Blogs

Ippon Technologies Region: France Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Ippon Technologies is a specialized consulting and development company on distributed architectures such as J2EE and SOA. Their consultants design, develop and deploy high-value and critical applications with specific requirements for performance and quality. Ippon Technologies implements...

Societe Generale Region: France Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Societe Generale offers worldwide financial services that include account monitoring, cash centralization, and payment optimization.  

Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com, wrote a guest post for TechCrunch entitled "The Facebook Imperative." In it, Mark discusses the needs for increased collaboration for the enterprise and also notes how a the more traditional enterprise software (Lotus Notes, Sharepoint, etc.) hasn't really changed since it's inception.  Sure there are add-ons and "socially" things you...

According to the H, Oracle has quietly discontinued OpenSSO Express, the community version of OpenSSO previously made available by Sun. It'd be sensationalistic to make any wide-sweeping generalizations about Oracle's approach to open source from a single incident, but one thing clearly illustrated is that open source software uniquely mitigates risks for its users. Had OpenSSO been...

One of the nice, collaborative features in blogs these days is the ability to leave comments.  But what if you, on your blog, are trying to comment about something somebody else blogged about?  Well, you would use some kind of linkback that would refer to the other blog, and leaves a comment on their blog that you were there. Previously, we implemented trackbacks as a...

Just Keep Moving Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal EE 4.4 By the makers of Tylenol, the Keep Moving Program helps you create a wellness experience that focuses on exercise, nutrition, and health, active living. Whether you choose to participate for 15 minutes or an hour per day, every small step may help reduce mild to moderate arthritis pain. A desire...

SMU Cox School of Business Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Since 1920, the SMU Cox School of Business has equipped students with the skills, knowledge and experience they need to succeed in business. Major publications—including BusinessWeek, The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report and The Wall Street Journal—rank SMU...

There has been a lot of work trying to minimize the use of the ext environment to keep your site more maintainable and easier to customize. Here are some tips that has helped me keep my ext small and more maintainable/manageable which will also make upgrades more smooth.   Move anything possible in ext to hooks. 1. Do you need to override a *ServiceImpl.java class?...

Hello everyone, Today ends my first week at Liferay so I guess I should introduce myself officially.  I joined Liferay as a software engineer and will lead the effort for official IDE tooling from Liferay.  Previously, I worked for Genuitec, LLC in Dallas, TX, who makes the MyEclipse IDE product.  For over 5 years I was a senior developer for MyEclipse and have been...

Dankook University Region: Korea Version: Liferay Portal 5.1 Dankook University is the first private university ever established after Korea gained independence in 1947. The progressive spirit behind the founding of Dankook University still leads the university today as it continues to write the history of higher education in Korea. DKU now features 20...

Evimed Online GmbH Region: Germany Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Evimed Online GmbH offers Internet-based information services and products that enable physicians to access oncology treatment guidelines, the latest research findings and ongoing studies faster and easier. Evimed's goal is to contribute evidence-based information services in order to improve...

I believe in the power of technology to bring people together.  Although our society lives in more physical isolation than 20 years ago, I think that we are seeing people remove those barriers through self-expression online via Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, Yelp, and on and on.  It is powerful to watch people express themselves. Social media breaks down barriors by allowing the...

Hola, ¿qué tal? Region: Spain Version: Liferay Portal 5.1 Hola, ¿qué tal? is the Spanish course 2.0 which adapts to any student’s needs offering freedom of timetables, place and learning rhythm with Spanish learning material and Spanish online exercises. Hola, ¿qué tal? is the Spanish course online guaranteed by the Instituto Cervantes to learn spanish at...

SpeakEnergy Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 SpeakEnergy is a company focused on improving the energy efficiency of individuals by involving them in online communities. SpeakEnergy works towards uniting those who want to use energy sources more efficiently, including renewable energy sources; and also to better inform others of the choices they...

This is my first blog and I am extremely happy that I created Liferay wallpapers and posting as my first blog. I took lot of patience in completing this and as a result I guess it came good . I am calling this as Ray of Life and Liferay Blossom ( people do excuse me for the lack of better names). These pictures includes a wide range of resolutions for different ratios. Ray of Life ...

Hi everyone, After introducing our goals and objectives for Liferay 6 regarding accessibility, I just wanted to highlight some of the improvements we have done lately. There have been a lot of people involved (Juan, Sergio, Eduardo, Nate, Jorge, Brian,...), so I won't detail what everyone did, but just go through some of the most interesting improvements: ...

As the 2010 Winter Olympics are just a few hours away I started to think about how much computers and information technology play a pivotal role in sports today. It seems every major sport (MLB, NBA, NFL and the NHL) is using a portal to disseminate information about their organization, their teams and their players. Behind the...

Liferay Portal 6 (code name: Bunyan) The next version of Liferay Portal internally code named Bunyan, will be released as Liferay Portal 6.  Previously the team had considered naming the version 5.3 as a follow on to Liferay Portal 5.2  However, after review of the set of features and the future development strategy for our customers and community, it was...

Hello to everyone in the Liferay community and a belated Happy New Year. I trust January has been filled with new opportunities and renewed energy for all of us after the holiday break. I've gotten in the habit of writing an annual year-in-review entry but am a little behind on 2009. So many good things are happening here at Liferay that it's hard to keep up! We recently put...

 A couple of weeks ago, Paul Hinz, Liferay's Chief Marketing Officer, asked me for my thoughts about what the future of portals holds.  I provided a long, drawn-out response which, when boiled down to its essence, comes back to consolidation.   Consolidation of the information that employees and users needs in a single online experience.   Consolidation of data...