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A little over a year ago, iBeacons made their way to the retail market in a mass deployment to 254 Apple stores. Since then, they’ve had technology enthusiasts and event marketers alike anticipating the splash this fresh technology would make in the world of events. If you’re thinking about using iBeacons at your next event or are looking for ways to enhance your attendee's...

This is a story about two sisters, Portal and Platform.  Their father, Brian Chan was a strict and careful man.  He knew his daughters could help the world so he made sure they were always very tidy and followed all the rules and all the standards.  He opened up his home and let anyone visit his daughters for he had nothing to hide.   ...

It's been about 1 month since we launched the Liferay 7 Community Expedition! I first want to thank all of you that have spent your valuable time and brain cycles to help with Liferay 7 exploration, and for collaborating with the rest of our open source community to respond to feedback they have given. I wanted to share some statistics and also remind you of what will happen in...

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.3a! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start] [Detailed Install Instructions]. This release is particularly noteworthy as it represents a new direction for Liferay. Due to the cost involved in producing CE releases we've decided to make...

More than ever before, people are foregoing their desktops and accessing services primarily through their phones and tablets. A strong mobile strategy is now a must-have for businesses. But what approach should your company take? Are websites or apps the better strategy? What about native versus hybrid apps?   In our latest publication, we look to...

The following information is only relevant for German speaking members: Wer mehr darüber erfahren möchte, welche rechtlichen Aspekte bei Nutzung der Community und der Liferay Enterprise Edition zu beachten sind, kann sich noch rasch zum kostenfreien Webinar "Rechtliche Aspekte bei Nutzung von Liferay" morgen anmelden: Donnerstag, den 26. März 2015 Von 10:00 Uhr bis...

Liferay comes with so many features that it's hard to judge when a feature is a good solution for a given problem. I'd like to shine some light onto some of these features and common misconceptions about them because it's easy to abuse them for purposes for which they're not well suited - despite making the impression they might. CC BY-ND 2.0 by S. Benno Today I'm starting with...

Dear community: I'd like to make an important announcement today.   I've been presenting and demoing Liferay Cloud Services at Symposiums, events and customer visits for quite some time now, and most of those presentations had one thing in common: before I presented the product, people thought it was about a hosted or managed platform.  “No, no, no. These are...

One message that I have to give out in trainings doesn't fail to stun the students: When you deploy multiple hooks that override the same JSP in Liferay, you will first get undefined behavior and later end up with a damaged installation. CC BY 2.0 by David GoehringWhen you are installing applications from Liferay's marketplace you don't even have control over the JSPs that these...

Happy Pi Day everyone! You guys should take a look at this site which makes some cool art from the number π.   Also reminds me also that I have two raspberry pi's that need some attention.  Anyone got any suggestions for them? Today is also my ten year anniversary with Liferay!  Wow… I’ve spent a whole decade working for a company! This...

  For anyone wasn't able to attend our webinar about audience targeting, you can check the recorded video here   The Audience Targeting app raises the engagement experience of your portal to a whole new level. This app allows you to segment your audience and create campaigns to target content to user segments. It also allows you to track user actions and...

Update: Hey, we released version 1.0, check it out here!   Hi, community! I'm Javier Gamarra, a new senior Android developer working at Madrid's office! I am glad to announce that the Beta 3 of Liferay Screens is ready, bringing a lot of goodies to the iOS version and...finally, Android support! :) We know many of you were asking for an Android version...

Thanks to our community members, who identifed issues with installing Social Office 3.0 CE on the latest release of Liferay Portal CE, we have released an updated version of Social Office CE, which became available over Marketplace earlier today. Social Office 3.1 CE addresses the version mismatch and contains a variety of improvements (see release notes in the Recent Changes...

Als een softwareleverancier gratis aanvullende producten gaat leveren, dan moeten er bij de klant alarmbellen gaan rinkelen. Ergens wordt er dan iets te veel betaald. Ik merk met de regelmaat van de klok dat grote softwareaanbieders met een breed productenportfolio de klant in de val probeert te lokken. Het klinkt leuk: je krijgt immers ogenschijnlijk meer waar voor je geld. De...

My Documents View New Liferay Sync UI Liferay has released a beta of the new version of Liferay Sync, the popular document sharing add-on for Liferay. Download it from the Downloads page, read the official documentation, and see below for more details on this release! Downloads You can get Liferay Sync (server and clients)...

The single most frustrating part of meeting planning for me lately has been budgeting for bandwidth. Internet access has become a requirement for meetings, and it’s virtually impossible to plan a meeting for the tech crowd without factoring in WiFi -- and I don’t just mean coffee-shop-quality WiFi, but a RELIABLE connection.     Every hotel and convention...

Een bedrijfswebsite mag niet enkel een digitaal uithangbord zijn. Het is bij uitstek een platform om te verbinden met partners, klanten en uiteraard potentiële klanten. Zo’n diverse doelgroep vereist echter een gepersonaliseerde aanpak en dat los je niet op met een paar extra menu-items. Doelgroep-targeting is een sterk opkomende techniek om websitebezoekers gepersonaliseerde content...

In december was ik enkele dagen te gast in mijn favoriete Amerikaanse stad, San Francisco. Als toerist reis je daar bij voorkeur met de karakteristieke ‘cable cars’, die zich op wonderlijke wijze door het heuvelachtige landschap voortbewegen. De taxi is echter een comfortabeler vervoermiddel, ook al valt daar in de VS nog het nodige aan te verbeteren. San Francisco bleek de ideale...

Vroeger was een bedrijfswebsite vooral een online visitekaartje, maar inmiddels is het een essentieel bedrijfsmiddel. Een website gebruik je voor klantcontact, dienstverlening op maat en conversie. Helaas gaan veel van deze inspanningen verloren als een bedrijf geen goede mobiele website heeft. Dat roept de vraag op: is uw bedrijfswebsite al klaar om mobiele bezoekers een goede...

De samenleving is steeds afhankelijker van IT. Al onze persoonlijke gegevens en middelen liggen immers verankerd in systemen van de overheid, pensioeninstellingen, banken en hypotheekverstrekkers. En toch lezen we steeds weer dat veel grote IT-projecten bij deze instellingen falen. Open source software levert volgens mij de financiële en technologische transparantie op die nodig is om...