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(We’re offering a worldwide Liferay Certification promotion October-November! See below for details.) Since the launch of the Liferay Certification Program, I’ve had many people ask me what’s the best way to prepare for the exam, and I’ve been telling everyone the same thing. Start with the Liferay Developer Training, and then get your hands dirty by writing some code.  The...

Hello Continuous Readers! I'm here again to share a new CI practice in a very small pill.   Do you remember a time when you had some tests that continuously failed, and nobody had bandwith to work on it? What was the easiest solution for them? Of course commenting or removing them, because they were disturbing your green lights on the server. ...

  The first Liferay DevCon has just started in Berlin and we just can't wait to present the world all new features in version 6.2. So I'm writing the second part of my blog about New Ways of Customization with Application Display Templates for those of you (eager like me) who just can't wait to use ADT in your portlets.   As you...

Hi community!   One of the most important and remarkable improvements of the new version of Liferay Portal are the new mobile capabilities that come out of the box.    We will be presenting these features all around the globe via symposiums and roadshows, but for those of you who can’t wait, or can’t attend one of our events, here’s a...

Liferay's architecture is pretty lean, but there are lots of things to learn about it. What would you be interested in learning? I'm doing a talk next week in Liferay's DevCon in Berlin about Advanced Liferay Architecture. I will also deliver it at the Spain Symposium and the North America Symposium. This presentation will be a follow up of last year's presentation about Liferay's...

  Next week Liferay will hold the first Developer Conference (DevCon) in Berlin. Liferay experts from all around the world will meet up to share their experience and review the latest features of version 6.2.   We'll have the chance to introduce Application Display Templates (ADT), a new framework to add custom display options for...

The 6.2 release is very very close. Those who have talked with the core team about it know that we have been working hard since the 6.1 release to increase the predictability of the releases and at the same time keep increasing the product quality. You have probably already seen that we have released 6 milestones during this time and 2 betas recently. My goal with this blog entry is...

You may have noticed over the weekend that Liferay released a first "Release Candidate" build named RC1. Download it here: Tomcat Bundle GlassFish Bundle JBoss Bundle Other Files Documentation JavaDoc Properties Docs (new!) Other reference docs This is a build that could potentially be promoted to the first GA release! From...

 About a month ago I had the opportunity to talk to Jari Järvelä and Janne Hietala from Arcusys. They both head Valamis, an E-Learning solution on Liferay that later (end-of-August) won the Liferay App Contest. Unfortunately, a lot of work as well as my summer vacation kept me from releasing this podcast earlier (well, for me it was not quite unfortunate that I had a vacation) ...

Have you wanted to find a listing of the properties available to you via Liferay Portal's properties files? Have you wanted to view the property definitions in a nicer format, instead of as plain text ? Good news! Liferay Portal's property file properties are now available online and offline in HTML for easy lookup. We now provide Propertiesdoc--marked up versions of our...

You probably have heard about Liferay's DevCon that we'll have on 9.-10. October in Berlin. Here you'll have a lot of opportunities of learning about Liferay, get your opinion heard and give feedback about what you like or dislike in Liferay. Also, you'll be able to meet a lot of people behind the product. Today we're finalizing the agenda, and it will be public very soon. If...

It has finally happened. Liferay is a proud member of the OSGI Alliance   So what does this mean? Well, immediately it means very little, technically. However, what it means philosophically is that we really care about everyone who uses our products. It means we will continue to strive with every ounce of our being to make Liferay better. What's correlation...

This release was about doing lots of hard work to get things that are just nice to have.  Or rather, lots of hard work to get things to the point that you do not have to have them anymore, like zero configuration of those silly listeners we always had to declare in the bottom of every web.xml whenever we wanted to simply publish a new portlet.   But yet...

On September 5, 2013 Liferay released the 4th General Availability (GA) release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.3-ga4 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.1.x -- including 6.1.2 CE and 6.1.30 EE) Liferay Faces 3.0.3-ga4 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.0.x) Liferay Faces 3.0.3-legacy-ga4 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 5.2.x) Liferay Faces 2.1.3-ga4 (JSF 1.2 + Liferay...

If you’ve been around the Liferay community for any length of time you’ve probably heard some discussion about Liferay offering a certification.  It’s something that we’ve wanted to do for quite a while, but it’s also something that we wanted to do right.  For the last year we’ve been hard at work to make the Liferay Certification Program a reality,and today I am very...

I am excited to see that the next two upcoming Liferay LIVE webinars will be based on integrating popluar open source e-commerce platforms into Liferay.  September 11th will be a LIVE session over Integrating KonaKart into Liferay and the September 18th session will be over integrating Broadleaf Commerce and e-commerce integration strategies. If you have not attended a...

Ever since the Faceted Search API came out there have been a ton of great questions about how to go about creating very specific filters. A recent one is: "find both journal-articles and only PDF-files from Documents and Media Library" This kind of requirement is not suited to being implemented as Facets. Facets are "metrics" calculated across an entire result set. As...

Today Liferay announced the winners of the 2013 Liferay Marketplace App Contest, and I'm particularly happy to see so many great entries and apps in the contest! The contest entries covered a wide range of use cases and employed some pretty cool technology above and beyond Liferay itself, and is a testament to the flexibility and power of Liferay. But it's more than that. Seeing the...

I am currently attending the local Liferay Chicago User Group meeting which is being held at the Metropolitan Club on the 66th floor of the Willis Tower in downtown Chicago.  This is my first user group experience and so far it has been great and am very impressed with the turnout and presentations! As you can see with the picture below, the attendance was really good for...

We here on the IDE team are pleased to announce the new release of Liferay IDE: Liferay IDE 2.0 Milestone 1.  Since this is an Eclipse release all you need is to use the following update site url in the Help > Install New Software... dialog. http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/latest/milestone/ This milestone release is the first in a series of milestones leading...