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Hey gang, I wanted to update you on some recent community news and activities going on.. The Liferay Italy Symposium had over 150 attendees, thanks to those that attended. We are looking forward to next year's events! Dutch members, Proteon is hosting their first Dutch-speaking Liferay Community Event November 23!  There's also a new Dutch Liferay Forum. Aaron...

First of all, greetings to everyone in the Liferay Community. I've been lucky enough to meet many of you around the world over the last two years and I look forward to meeting more of you in the years to come.  As they say, time really does fly when you're having fun.  I can't belive it's taken me this long to writing my first post, and I hope it doesn't take another two...

First off, many thanks to the Liferay team for giving me a chance to be a part of it all.  I think these are exciting times for open source and will continue to be for quite some time.  I came from Sun/Oracle where I worked on portal stuff since 2008 (we adopted Liferay as a core technology on which to base Sun's next portal, which is how I got involved with Liferay in the...

Hello everyone!   Not bad for a first post, WSRP.... a rough one, as someone told me recently, but guess what? Liferay makes it soooo easy for you! ;)   Just download and install the WSRP portlet plugin for your Liferay version and start enjoying!   Wanna try? Go here: http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/WSRP   See you soon! ...

(English version at the bottom) No último dia 27 de outubro realizamos nosso primeiro roadshow na América do Sul em conjunto com SEA Tecnologia, parceira da Liferay Brasil. O evento nos surpreendeu bastante, houve aproximadamente 50 participantes, entre clientes, parceiros e interessados na ferramenta. Foi uma ótima oportunidade para trocar ideias sobre Liferay, conhecer...

As much as Brian wants to stick with System.outs to do debugging, I would go with a proper debugger any day.  Each time I use the IntelliJ debugger, I thank the engineers @ IDEA for putting a fantastically useful debugger into the IDE.   A few days ago, there was a very wierd problem where I had quickly find why a particular data element was causing a Liferay LAR file...

Although Liferays jboss-web.xml is set correctly, JBoss 5.1 is still picking up the older hibernate-validator.jar from the commons/lib folder. The exception coming while starting JBoss is: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.hibernate.validator.ClassValidator.<init>(... To solve this...

 Hi all!   Today, while I was reviewing bug and improvement requests tickets from the community members, I saw a ticket created by Sven Werlen from Savoir-faire Linux, a canadian company.   They needed the asset publisher to be able to access and publish assets from all their communities and organizations and they've...

Hi all: In order to share content accross organizations and communities, we have included a new concept in Liferay 6.0: the global scope.     The Global Scope is a place for data that is common to all organization, communities and users of the portal. It does not have associated pages and can only be accessed from the control panel.   We have...

The JCP Election is just around the corner and Liferay is on the ballot for the first time ever. Being that it is the first time, you may want to know what motivates Liferay's desire for a seat on the JCP?Frankly it's not a political one. It's purely pragmatic! Liferay would like to see things get done, to see the JCP process in the most effective state it can be. Liferay is not new to...

CloudSleuth Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 CloudSleuth is a thought leadership community that brings like-minded professionals together to drive the dialogue on cloud computing toward viable strategies on cloud availability, responsiveness and security—through collective intelligence and advanced cloud performance visualization. Forums and blogs connect...

BSF Connection Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The Bible Study Fellowship Connection is your opportunity to be involved with BSF regardless of whether or not you are currently enrolled in a class. After you register you will be kept up-to-date with the ministry and the prayer needs from around the world. Also, you will have access to the Be Still and Know...

Our friends at Sesame Street continue to raise the bar when it comes to being culturally relevant for kids.  A few months ago, they released Google search parodies, and now, Grover parodies the Old Spice Guy. Enjoy!  

============================== English ===============================  Liferay keeps growing and our office in Madrid is no exception. Because of this we are looking to incorporate 4 new employees for the following positions: Liferay Account Manager Liferay Core Engineer Liferay Support Engineer Liferay QA Engineer If you are a fan of Liferay and...

 While the ability to have all of our official docs in HTML form and indexed is great, in some cases we all prefer a PDF version that can easily be printed or checked while offline. We've always had the PDF version of our guides available but after the redesign they weren't so visible any more, so some of you had been asking about them. As a result we've just applied an small...

A lot of effort is put into keeping Liferay huge source base formatted consistently, what is very important. There is an advance source formatter (ant format-source) that outputs formatting problems and even corrects some for you. However, since the code base is huge, this task may take several minutes to finishes. Another minor issue is that all sources is scanned, so if someone...

The Yellow Affair Region: Finland Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The Yellow Affair is an international sales and distribution company in the media industry who specialise in titles with a unique blend of commercial and specialty content. They offer high quality films and TV-series with a commercial and international appeal for all media windows: theatrical,...

A while back I wrote a post about adding custom tools to the Liferay Velocity context. In 6.0 a change was made such that the behaviour has changed slightly. Now all such tools are plain old beans which must implement an interface. The changes also means that I have a lot less code to write and less wiring to do. Let's see how we'd do it now using exactly the same tool as...

One of the most interesting improvements of Liferay 6 for developers is that the plugin infrastructure has improved considerably. For example, the hook plugins are now much more powerful and allow customizing the platform in a very maintainable way. Also, the old extension environment has been moved inside the plugins SDK as what are known as Ext plugins. After publishing our new...

Over the last year, over 1,000 people have attended Liferay's Symposiums.  We have held Symposiums worldwide to simplify attendance and each has been filled with both technical and business leaders looking for indepth knowledge and collaboration on Liferay technologies.  Last week, our largest audience ever, attended the Liferay West Coast Symposium to witness the launch of...