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Welcome to Boston Liferay is excited to be in Boston this October for the Liferay Symposium North America. This year’s Back Bay venue captures the historic beauty of Bean Town as well as reflecting its modern cityscape.  Boston à l'heure bleue by Manu_H is licensed under CC BY 2.0. © 2010, E. Huybrechts. ...

Tomorrow 4pm CEST I'm going to participate in the dev.life event series, and I give you 4 fine reasons to attend, or check out the recording later. You can learn how can you develop staging and export/import support for your plugin You can see how extremely easy it is to develop that You will see how can the staging UI be customized, how can it be more simple ...

In this blog we will configure OpenAM as Identity provider and Liferay as Service Provider using SAML 2.0. Follow below steps : Download OpenAM 11.0.0 war file from https://backstage.forgerock.com/#/downloads Deploy the war file in Tomcat (Lets say Port 8081). Increase heap and param space. Start the server and hit...

As you might know Liferay comes bundled with Vaadin. Now that Vaadin 7.3 is out as of today, it is perfect time to update your Vaadin portlet. Vaadin 7.3 is the largest release since Vaadin 7 in February 2013. Its largest enhancement is a parameter driven look and feel, powered by Sass and CSS3. With just a few parameters you can completely change the look and feel from iOS6 round to...

The word is out in Twitter, we have released the first development milestone release of Liferay 7. This is a call for really adventurous developers to try it out and give us your feedback. Here are the answers to the questions you may have about the release.   So… is Liferay 7 close to being released? Nope. Our current thinking is that Liferay 7 will be released...

As many of you may have read, Yahoo is immediately stopping development on the YUI library. This decision, while it will have a significant impact, is not news to us. Given our close relationship with the YUI team, we knew this was coming, and have been discussing for a couple of months different plans of action. In the spirit of transparency, I do want to say that we don't...

Overview The Liferay Portal user session timeout is defined by the session timeout value. The article outlines potential solutions for configuring the user session timeout (see Solutions below). Background The session timeout is loaded by method "checkWebSettings" in Liferay Portal Java class  com.liferay.portal.servlet.MainServlet. The session timeout property...

This article accompanies the dev.life session "Ridiculously simple plugins" hosted today (26. Aug, 16:00 CEST, 14:00 UTC) by me. The session is broadcasted on youtube and recording will be available (and linked here) after the session. The purpose of this session is to demonstrate that - given the proper architecture - you can extend Portal Applications within...

We were very happy to have received the Liferay Marketplace award for the best Free Opensource portlet for 2014 . This was a huge thing for us not only because Vaadin.com itself uses the Tori forum portlet as its main discussion board, but also because Tori has shown us how awesome a combination Vaadin and Liferay really are together! With the help of Vaadin you're able to...

Life consists of all kinds of experiences. Some experiences are common, and we can go through them every day. Having a tasty meal. Sitting in traffic. Chatting with friends. Watching a good movie. These kinds of moments make up 97% of our lives. We don't think too much about these moments, they just happen. Then there are those other experiences. The first day at a new job. The...

Today Liferay announced the winners of the 2014 Liferay Marketplace App Contest! This year, we were super excited to see what our community could dream up, and you did not disappoint. The review team witnessed an unmistakeable and significant increase in overall app quality this year, so it was even more difficult to pick the winners. A big thank you goes to each of you who took the...

Hi guys Most of the time I need to embed a Web Content on the theme that I develop. To solve this I usually insert a Web Content Portlet using the following code: #set ($VOID = $velocityPortletPreferences.setValue('groupId', $themeDisplay.getCompanyGroupId().toString())) #set ($VOID = $velocityPortletPreferences.setValue('articleId', $webContentID)) #set ($VOID =...

I've heard that you can do some really cool stuff in Web Content (check out James's and Ray's blogs) but haven't gotten around to tinkering with that myself.  Here is a fun little experiment with that, it grabs a Chuck Norris joke from a REST API, all from inside of a Web Content template.     And here is the code for the Web Content Template: ...

The customer is always right. If you've been around the American marketplace long enough, you should be familiar with the phrase. It's the idea upon which the best restaurants and companies look to pride themselves to ensure all patrons are treated with utmost care and respect, and when entangled in a complaint, to side reasonably with the customer. This heavy emphasis on serving...

  Radio Liferay is back with a repeat guest, James Falkner, Liferay's Community Manager. Like last year, symposium season is about to start (even though we already had some events earlier this year...). And there's something new, for the nerds and software craftsmen among you. We talked about The upcoming events, how to tell them apart and the target audience. In...

I am sure most of you already know we are members of the OSGi Alliance, and we are trying to get involved as much as we can. Our next step is to host a face to face during the 9th, 10th and 11th of September here at the Liferay Spain office. But not only that, Peter Kriens has kindly accepted my proposal to talk about OSGi and the enRoute initiative in a public talk (seats...

Liferay hold many events throughout the year (10+ this year alone), featuring keynotes, workshops, expert speakers, onsite and offsite events, and multiple venues around the world. The data associated with past, current, and future events includes huge agendas, many speakers, rooms, activities, maps, locations, analytics during the event, and much more. Finding an effective way to...

 \o/ Radio Liferay is back. A while ago I talked with Juan Fernandez and Ivica Čardić about an exciting project they're collaborating on: Liferay Cloud Services. "What's this?" you ask? Well, good that you're asking, because here's the explanation. It's all about helping you monitor the health of your Liferay Installation, keeping an eye on the installed fixpacks (if you're using...

“If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?” -Charlie Brooker, The Guardian Daniel Kaluuya and Jessica Brown Findlay in Channel 4’s Black Mirror.   I recently discovered the marvelously provocative British drama Black Mirror, written and conceived by Charlie Brooker. Every episode features a different...

Here's a sneak peek at Liferay Screens Beta in the Xcode environment. Liferay Screens are basically mobile widgets that simplify development of mobile apps with Liferay as the backend. More info here on GitHub: https://github.com/liferay/liferay-mobile-widgets/blob/master/README.md Youtube Preview: http://youtu.be/DAhlr5VgEi8