Blogs

  I had a short meeting with Bryan Ho, Lead Graphic Designer at Liferay - With that role it's obvious that we're bridging the audio/visual gap again: A very visual topic in an audio only podcast. But if you're not driving while you listen to this podcast, you can click the links from the shownotes and browse through the archives. Apart from being the creator of the Radio Liferay...

At this year's Liferay DevCon, Suraj Bihari had an interesting session about short URLs. As I was about to do something like this anyway, I decided to make it public from the beginning.   And now everyone can have a look at the result: Ancud ShortURL Portlet   Technically, it's a really simple Liferay MVC Service Builder portlet built with Ant and extended by...

  This is my conversation with Stian Sigvartsen, winner of the Marketplace App contest with his Social Apps Proxy (Link) and well known member of the UK Liferay usergroup, working in Devon and quite a lot with Liferay. Our paths cross quite often, but we finally found some time to talk about Stian's award winning app which basically takes all the boring stuff out of OAuth...

  I'm talking with Brett Swaim, Principal Consultant at Liferay US, on application performance monitoring, horror stories and things to avoid. Brett is dealing with a lot of customers. He's one of Liferay's go-to resources for performance tuning and monitoring. Brett had a presentation on DevOps Best Practices with Liferay, Logstash, Kibana, Elasticsearch, and New Relic  at...

  At Devcon, I took the opportunity to meet several people - stay tuned for several more episodes during the rest of this year. For this episode, I spoke with Zsigmond Rab. Zsigmond is Lead Engineer, Technical Support & Trainer at Liferay Hungary. This is a short and informal tongue-in-cheek talk about support-related issues. We talked and joked about The...

Portlet is small fragment of dynamic content in the web page. And this dynamic content may be text,HTML,xml or some other MIME format. Portlet technology implemented by JSR 168 and JSR 286 standards.   Generally in web application we are very familiar with servlet technology and portlet technology is similar to servlet technology but it consist its own...

UPDATE: Liferay Cloud Services has a new name! See this blog post for details on Liferay Connected Services! Today Liferay Cloud Services enters a new phase of its beta program - and now invites all of our community to participate in the Liferay Cloud Services Beta. If you'd like to try it out (and promise to give your feedback!), visit liferay.com/cloud-services...

Dear community!   Based on market research and community feedback, we’ve seen that more and more companies are using location-based information to make important decisions. Also usage of geolocation tools as a way to show map-based information to the end user is growing.   It is increasingly important to know where the information is being generated, showing...

Greetings to all!  As a proud member of this community, I always wanted to show my appreciation towards Liferay, its philosophy and the great people behind it. And that's why I spent the last few weeks building something to share with the whole community, in the hope that it will be useful in your projects and with the ultimate goal to enrich the Liferay ecosystem. So,...

Just a quite notice that we have pushed a new release of Liferay IDE version 2.2.1 that just pushes a few fixes for the latest major release including a nasty memory, GC bug here that would affect anyone with portal-source open in their workspace.  Also this release prepares us for the upcoming Liferay Developer Studio 2.2 release which will be available on December 1st. ...

You may have noticed that Liferay's new OAuth Provider application was released on Marketplace last week. This utility authorizes third-party applications to interact with a user’s resources. OAuth is a handshake mechanism that redirects Liferay users to a service provider, where they can tell the service provider to allow a plugin limited access to their Liferay accounts....

Corporate data is a very fragile and important thing. It’s the kind of thing you don’t want to break, the same way you don’t want to break a favorite vase. Or an airplane. The cleanup tends to be expensive or, at the very least, very troubling.   Fragility is the reason we make lists and rules. It’s the reason pilots go down an exhaustive list of checks and regulations...

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and what was the biggest problem you faced? Can you ever learn enough? And how do you keep up with the current trends and new features? A platform as big as Liferay spans several...

I'm pleased to announce that there are two new tutorials on Liferay's Developer Network (LDN) for helping you with your Liferay Maven projects in Liferay IDE. Maven is a great build tool, but it can sometimes be difficult to manage. Fret not! Features recently added to Liferay IDE help manage your Liferay Maven projects.     The new tutorial Setting Up...

Wow. Just.. WOW. It's Liferay's 10th anniversary, and I've been blessed to be able to be a part of it the last several years, including this year. A big round of applause goes to you and our entire community for your work and achievements this year! It's been an interesting year for us, both in terms of technology and community. If you attended any online or in-person events this...

When we work with liferay 6.2 portlet development some time we may get null or empty values when we access request parameters or form input values in the portlet action class.   The reason is from Liferay 6.2 Portlet Action class only consider the request parameters which should append with portlet name space value. This is default behavior of...

Feature toggling Have you ever had the delicate problem where you've made a new feature that the customer doesn't wish to activate quite yet?  What do you do? One option is of course to comment out the sections and commit the source change. Another is to never commit the feature to version control until the customer has verified that he/she wants it in production. ...

If content creator wants to decide during creation in which order the different elements will be displayed in the article then there should be a field like DisplayOrder which decide the position of elements in the article , By using structure and templates it is possible to achive this requirment. Lets have a simple example of structure and template . Structure has...

In previous entries I’ve described how we can connect Liferay and Apache Kafka, and I’ve shown a couple of examples of how this integration could be done (you can find the first blog entry  here and the second one here)   At this point, we are able to collect as much information as we need and store it in a reliable and scalable...

For all interested people which participated this years Unconference, here you have the information of my session:   Sometimes one have the requirement to load a certain plugin before another. It's a typical use case, which Liferay covers with the required-deployment-contexts setting in the "liferay-plugin-package.properties" file. So if you have a plugin,...