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We have been hard at work here at Liferay and are happy to announce the release of a second community edition of Social Office.   Social Office 2.0.4 CE GA2 contains a variety of bug fixes (see release notes) and is now available for download from Liferay's Marketplace here. For those already using SO CE GA1, you will have the option to upgrade through...

Today, the Liferay IDE team has released Liferay IDE 1.6.2.  This release is minor release that only fixes a couple of issues found with Eclipse Juno SR compatibility.  So if you are using Eclipse Juno SR2 or want to upgrade, you will need to upgrade or install Liferay IDE 1.6.2 first from the normal updatesite URL: ...

Defining UX is an abstraction exercise, a deep thought about all the agents touching upon the product’s value (apart of the typology of this product) by the users. Interactions, sensations, values, evaluations and scenes have become the new path of yellow paving stones over which the projects walk. At the end, all of us desire that our products get it safely to Oz’s marvellous world...

The Liferay open source project relies on its community for many of the evolutionary and revolutionary ideas for features that eventually find their way into a release. Liferay strongly believes in empowering the community not only to be able to create change through feature requests but also to feel responsible for socializing, communicating, recommending, and even...

[EDIT: The A Day Of Liferay page has a detailed guest schedule. Tune into the webcast on April 9 by visiting the same!]. The best ideas often start with "Hey ya'll, watch this!!" or "Oh boy, this is probably a bad idea".  I hope this is one of them. One of the good ones. In this case I literally invite you to "watch this!". On April 9, 2013 starting at 1300 GMT, you...

I'll be in Rome on 7. March 2013 and would like to keep up the infrequent habit to meet members of the community. Unfortunately so far nobody answered with their intent to come - and my favoured venue just replied late that they'll have a concert that night, so it will be loud and crowded. So, I've opted for a low-effort meeting (at least for me): I've decided for Eur Suite Hotel...

This one was designed by using minecraft screenshot! When I see this, I am always feel this grand brandy! Simple, strong, stable and enough space for imagination.  Hope you will like it. The full picture size is 1920x1080. If anyone wants some other size, please leave a comment, I would like to make it.   1920x1080

Some weeks ago we announced the preview release of AlloyUI 2.0. One of the cool things about it is that now we have a pretty new CDN (Content Delivery Network). So instead of downloading AlloyUI to use in your local environment, you just to need copy and paste this line of code and start using it. <script src="http://cdn.alloyui.com/2.0.0pr2/aui/aui-min.js"></script> ...

It has been two years since I joined Liferay, it is incredible how fast time is going. Two amazing years I have been trying to enjoy as much as possible. First of all I would like to thank all my Spanish colleagues to make me feel like if I were at home since the first day I ran into the office. And to all the people who usually works with me on the daily basis and they are...

    In the real world project, there are times when a team develops some feature like google map, twitter, facebook that need remote javascript library between several portlets but for the same portal. There are many similiar features that needs to resuse many codes. We want out code to be consistence and easily to be managed and more importantly we don't want to waste time...

Time for another community roundup!  It's been far too long since the last one, and as usual a lot has been happening in and around our community.  I hope everyone has had a good beginning to the new year, and will find some interesting and useful items below.  Warm up your clickers, and read on! Slides and recordings from last year's autumn Liferay Symposiums...

One of the benefits of moving our documentation out of LibreOffice and into Markdown is that Markdown converts to many publishable formats. We're already converting it into Liferay web content for display on the web site. I had always planned to publish also in PDF and print format, and up until recently, I intended to use the open source DTP program Scribus to do so. Those of you who...

Interview all liferay.com stakeholders about website redesign.  Create affinity diagram to find common issues and brainstorm solutions. Create plan for improving liferay.com site flow and site metrics. Propose new site flow and metrics.  Revise and re-propose site flow and metrics.  Answer to random inquisition and fears about site flow...

Hi everyone! As you know, recently launched Alloy 2.0. To illustrate a bit and have it be something else in our day to day, I made a simple wallpaper of our alloy. Possibly make others more elaborate, but for now we have this. It's nothing official, but I saw that wallpaper is something common here. =)   I've made a few resolutions. If you want...

In the first installment of this series, I showed several (hopefully useful) code snippets demonstrating the programmatic creation of various things in Liferay - pages, portlets, and structured web content, which can be found in the smoldering ashes of the 7Cogs sample data included in Liferay until version 6.1.   I am using these snippets...

Exposing well hidden features Those of you who attended my "Well Hidden Features of Liferay" presentation at the 2012 european symposium might remember the well hidden monitoring information that LIferay is able to hide at the bottom of each page, in HTML comments (when configured properly). (You can also listen to the recording of this presentation on Radio Liferay) The slide...

If you have been curious about Maven, or if you would like to use Maven to develop Liferay plugins, we have a new chapter dedicated to Maven--Developing plugins using Maven found in the Liferay Portal 6.1 Development Guide. After reading the new Maven chapter you will be able to: Understand the benefits of using Maven Set up your Maven environment quickly Use a...

Ok, so don't. This doesn't mean you can't gain advantage of Liferay. Also, what follows is not just a story about Sharepoint. If you have any HTML site of any kind you can gain advantages from using Liferay. Liferay has this crazy simple mechanism called "widgets". Yup widgets! The term has been used, we know, but Liferay has seriously had this feature since at least...

  During a joint meeting in Liferay Brazil, Fernando Areias had an idea of being able to deploy (portlets, themes, etc.), or any component of the SDK derived directly from the Finder by selecting one or more components. Based on this, I've created a simple automator service where through the finder, you can select one or more folders of some components that you want to...

Ding dong! The witch is dead! Which old witch? The 7Cogs witch! [EDIT: Part II covers additional stuff beyond this post!). This isn't news anymore - Starting with 6.1, Liferay replaced the sample data in the bundled Liferay download with a much leaner set of pages and web content that didn't overrun your database with data that was generally the first thing to be removed...