div class="search-pages">    <c:if test='<%=...

I just made a Wiki on how to configure ECJ for your Liferay builds. It is here, but I'll just paste the most important parts:   Liferay Builds with ECJ ECJ, the Eclipse Compiler for Java, is an open source incremental compiler used by the Eclipse JDT. It is an option for Liferay builds and is in many cases faster than Javac or Jikes. The jar for ECJ is included in Liferay...

I don't know about you, but I was not too fond of the Image Gallery display (sorry Brian). So, I decided to get out of my back-end shell, and try a little Javascript and CSS madness! Now, when viewing a given folder, you are shown a grid of thumbnails instead of a list of images. Here's a couple of snapshots of what I did:     Let me know what you think and any other...

Well, it's a little late and yes, it's a little behind, but the first edition of the Liferay Administrator's Guide has hit the presses! Covering Liferay Portal 4.3, it goes over everything from installing Liferay to an application server to integrating it with other services, such as chat and workflow. There's a complete description in the blurb on the back of the book. Writing a...