Blogs

Hi all, We just released version 1.4 of Liferay IDE.  Help > Check for updates... is the fastest way if you already have it installed.  If not here is the URL update site: http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/indigo/stable/   (click here for detailed install instructions) I hope to increase the speed at which we push out new versions of the IDE....

Hey there, I'll be in London on Tue, 11. Oct. and would like to test if there's some interest in getting together for a Liferay Community Meeting - no formal stuff, just chatting in a pub or similar. I'd need help finding a location. Best (for me) would be walking distance to Tower Bridge (I'm staying at the southern end of London Bridge) and propose 19:00 as a starting time. ...

This is my first blog entry on Liferay. I was waiting for something newsworthy since as a QA engineer, our view of Liferay can be tunnel vision. Occasionally, we get to go out: attending WCS is case in point. Then I was sent to the Dalian office for six weeks. So what's so interesting? Day 3 at work: Fireworks next door which interrupted work for approximately five to ten...

Episode 4 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Raymond Augé,  Sr. Software Architect at Liferay. We recorded this episode right after Liferay's Westcoast Symposium in the L.A. office. Unfortunately the room has some echo, but the content is well worth it. We spoke about these topics - and probably more: Internet coverage in Northern Ontario Forums, IRC,...

Starting in 6.1 there will be a change in how caches are configured for the portal and plugins. This new mechanism only applies for ehcache caches. Changes to default cache configuration: Configuring caches for clustering is simpler. Instead of having to switch config files in portal.properties, the default Liferay cache configurations will be loaded and automatically...

It's that six dot one bump, make you put yo hands up - Make you put yo hands up, put yo, put yo hands up Welcome to another installment of Community Roundup!  Your source for a digest of the goings-on in the Liferay Community.  I apologize for the delay, I am targeting a one month period, and promise to do better next time!  It is taking about 6 hours per...

I just wanted to say thanks to everybody that attended my talks. I really enjoyed giving them and hope you all got something from them that was helpful! I'll be posting my files/powerpoints (or links to them) soon.

Hola a todos, Ya estoy por aquí de nuevo y como no podía ser de otra manera con buenos propósitos de escribir entradas mucho más a menudo. Temas de los que hablar no me van a faltar en los próximos meses con el lanzamiento de la versión 6.1, el marketplace, el roadmap de las siguientes versiones, ... Estos serán precisamente los temas en torno a los cuales girarán las...

  Episode 3 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Nate Cavanaugh,  Liferay's Director for UI Engineering about AlloyUI, the switch from jQuery We spoke about these topics - and probably more: Liferay's UI history Javascript, Drag&Drop positioning of portlets on page The introduction of jQuery in Liferay and the standardization on it in 5.1 ...

It's a somewhat rare occassion that I get to fuss around with code these days.  This time, it happens to be in assistance of one of our Global Services consultants for his West Coast Symposium workshop. As many of you know, Liferay's Service Builder allows you to completely avoid worrying about the persistence layer, handing your own query and entity caching, etc....

As you have been noticed, the version 6.1 adds a lot of CMS (Document Library) features. The following is a list of these features, not the full list. Capability to manage different document types: basic document, image (Image Gallery is merged into Document Library), video, audio, etc. Providing Dynamic Data List (DDL) and Dynamic Data Mapping (DDM) - see blogs Dynamic...

If you are planning to come to the Westcoast Symposium, use your chance and present your favourite feature or project: You can still submit a Lightning Talk for the WCS! The rules are simple: You get the stage for max. 7 minutes, then the next presenter will take over. It's also ok to finish early - this way we can fit even more talks into one session.  This is a good way...

Over the past several months I've been working on integrating an OSGi framework into Liferay Portal. The reasons for doing so are varied but include solutions to app server/servlet container dependency, library version conflicts, runtime module lifecycle, advanced extensibility, and so on. If you are not familliar with OSGi, I recommend visiting the OSGi web site, and in...

Introduction I recently had the opportunity to launch an Amazon EC2 instance and setup Liferay & MySQL. There were a couple of hurdles that I had to overcome, so I thought I would share the solutions I came up with.   Storage: Ephemeral or EBS? When you launch an RHEL instance on EC2, the disk storage that is provided is a VERY SMALL (7 GB...

Episode 2 of Radio Liferay is out. I'm speaking with Rich Sezov,  Liferay's Knowledge Manager, author of the upcoming book "Liferay in Action" and Alter Ego of "Rich Editor" for those of you who have seen the sevencogs demo setup of Liferay. We've had a few audio quality issues, so please bear with some dropouts or cracks in there, it's only episode 2 and I'm learning the...

  Hi all!  In a recent project I had to add these portlets ("My Workflow Tasks" and "My Submissions") to a normal user page. By default they are shown in the control panel, but depending on your project needs you may want to use them elsewhere. Here are the steps you need to achieve this easily.   Basically you need three...

By popular demand, below is a technical description and source code of the new Community Activity Map that I posted a couple of weeks ago. Overview I started on this back in December 2010 when we were refreshing the community landing page.  Having a list of recent issues, and announcements is all well and good, but there is so much more happening in our worldwide...

Let's have another community meeting - this time I'll be able to speak the local language: 5. September, 19:00 in Hamburg, "Abaton Kneipe", Grindelhof, close to the university. Please comment here if you'd like to come. Any short term emergency changes will also be communicated on twitter. Und auf deutsch: Das nächste Community-Treffen findet statt in der Abaton-Kneipe im...

To continue a recent string of theme related posts, I'm going to add another on the recently added feature allowing addition of advanced input controls and behaviors to theme settings. Themes are the whip cream that bring flavour and sweetness to our portal fruit salads. Without beautiful and clever theme designs our fruit salad may taste healthy but can be bland and leave us...

I'll be running a workshop at Liferay WCS on Backend Integrations in September, and also presenting at the first Jenkins User Conference (JUC) in October where Liferay is a sponsor.    Liferay WCS I ran a similar "Backend Integrations" workshop at the Liferay ECS last spring, and thanks to the feedback from attendees, we hope to have a more streamlined workshop (and...