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Just a quick note Liferay IDE users who are wanting to upgrade to Eclipse Indigo.  At the moment the stable version of LIferay (1.2.3) does not support Eclipse Indigo.  However, the next version of Liferay IDE (1.3) that is due to be out next month does support Indigo.  If you want to upgrade to Eclipse Indigo now and continue to use Liferay IDE you will need to install...

Loosely speaking, a newsroom is the place where journalists—reporters, editors, and producers, along with other staffers—work to gather news to be published in a newspaper or magazine or broadcast on television, cable or radio.  As you have known already, Liferay Portal is an enterprise web platform for building business solutions that deliver immediate results and long-term...

This is the first entry on my Liferay blog so, first of all, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Miguel Pastor and I have only been working four months in Liferay (since March 2011) but I'm very happy to be part of this incredible team. In my first blog entry I would like to describe the general ideas of my first "contribution": The new Creole Parser infrastructure....

LOS ANGELES – Liferay, primer suministrador mundial de plataformas web corporativas Open Source, ha anunciado que Liferay Portal está siendo traducido a más de 40 idiomas. En respuesta a la creciente demanda de sus productos, Liferay ha decidido utilizar Pootle, una herramienta web open source, para que los voluntarios de la comunidad Liferay puedan crear y administrar las...

Greetings everyone.  There has been a lot going on in the Liferay Training department and I wanted to give you a quick update of what we’ve been up to and what’s coming up in the next couple months.    In May, we offered training in conjunction with our East Coast Symposium.   This was the first time that we’ve done this, but based on the feedback of...

We recently posted a description of our trademark policy to help the community more easily understand the proper use of Liferay trademarks. There are two categories of use defined within the policy: Permitted Use and Restricted Use. Permitted Use is available for use cases when applied in manners described below and does not require approval from Liferay, Inc. Restricted Use cases, on...

We just integrated our Chat portlet with Jabber! This means portal users can now choose their preferred desktop chat client (such as Pidgin, Trillian or Adium) to chat with other users, here's an interesting conversation between me and Eduardo: The beta version is in plugins trunk and will be available on 6.1. More details on installation and setup can be found here:...

Many people ask us frequently, is liferay accessible? Does it validate level AA of [FILL_WITH_YOUR_ACCESSIBILITY_STANDARD_HERE]? (It could be WCAG1.0, WCAG2.0, Section 508, RGAA...) And it is not easy to answer, because Liferay usually is just the tool for building your websites, and even though Liferay will help you to achieve any accessibility certification, the final...

MADRID--Liferay España, filial del primer suministrador mundial de plataformas Web corporativas Open Source, organiza el próximo 30 de junio en Sevilla un encuentro con empresas y usuarios de Andalucía para presentar las nuevas funcionalidades de Liferay Portal 6. El evento, convocado conjuntamente con la consultora everis, permitirá conocer de primera mano las características y...

8 Days to the official start of summer in the northern hemisphere.  2 days until the France Symposium.  That sounds like a good reason for another community roundup!  Hope everyone has a safe and fun summer season.  I have a love/hate relationship with it.  I love the summer season, but it means that from now on, the days will grow increasingly shorter and...

The past couple of years I've seen many examples of using Liferay's built-in JSON services in various ways.  The architecture and syntax of this feature has undergone several refinements in the past few versions, so the documentation/examples you can find via a website search are usually slightly wrong and misleading.  Recently I saw this thread come alive and decided to sit...

After months of preparation, careful planning, Liferay Hungary Kft, finally hosted its first annual Hungary Symposium with over 100 attendees who were at awe with the new offerings Liferay has to provide. Between Igor Spasic' presentation on Sandbox and Julio Camarero's endless list of features and benefits of Liferay 6.1 EE attendees had their share of information on why to go EE and...

Today we have created the Liferay Portal project at translate.liferay.com As part of our effort of improving the Liferay translation process, some time ago we set up a Pootle site and created translation projects for the most important plugins. Now, the Liferay Portal project, which contains all literals shown by Liferay 6.1, is available for contributors. 39 languages, 5515...

Some news regarding JSON serialization and exposing service API as JSON web services... We have a new JSON serialization tool that we call 'loose serialization'. It automatically serializes any object into JSON string, just with a single call. There are some additional features, like include/exclude hints, annotations, transformers... that developer may use to fine-tune JSON...

Bonjour, the swedish community meeting is just over and the french symposium is just around the corner. Nevertheless: I'll be in Paris in the week before the symposium, and I'd like to meet people there. Save the date and spread the word: I'm aiming at Monday, 6. June, 19:00, but this is not completely fixed yet (see update below for comment). Also, the location...

I finally got around to watching the film, Welcome To Macintosh. I thought it was hilarious, whether you are an Apple fanboy, a staunch Windows user, or Linux freak (like me). I thought this ex-Apple engineer was the funniest. He used to be with Apple pretty much from the start, and left before Apple's latest boom in the 2000's. He worked on their OS team, worked on Quicktime, and the...

Bryan recently blogged about the new site design and how Liferay.com is displaying a mobile formatted website for different types of devices (go ahead and test it out, hop into any browser and resize the page as small as it can go). Today I want to discuss a bit how we achieved this from a technical level. This is one of the most common questions I not only got from people who...

Wow, has it really been one month since my last roundup?  Apologies!  As usual, there are many moving parts to the World of Liferay and I spend a lot of time trying to keep up with it all, and sometimes things drop off the radar.  But they always come back, thanks to my handy organizer (aka TextWrangler).  We've been very busy here in the Liferay Community, and it...

Hi everyone, Having worked with Liferay, you are probably well aware of the useful ThemeDisplay. The ThemeDisplay object can be accessed through javascript as well - a global variable called themeDisplay. While you don't have as much information on the javascript version of themeDisplay, you can still get some very useful information from the object. Check it out yourself by logging...

  Our Liferay East Coast Symposium was held last week outside Washington D.C., doubling the size of last year's ECS.  The event was designed to support community members, prospective Liferay customers and existing Liferay EE administrators / developers / business managers.  With such a diverse audience, several new activities were added to ECS to expand...