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Liferay for your ears - This time I sat together with Alexander Chow and Sergio González. Both are Liferay Core Engineers. Alex is "Employee number 8, UK employee number 1 (which gives away his location) and Liferay-Mac-User number 1".  Sergio is Spain's employee number 6. Both have extensively cooperated in the new Document Library for Liferay 6.1 - now called Media Library -...

I recently did a talk at 1DevDay Detroit (http://1devdaydetroit.com) on Open Source and the Community. It was a great event and if you live in the greater Detroit (MI/OH) area, I'd recommend you look into attending next year. Lots of great sessions and wonderful attendees. Here are the slides from that presentation. /documents/5075192/11538079/1DevDay+-+Open+Source.pdf   ...

Liferay for your ears - Meeting Michael Han, Liferay's Vice President of Operations, at the european symposium, I used the opportunity to record an episode on some of his working areas, namely security and performance. He gives some good background on these issues. Among other topics, we spoke about: His background, how he came to Liferay and what he's mainly working on ...

Ever wanted to use a rich text editor (RTE) such as the CK Editor in your custom portlet? Implementing an RTE in your view is (almost) as simple as using a jsp-tag: <aui:field-wrapper label="description">     <liferay-ui:input-editor name="descriptionEditor" toolbarSet="liferay-article" initMethod="initEditor" width="200" />   ...

"Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code." - Author Unknown Here we go again.  Once again I have failed to live up to my promises of a once-a-month roundup, and for that I apologize! It's been a very busy and exciting 6 weeks in our community, so I am here to give you a digest of the latest coolness that is the Liferay Community.  So please keep arms...

Have you ever wondered about the number of deployments and server restarts you do per day ? For example, a single deployment takes 30 seconds and a server restart takes 1 minute (and these numbers are actually very optimistic).  For a typical scenario of 7 deployments and 2 server restarts per hour you need 60 re-deployments and 20 server  restarts per day. That adds up to...

Liferay Portal Systems Development Build dynamic, content-rich and social systems on top of Liferay Use Liferay tools (CMS, WCM, collaborative API and social API) to create your own Web sites and WAP sites with hands-on examples Customize Liferay portal using the JSR-286 portlets, hooks, ext plugins, themes, layout templates, webs plugins and diverse portlet bridges...

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...