Blogs

Well, I'm back in our offices in Asia to help our sales folks and to sign some partnerships with local system integrators.  This has been a rather interesting trip, especially learning some of the different ways Chinese businesses operate and some of their rather unique requirements. Some of my observations: 1) During the sales cycle, Chinese customers tend to ask for far...

A progress bar is one of the most useful widgets for a user interface when the user can perform lengthy tasks. Unfortunately, while it's a widget very often found in desktop applications it's not so common in web applications. The reason for this is that it's not so obvious how to implement them. In fact, not so many years ago I remember saying to a customer that it was not possible...

Before and after the Novell had turned your Collaborative portlets open source I worked with it to integrate with Liferay. The Collaborative portlets are another frontend to access the Groupwise Collaborative server, it is a very simple interface, you can view your email or your calendar appointments, add or update a new one it's not possible, but it's very helpful when your work ...

Singapore.  Liferay and Intalio, our BPMS partner company, will jointly host a cocktail on July 8th, 630pm at the Hilton on Orchard.  Intalio will demonstrate the Intalio Business Process Platform which Liferay is a key component of.  Liferay will provide strategic insights into our latest 5.0 release amidst the fast-changing global portal market and our recent strategic...

Hi everyone! It's been some time since I've last put out a blog entry; So I thought it would be an appropriate time to give everyone a little bit of an update into whats going on with Liferay and our QA testing process. In the past few months from when I last posted we were at 191 automated tests, as I write we've just about crested 400 fully automated tests testing various components...

Liferay is a big application, made up of thousands of files. That's not the kind of typical, everyday application that your system is used to dealing with. Everywhere I've worked (including Liferay), I've made a point of advocating to the IT department that a developer needs both a different kind of machine and a different kind of configuration than the regular worker. Thankfully,...

Firefox 3 中有个插件 User Agent Swither 可以切换到其他浏览器，结合firebug调试css、js。在各浏览器水火不容的今天这个功能显得非常有用～

Several weeks ago we announced the compatibility of Liferay 5 with the final draft of the spec. and now it's been declared officially final. Thanks go to Stefan, the spec lead, for all his hard work during the last weeks dealing with legal and administrative stuff to make this possible. I recommend you all to download and read the spec, because it has many interesting additions:...

If you’re just getting involved with Liferay, you may have come across an interesting portlet called the asset publisher.  There are so many different ways to configure this portlet so that it displays content differently. I’ll try to show you how to configure the asset publisher so that it looks more like a familiar real world example.  Here’s a screenshot of a...

Here's a good story for a Friday: I'm running around today opening windows because it's hot, but not so hot as to turn on the air conditioner. I'm a little frustrated trying to get something to work, and so I want to get back to it. Because of this, I'm racing around the house trying to get the windows open as fast as possible. Last room to enter is my three year-old daughter's room,...

          For my latest task I’ve been looking into re-implementing the persistence layer of Liferay permissions to authenticate users and obtain authorization data from a client identity and access management engine. In the process I thought I’d explain a little bit about the details of Liferay permissions and in this first post more...

I've been playing around with Liferay portal version 5.0.1 and have found some new features that make it easy to create a community driven website.  When I hear good news, I just wanna share it, so here it is.  Enjoy! Part 1.1 is meant for beginner Liferayers to get familiar with some of the cool out of the box settings Liferay portal has that may help you in other projects....

Want to tune Liferay for better performance? There are several things that you can do. There is no magic wand that turbo charges your web app. There is this wiki article which has some properties you can set: http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Performance   But in the end, Liferay is a Java web application that runs in the JVM. Hence, you have to do some JVM tuning. Java...

Updated: 11/28/08 Screenshots for the latest Desktop theme updated for Liferay 5.2.x.       You can download the theme here (change .zip to .war)   It'd be nice to have a theme that's different than a traditional theme which also has cool animation effects to help keep things fun and interesting.  These ideas resulted in the new...

The premier Site-Specific Browser that brings Liferay to your Desktop, just kidding... http://bubbleshq.com/scripts/169/liferay  Another thing is how to make a notifier icon here for chat portlet, just like http://bubbleshq.com/scripts/167/facebook---just-chatting   把liferay放到桌面，方便使用。

Just wanted to let you know that the Quickstart Guide (upon which the below video is based) is now available! You can grab it at the Community landing page: http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community. It's a lot easier to follow the doc than the video. :-)

In the process of migrating the Document Publisher portlet from LRP 4.4.2 to 5.0.1 one of the problems I have found is that in LRP 5.0.1 the URLs for actions and renders in some cases, like URLs generated from Javascript, are escaped so they won't work anymore because the params could not be parsed correctly from the URL. To solve it you need to add to the "portletl.xml" file: ...

I am working right now in creating a new portlet por publishing documents (DocBook, XML Framemaker, Javadoc) so you can view them inside a Liferay portlet add comments the document section, access the document trough a tree index and other features. In order to implement it we have decided to start from the Document Library (DL) portlet and add new operations over the folder and files...

I just wanted to drop a couple of notes about the auto-save that I didn't mention before.... 1. I didn't do the bulk of the workThat honor goes to Jonathan Neal. Bchan did a lot and I made a couple of javascript changes and tweaks, but the work load credit goes to Jon for actually laying the foundation and getting it done. Go hit up his wall and tell him great job :) 2. There was...