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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...

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....

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...