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Connection is one of the most important ways to reach your customer. It creates comfort and ultimately trust. I’ve observed that there are generally three types of people who connect well: the Talker, the Asker, and the Engager. These are people who can easily keep the conversation going; with these people there are rarely moments of awkward silence. They are great at creating a...

Recently, Apple announced the arrival of the Apple Watch, their latest product in the wearable tech market. This is big news because, well, it's Apple, but also because it had been several years since Apple gave us anything beyond their typical iPhone and iPad upgrades. Questions from the media about whether it can still create new products post-Steve Jobs have been answered,...

 Hi, I am not common for you here. So I think I need to explain who am I and why I am      here. : Muhammed Shafeek, a Sun Certified java professional having 2 years real time project experience in Liferay portal. Currently working as a technical project leader in Instriva Technologies pvt Limited. – M Shafeek V. I spend more than 1...

This blog is part of a series of entries documenting how we are using iBeacons and Liferay to better engage our audiences at events throughout the year. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Update: Check out my new eBook! Finding Your Way Around iBeacons for Event Marketing. Download the eBook In Part 1 I introduced the concept of using iBeacons for Audience Engagement and reviewed...

Introduction Recently We are deployed our application named TOURFILLA(Travel social networking site, http://www.tourfilla.com ) on AWS EC2 instance. For doing that I refer a plenty of blogs and experiment on that , really J ., Finally we did that. So I decided to write a blog about the way which working for me. In this blog, I am trying to explain how to install oracle...

Since my last blog post, I have gotten quite a few emails and questions about what the future of front end engineering looks like now that Yahoo has ended new development on YUI. What I'd like to cover here is a general overview of where we've decided to go and the reasoning behind the direction. After much thought and discussion, we've decided that AlloyUI 3 will be our final...

Our most recent update to Social Office EE for Liferay Portal 6.2 was uploaded to Liferay Marketplace today. Social Office 3.1 EE provides several improvements over version 3.0 EE, released earlier in the year. You can view the changelog here to get a complete list of fixes and enhancements, but here’s a few of my favorite:   Improved Dockbar Notifications:  ...

You've got a good idea. In fact, it's brilliant. The market is currently lacking XYZ, and you've got just the right product or service that is going to be the first or best to address it.    So, you and a bunch of your hired-hand friends who are equally brilliant start this thing from scratch in your basement. After several months of coding, calls...

Welcome to Boston Liferay is excited to be in Boston this October for the Liferay Symposium North America. This year’s Back Bay venue captures the historic beauty of Bean Town as well as reflecting its modern cityscape.  Boston à l'heure bleue by Manu_H is licensed under CC BY 2.0. © 2010, E. Huybrechts. ...

Tomorrow 4pm CEST I'm going to participate in the dev.life event series, and I give you 4 fine reasons to attend, or check out the recording later. You can learn how can you develop staging and export/import support for your plugin You can see how extremely easy it is to develop that You will see how can the staging UI be customized, how can it be more simple ...

In this blog we will configure OpenAM as Identity provider and Liferay as Service Provider using SAML 2.0. Follow below steps : Download OpenAM 11.0.0 war file from https://backstage.forgerock.com/#/downloads Deploy the war file in Tomcat (Lets say Port 8081). Increase heap and param space. Start the server and hit...

As you might know Liferay comes bundled with Vaadin. Now that Vaadin 7.3 is out as of today, it is perfect time to update your Vaadin portlet. Vaadin 7.3 is the largest release since Vaadin 7 in February 2013. Its largest enhancement is a parameter driven look and feel, powered by Sass and CSS3. With just a few parameters you can completely change the look and feel from iOS6 round to...

The word is out in Twitter, we have released the first development milestone release of Liferay 7. This is a call for really adventurous developers to try it out and give us your feedback. Here are the answers to the questions you may have about the release.   So… is Liferay 7 close to being released? Nope. Our current thinking is that Liferay 7 will be released...

As many of you may have read, Yahoo is immediately stopping development on the YUI library. This decision, while it will have a significant impact, is not news to us. Given our close relationship with the YUI team, we knew this was coming, and have been discussing for a couple of months different plans of action. In the spirit of transparency, I do want to say that we don't...

Overview The Liferay Portal user session timeout is defined by the session timeout value. The article outlines potential solutions for configuring the user session timeout (see Solutions below). Background The session timeout is loaded by method "checkWebSettings" in Liferay Portal Java class  com.liferay.portal.servlet.MainServlet. The session timeout property...

This article accompanies the dev.life session "Ridiculously simple plugins" hosted today (26. Aug, 16:00 CEST, 14:00 UTC) by me. The session is broadcasted on youtube and recording will be available (and linked here) after the session. The purpose of this session is to demonstrate that - given the proper architecture - you can extend Portal Applications within...

We were very happy to have received the Liferay Marketplace award for the best Free Opensource portlet for 2014 . This was a huge thing for us not only because Vaadin.com itself uses the Tori forum portlet as its main discussion board, but also because Tori has shown us how awesome a combination Vaadin and Liferay really are together! With the help of Vaadin you're able to...

Life consists of all kinds of experiences. Some experiences are common, and we can go through them every day. Having a tasty meal. Sitting in traffic. Chatting with friends. Watching a good movie. These kinds of moments make up 97% of our lives. We don't think too much about these moments, they just happen. Then there are those other experiences. The first day at a new job. The...

Today Liferay announced the winners of the 2014 Liferay Marketplace App Contest! This year, we were super excited to see what our community could dream up, and you did not disappoint. The review team witnessed an unmistakeable and significant increase in overall app quality this year, so it was even more difficult to pick the winners. A big thank you goes to each of you who took the...

Hi guys Most of the time I need to embed a Web Content on the theme that I develop. To solve this I usually insert a Web Content Portlet using the following code: #set ($VOID = $velocityPortletPreferences.setValue('groupId', $themeDisplay.getCompanyGroupId().toString())) #set ($VOID = $velocityPortletPreferences.setValue('articleId', $webContentID)) #set ($VOID =...