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It's no big secret that Liferay's bundled wiki is one of the most often criticized. And I can understand it. For example, when you first add the portlet you get a view that looks nothing like a wiki and the only option available is adding a node: Hmmm... but what is a node? You may ask. If you go ahead and create a node, it doesn't improve a whole lot: Nodes are actually a...

I have a dual-boot setup on my machine Ubuntu Linux / Windows XP and I often access my Linux Ext3 partitions from Windows using this tool:   fs-driver.org/   It's the most simple thing you can install, and afterward, you will have read-write access to your Ext2/Ext3 partitions.   I can't say much for performance, but that is totally understandable. It's...

This post is a bit tardy only because the past couple of days have been pretty backed up, but the last day of the conference was one of the better ones.I'll go through the sessions that I was able to see.Keynote: Don't Make Me Click by Aza RaskinI learned more in this one keynote than I did in all of the other sessions, combined. This talk just absolutely ruled. I truly wish that every...

I've used the Lomboz plugin now to create several portlet projects for Liferay, and it's worked out very well. For those who don't know what the Lomboz plugin is, it's got a rich history. It used to be pretty much the only open source way of creating Java Enterprise (then J2EE) projects in Eclipse, as it predated the Web Tools Project. Now it works with the Web Tools Project, providing...

I wrote a new wiki because I saw some gripes in the forums.   wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Getting_Started_with_Liferay   I think though, that more people want a guide on how to just start setting up communities, users, basic permissions, and portal default settings. That is a whole new guide altogether, I feel.

I needed to upload some docs to our Document Library today, so I decided to give WebDAV a try instead of uploading each document one by one. I heard that our WebDAV implementation was buggy, so I wasn't looking forward to it, but I thought i'd give it a try anyways.To my pleasant surprise, it worked pretty well! There were a few catches, I wasn't sure what to put in for my...

So, day 2 of the ol' AJAX Experience. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend many sessions today, due to having to reschedule doctors appointments, navigate the trickeries of booking hotels (which got handled very wonderfully by our very own Jen Yamamoto and the famous (and eternally patient) Caris Chan [many many thanks again to you both]), and general coding work.I was able to check...

One of the things I love about my job is the opportunity to travel to different countries and experience everything about the culture. On this particular trip I've had the pleasure of visiting Germany (Langen-Stuttgart-Munich) to do some "special ops" consulting for a large German company. Among the things I've observed about the Germans are that they eat, walk, and work rather...

We finally have a corporate blog! We had been talking about doing this for a long time and finally we've had the time to make the the necessary improvements to Liferay to make this possible. As part of these improvements we have two new portlets, the Recent Bloggers portlet and the Blogs Aggregator portlet. The former allows showing a list of the latest users of the portal (more on...

So, here I am at The AJAX Experience conference in Boston, MA. This is an industry event for Javascript and AJAX developers, as well as a chance for different vendors to promote their AJAX wares. Folks like AOL, Mapquest, Sun, Adobe, Google and the like are all here, along with IBM, and many other people.There are also some AJAX/JS superstars here, like John Resig, the founder of...

I read this blog from Prashant. a few days ago about integration with Liferay and OpenSSO. http://blogs.sun.com/pdblog/entry/opensso_and_liferay_integration We just integrated the code snippets into Liferay so users can easily integrate with OpenSSO by just going to the Enterprise Admin portlet and entering the right settings. No more code or properties changes.

Every year around Thanksgiving a radio station in the local Los Angeles, CA area start playing Christmas music. This is one of the things I look forward to during each year, along with Football and Hockey seasons.

Well, that's better. I've now replaced the picture. It seemed appropriate: I took a vacation day during my last week with my old employer in order to take my daughter to the Adventure Aquarium here in New Jersey. It just so happened that I was wearing my Liferay T-Shirt at the time, in great anticipation of starting my new job.   That picture is the result of many attempts...

Wow, horror of horrors, I got my blog page up!   I'm a fairly new Liferay employee, and it looks like the first thing I need to do is replace my image. Currently, it's the mug shot my old employer took for my ID card. :-)    Well, this first entry is just a test anyway. Testing....1..2..3..testing!

"I took a look at jboss portal and concluded that nothing is wrong with liferay, haha" - bui smart guy haha

One of the most annoying things of late has been the slow "glacial" pace of the W3C, which is the standards body for HTML/CSS. It's been bandied about by most professional web devs in the blogosphere that while Flash has gone through 9 versions of it's software in the past 10 years, HTML 4 has not changed, and CSS 3 has not even been finished, let alone implemented in any consistent...

You don't have to be a DBA to get Oracle 10G set up for Liferay. If you just want to get something simple up and running quickly for your Ubuntu machine, just follow this guide: [ This guide adapted from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Oracle10g ]   Basics Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list file:   deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian unstable main...

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It's weird. I just had another one of those nights. I couldn't help myself. I just had to stay up late and keep coding. An idea here. A message post there. Ba DING. Ok. Gotta go code it. I just can't help myself. I think this is what makes open source unique. We work on our code when no one makes us do it. We stay up late at night because it's fun for us. And it's even better when...

more scaffolding ant tasks that will fill in all those annoying xmls for us and create a basic portlet action better urls... i know why we have the ones we have and why we need them but we need to figure out a way to simplify them even more... www.sitename.com as the home page without any apache url rewrites would be lovely ...