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Liferay East Coast Symposium 2011 Liferay's third annual East Coast Symposium (ECS) will be held in beautiful Leesburg, Virginia on May 10-11, 2011. ECS 2011 will be a great opportunity for learning, knowledge sharing and networking with blah, blah, and more blah.  Let's talk about how this impacts the community and why you should attend. Why Should I Attend? As a...

  While performing a demonstration last week, I added the Mail portlet into a user's private pages and set it up using my Gmail account. Everything went fine during the demo, but when I tried to startup my environment for another demo later in the week, I ran into an issue at startup that confounded me for a few days:"14:59:00,225 WARN [BasicResourcePool:1841]...

Well, we're marching right along on our way to completion. Manning has just updated the Liferay in Action MEAP with the next-to-last chapter, on Ext plugins. With this chapter, you learn all about Ext plugins, what they're for, and how you can use them. You also learn about the core of Liferay: what it's composed of and how it's architected. Along with this,...

Make a great video and win an Amazon Kindle! Liferay is calling on YOU, the Liferay Community, to showcase your world with Liferay. Participate in Liferay's first ever community video contest, make a video, upload it anywhere, and tell us about it! We're looking for compelling stories about how Liferay positively affects you, your company or organization, or your users and...

This example demonstrates several advanced features of Liferay's Web Content Management provided when taking full advantage of Liferay's Web Content Template processing engine. It'll demonstrate implementing PHASES of the portlet lifecycle, performing AJAX calls, using Alloy Javascript Library, using Liferay's SearchEngine, converting java objects to JSON for passing back as AJAX...

Asurion Region: US Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Asurion is technology protection services leader that offers quality, next-day device replacement along with user content and software protection. Since more than a quarter of all phones in the U.S. get lost, broken or damaged every year, Asurion employs over 10,000 associates worldwide to ensure customers...

Liferay's engineering team has been doing a lot of work on the Document Library for version 6.1.  But in one of the recent weekly meetings, a discussion sparked off about the possibility of having some kind of live preview for the Document Library.  This is meant in terms of both (1) thumbnails of files in the file listing and (2) previews of the actual document that you can...

... and not a joke:) Application servers wiki document collects informations about appservers Liferay portal can be deployed to. More important are the children pages, with various tips, tweaks, tricks and info. For now, there are some Websphere and Weblogic tips, since those I've been frequently working on. As time goes by, there will be more and more info. It's not much for the...

Howdy folks, time for another community roundup.. It's been an action-packed couple of weeks at Liferay.  The first month of 2011 is almost over, and we're chugging along nicely.  Lots of items to mention, plus some upcoming events and community programs to discuss. Don't miss this week's Liferay LIVE on OpenSocial and Liferay.  Paul Hinz will present new...

Let's read the tags content in following XML snippet: <tag>foo&amp;boo</tag> with the single call to (supposing everything is initialized correctly up to this point): xmlStreamReader.getText() We expect the string 'foo&boo' as result, right? No! The return value is (or may be) just 'foo'. XMLStreamReader#getText() is allowed to break the text content...

School Specialty Region: US Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 EE School Specialty is a educational solutions provider focused on providing creative and comprehensive tools that will help students succeed. Here educators can discover curriculum standards for various subjects in addition to supplemental learning products and basic school supplies. Visit the...

This is a new cool feature I worked on with Brian and it’s coming on 6.1 as well as 6.0 EE SP2 and 5.2 EE SP6. With this feature you can add new struts actions to portal from a hook plugin and you can override any existing action with it. There are two interfaces com.liferay.portal.kernel.struts.StrutsAction and com.liferay.portal.kernel.struts.StrutsPortletAction. The StrutsAction...

Last week I wrote about a hook we wrote for Expandos using MongoDB. I just wanted to let you know that it just finished review and is ready for consumption. It's been renamed to mongodb-hook in case we ever want to persist more services to it. Have a look and enjoy!

I wrote wiki article about how to configure JAAS that uses OpenLDAP to auth users. Article also announce new feature i.e. portal property: portal.jaas.auth.type that allows JAAS to authenticate users based on their email address, screen name, user id, or login ( determined by the property "company.security.auth.type"). The only problem with current settings described in article is...

Hey Everyone,  This last year has been an exciting time to be involved in the Liferay Training Program and I wanted to let you know what we've been up to and to give you a preview of some of the exciting things to come.   Portal Administrator training went through a major overhaul to provide more relevant examples and to connect all of the exercises together into an...

Hi all, welcome to another installment of Community Roundup!  The last one was 2 weeks ago (been busy with a few other initiatives, see below), so I've got a lot to share.  Once the community landing page is complete (it's pretty much done now, just doing some final tweaks to make it magical), you can get even more up-to-date community news there, but I'll continue to...

Thanks to all of you, Liferay has an active and growing community that has made a lot of contributions in 2010.  However, with that growth comes inevitable growing pains! One of the areas in which we have experienced continued pain is in the reporting, analysis, and resolution of tickets via Liferay's issue tracking system (based on Atlassian's JIRA).  The problem, as I've...

Update: The expando-mongodb-hook plugin is now committed to SVN and available from trunk. Over the past few months the hype around NoSQL type databases had really been heating up the tech news and blog feeds. There seems to be an overwhelming desire to find scallability solutions that don't seem to be addressed with an RDBMS. What is Liferay to do? Could Liferay support...

I want to make a quick update regarding the latest thing we've been working on: new way of publishing content with the Asset Publisher. The 'classic' way of publishing content with the Asset Publisher consisted on clicking the "Add New" button, the page changed the context to the respective page of the portlet (i.e. Document Library) where the user had to fill the information, and...

Greetings from the next-to-last day of 2010.  Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season!  Liferay is working hard to bring you another great year of technology, innovation, and fun.  I for one am looking forward to the huge number of community events that we have planned (and some that aren't yet planned).  I hope you can make it to one of them...