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It's taken a little longer than planned due to Liferay's annual company retreat and the engineering retreat we did along with it, but here I am with the third entry in the Liferay's Architecture blog series. I also plan to write a fourth one and schedule it for publication next week while I'm on vacation.  My last entry explored how Liferay's code is organized around the...

Just before the holidays I'd like to let everyone know about the two most recent releases of Liferay developer tooling.  Back in November, we released a bug-fix release of Liferay IDE version 1.6.1.  Now today we are releasing a new release of Liferay Developer Studio v1.6.1.  This release is primarily for bringing Developer Studio up-to-date with the latest...

Note: This blog post has been moved to the Liferay Faces Wiki.

Multiple offices, catching up on life and Liferay Every year, we gather all the ranks of Liferay worker bees from across the universe, via planes, trains, and cars, so we can take part in what is known as our Annual Liferay Retreat.  Support, Events, Legal, GM's, HR, QA, C-levels - you name it - everyone spends a weekend together in Southern California at a retreat...

What do you think? This refrain is commonly found in forum posts, emails, and other postings throughout our community, both from employees of Liferay and its wider open source community.  It's important to be a better listener than a better talker, and to that end we in the community (and specifically your Community Leadership Team) are always asking this question, in...

On December 11, 2012 Liferay released the 2nd General Availability (GA) release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.1-ga2 (JSF 2.0/2.1 + Liferay 6.1.x) Liferay Faces 3.0.1-ga2 (JSF 2.0/2.1 + Liferay 6.0.x) Liferay Faces 2.1.1-ga2 (JSF 1.2 + Liferay 6.1.x) Project Links Release Notes Documentation Downloads Demos Version...

  Yes, I know. I didn't keep my previous promise to quickly follow up with the next episode. Thus, I'm not promising again, only revealing that I'm planning to be quicker in future. This is another episode recorded at the previous Liferay Retreat. I sat together with Samuel Kong, GM of the chinese office and member of Liferay's security team. As I've been carrying this...

Liferay.com is getting a facelift.  Fresh theme, content, re-flowed flows - the whole 10 yards (why would anyone want to go only 9 yards, when it doesn't even get them a 1st down?).  And we're not just going to change the site once, but we really want to focus on giving ourselves a new platform for analytics, A/B testing, and the flexibilty to make incremental site refreshes...

Some of you who may have been to this year's North American Symposium you may have heard Bryan Cheung share about our partnership with an Inner City Organization called World Impact.  Here's a story of our last outting.    Enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------------- Last month a number of Liferay employees had the privilege of...

Here I am again for a second entry on the series of Liferay Architecture. This time I'm going to talk a bit more about the services layer of Liferay. As can be seen in the architecture diagram with which I started this series, the services layer is at the core of Liferay Portal: The Services layer contains the great majority of the business logic for the portal platform and...

In response to some of the recent happenings at HP with the purchase of Autonomy, TechCrunch has released its verdict that "The enterprise software space is a giant, stinking mess."  Frankly, I couldn't agree more.   The old, sales-driven methodology of putting the vendor over the customer is going away now that the customer has more and better choices.  Reliance on...

If you're coming to the italian symposium, why not come to the community meetup the night before. All the details are in the italian usergroup's messageboard and wiki. Presenze presunte il 15-11-2012, h18:30 in poi, alla Piedra del Sol, Via Cornalia 2, 20124 Milano - 02 6691901. Please register in the wiki.

Hey guys, As you have already heard we have done quite a few symposiums during October, starting with the one in San Francisco, followed by Germany and finishing with Spain. And by the way, if you live in Italy and haven't had a chance to go to any of them, don't miss out the opportunity to attend the Liferay Italy Symposium this Friday. You will have an opportunity to meet many...

  In a previous blog post we mentioned that we are currently upgrading the Liferay.com site.  We wanted to share more about that process in hopes that it'll be helpful to other Liferay users who want to upgrade as well.   To upgrade from 6.0 to Liferay Portal 6.1 EE GA2 here's what we did: 1. downloaded the 6.1 EE GA2 tomcat...

Here in the LA office we don't officially do anything special for Halloween, but lots of people still dress up in costume anyway... which almost makes it funnier.  Here are a few snapshots from the office today: Design Toes in a meeting Fantasia Mickey HR Rep putting our paychecks together Marketing/Events ...

Liferay has entered into a new technology partnership with PrimeTek Informatics, maker of PrimeFaces. Customers who have purchased Liferay EE and PrimeFaces PRO now enjoy the benefit of a communication channel between our companies, so that technology issues can be resolved in accordance with corresponding Service Level Agreements (SLAs). In addition, this...

I believe it's really important in any community to give credit where credit is due, whenever possible. When you give, even if you don't expect monetary or other material reward, it's nice to be recognized for your selflessness in front of your peers. It makes you feel good to have others recognize your achievements, and it hopefully spurs others to think about what they are good at...

UPDATE: 10/30: Congratulations to the London Java Community and to CloudBees! And thanks to everyone who voted for Liferay.   UPDATE 10/19: Liferay Sr. Software Architect  Ray Augé spoke on behalf of Liferay on the "Meet the EC Candidates" call. You can listen to Ray on the MP3 recording from 19m 50s - 23m 35s. ...

A few minutes ago I have finished my talk about Liferay, modularity and OSGI at the Spain symposium. I am pretty sure I have covered the main points I have planned before the talk but I have many more different ideas I couldn't talk about because I just only got a 20 minutes slot. You can take a look to the slides at my Slideshare...

Godzilla not included Coming to a mobile device near you Things have been going fairly well in converting the Spain Symposium website into a mobile-friendly experience.  The goal is to give our Symposium goers all the info they need at the flick of a thumb, all the while allowing the Spain events team to update on the fly (even during the event!) and have it...