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Liferay for your ears: Episode 9 of Radio Liferay is another premier: This marks the first recording with more than one interviewee, as well as the first non-Liferay Employees. I used the opportunity during the european symposium to get together with Corné Aussems, Maarten van Heiningen, Milen Dyankov and  Tomáš Polešovský, four Community Contributors. Part of my...

You might be already aware of that, but for the others - Liferay 6.1 will have WYSIWYG editors for Wiki Creole and BBCode. You may use the first one in order to create Wiki pages and the second one - to write messages in Message boards. Actually, you can try Wiki editor right now - it was backported to 6.0 and it is already available on Liferay site (edit or create a new...

Writing is something I've been doing for a long time. I mean, a long time--since I was something like 12 years old. To give you a piece of perspective on this (without giving away my age), I was 12 years old in the 1980s. Since then, a lot of things have changed with regard to writing: word usage (I still by default write *worshipped* and *kidnapped*), the process (mindmapping...

Liferay for your ears: Episode 8 is a premiere in this program: Brian Chan, Liferay's founder and Chief Software Architect, is the first that I didn't record in a conversation: Instead this is a recording from Brian's closing keynote at the European Symposium. I had originally planned to record an episode with Brian, but during this keynote he already answered 80% of what I had on my...

In brief, OpenSearch allows publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation. Federated search is a simultaneous search of multiple online databases or web resources, and it is an emerging feature of automated, web-based library and information retrieval systems. The portal implemented federated search based on OpenSearch standard. Abstracted from...

Many of you are probably aware that Liferay version 6.0 supports several scripting languages in a variety of contexts including portlet plugins, Kaleo workflows, and the Script Console in the Server Administration section of the Control Panel.  In all of these contexts, there are challenges when working with scripts, such as logging and debugging.   ...

Liferay for your ears: Episode 7 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Julio Camarero, Software Engineer in Liferay's spanish office. As a certified Legend he's well known in the forums here, and with regards to this status the highest ranking Liferay-Employee recorded until today. We recorded this episode on very short notice when we met in our german office back in...

    I'm on site these last days and one of my tasks was to execute some load testing and monitor a Liferay instance hosted in a network accessed only via SSH port. No other port except 22 and 80 was open. So after almost 2 days struggling with several different configurations I was able to monitor a remote instance of Liferay through JMX+RMI over SSH tunneling. I had...

Episode 6 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Aaron Delani, UI Software Engineer at Liferay. This is another episode recorded while I was in L.A for the annual Westcoast symposium. Thanks again to everybody there for the hospitality.  We spoke about these topics - and probably more: Photoshop, Gimp, InDesign and other graphical editing tools Aaron's...

Liferay has long had the ability to embed portlets in themes. This is convenient for implementors to get highly functional design into the look and feel of a site. In my years at Liferay I've seen and heard many different attempts at doing this with various levels of success. There are a number of things to consider when embedding portlets in the theme and the same method does...

In addition to the annual "Partner of the Year" award, this year Liferay recognized its partners for their community achievements, awarding the Community Excellence Award.  We consider partners a valuable part of our community (just like we do with "regular" liferay.com denizens, Liferay's employees, and Liferay customers), and wanted to recognize their participation, independent...

  Spring's dependency injection framework is the picture of ubiquity in the java world. As such it aims to drive developers toward declarative, component driven design and lose coupling. But, it is largely a static container. The class space is flat and once started there is little means for dynamic change.   OSGi is "the"...

Episode 5 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Cynthia Wilburn,  Project Manager at Liferay, the engineering group's professional nag (short: Catherder) and single wringable neck for release dates. We recorded this episode right after Liferay's Westcoast Symposium in the L.A. office in the same room as the last episode with Ray - so we'll have the same echo. I hope you...

Liferay is proud to announce the Liferay 6.1 CE Beta release!  The Liferay product and engineering teams, in close concert with our awesome community, have spent many months getting the 6.1 release ready, and this is one of the final builds before it will be generally available.  We are making this release in advance of the 6.1 GA release, in order to ferret out last minute...

I'm excited to announce that Liferay has been invited to speak at next week's Gartner Symposium ITXPO at the Walt Disney World Dolphin.  I will be making the trip to Orlando to deliver a presentation topic that is dear to all of our hearts -- How to Maximize Your Portal Value Without Breaking Your Budget.  As evidenced by Liferay's continued, year-over-year growth, we know a...

I've taken to using github.com's gist service quite alot recently and so I wanted to just spread the word that there are some handy nuggets appearing there. Here's the url https://gist.github.com/rotty3000. Examples: list open and accessible sites (that a user could join, or may already be part of) a simple localization hook embed navigation tag...

Update: The Meetup will take place at Berliner 109 on Monday, October 17, at 18:00!  This is a couple of minutes walk east, from the Symposium venue (Sheraton Offenbach Hotel). If you are attending this year's European Symposium next week in Frankfurt, on Monday evening (after the pre-symposium training) Liferay is hosting a community meetup.  This will be a free...

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as...

Imagine serveral git branches and sub-braches, each with several commits. Although most git UI clients can display a nice branch tree view, it might be not so easy to get an overview at once: some branches start few days/weeks ago and you have to scroll and search to get all info. I searched for a way to display just branch tree leafs, i.e. to hide all inner commits. to...

As you look back on the Liferay Community, you can see many innovative contributions and outstanding achievements by our wider community of enthusiasts, users, customers, partners, and employees.  You can also see a large ball of abused and ignored bug reports, connected to us by a big chain, limiting the utility of the reporting system and efficiency of software development on...