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If you haven’t heard the news yet, Liferay has been named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals for the fifth year in a row, and we’ve placed second only to IBM—and well ahead of SAP, Microsoft, and Oracle. We’re really excited about our placement in this year’s report, and so are our partners and customers. At our annual user conference, many people shared that...

A community challenge for you Liferay's worldwide conferences generate quite a bit of data, and I am challenging the community: Take this data, and do something more interesting than a boring list of speakers and rooms. Get creative with the data (it's super-easy to digest, see the example code from my first post). Have some fun and show us how creative you can get! What's In...

It was great to participate in the Liferay North American Symposium this year. With hundreds of Liferay users (customers, partners, community members...) and dozens of presentations, it was not only a huge success but also a great opportunity to share user experiences and get your feedback. North American Symposium is over, but Liferay World Tour 2014 is not! There are still ...

Liferay  have different types of roles for user. So whenever we develop portlet application we may get need to fetch user roles.   The following article will give you more about Liferay Roles   http://www.liferaysavvy.com/2014/03/liferay-building-blocks.html   Generally we have following...

At Liferay's North American Symposium, I announced the immediate availability of a new website we've developed specifically for those who use Liferay and write code on its platform. We call this site the Liferay Developer Network. This site is the new home for Liferay's documentation and, by the time it gets out of beta, Liferay's community pages. After receiving good feedback...

During last Liferay North America symposium in Boston, I had the opportunity to attend to Máté's interesting presentation (Best Practices for Using Staging in Liferay 6.2). I have always been fascinated by this complex feature in Liferay and I have spent hours "struggling" with it in the past years while helping companies implementing and using it. Remote publishing has been...

On last entry I made a quick overview over the proposed solution for the "problem" of building an analytics platform within the Liferay platform. Along this entry I will go deeper into the log data structure, I will present the Apache Kakfa project and we will analyse how we can connect Liferay and Kafka each other. As a quickly reminder, I previously said that a log...

Yesterday I was talking at the Liferay North America symposium here in Boston about how you can get more value of all the data you already (even if you are not aware you already own it). It has been the first time I speak at the North America event so it has been really exciting for me (in addition, the put my talk on the big room :) To be honest I am not sure about how the talk...

     Sync Beta 3.0 is out!     We are very close to release Sync 3.0 and need your feedback! We have made a complete UI revamp since the last version, take a look at the screenshots bellow:                            ...

Intro A lot of developers will probably know this feeling: you've just returned from a conference and seen lots of exciting new technologies and now you can't wait to try them out! For me one such moment and technology was Devoxx 2013 and seeing an AngularJS talk by Igor Minar and Misko Hevery. The speed and ease of development appealed very much to me, but I was a bit hesitant...

The Vaadin 7 Control Panel is a custom control panel designed to manage the shared Vaadin environment in Liferay. What is the shared Vaadin environment?  It is one of two modes1 for creating Vaadin portlets and refers to the shared Vaadin environment hosted within the ROOT Liferay web application (under Vaadin 6, the shared Vaadin environment was the only supported...

  Throughout history, knowledge and the ability to apply that knowledge to practical use has been of highest value to any organization. As one of the leading trainers on the Liferay Support Team, I have learned that there are certain people who will get the most out of one of my training sessions. These are the people that tend to improve at their jobs and have higher...

At this year's Spain Symposium and North America Symposium (which begins in about 294,682 seconds from now), I'm going to be holding a session on 21 Ridiculously Simple Ways to Contribute to the Liferay Community. In a related development, I've recently heard from several of you recently that you'd missed some interesting news items that happened, and didn't know how best to...

It’s less than a week left until Liferay North America Symposium (NAS), the first of a series of events where we’ll have the chance to first-hand explain to our users what we’ve been working on this year. In particular, workshops will give us the opportunity to go deeper in some of our most popular features, as we will have the time to review and solve some real use cases. In...

On September 26, 2014 Liferay released the 2nd Milestone of Liferay Faces 4.2.0: Liferay Faces 4.2.0-m2 JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 Release Notes All New Showcase The Liferay Faces Showcase has is hosted at www.liferayfaces.org and features a suite of new Java-based JSF components, many of which...

Connection is one of the most important ways to reach your customer. It creates comfort and ultimately trust. I’ve observed that there are generally three types of people who connect well: the Talker, the Asker, and the Engager. These are people who can easily keep the conversation going; with these people there are rarely moments of awkward silence. They are great at creating a...

Recently, Apple announced the arrival of the Apple Watch, their latest product in the wearable tech market. This is big news because, well, it's Apple, but also because it had been several years since Apple gave us anything beyond their typical iPhone and iPad upgrades. Questions from the media about whether it can still create new products post-Steve Jobs have been answered,...

This blog is part of a series of entries documenting how we are using iBeacons and Liferay to better engage our audiences at events throughout the year. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Update: Check out my new eBook! Finding Your Way Around iBeacons for Event Marketing. Download the eBook In Part 1 I introduced the concept of using iBeacons for Audience Engagement and reviewed...

Since my last blog post, I have gotten quite a few emails and questions about what the future of front end engineering looks like now that Yahoo has ended new development on YUI. What I'd like to cover here is a general overview of where we've decided to go and the reasoning behind the direction. After much thought and discussion, we've decided that AlloyUI 3 will be our final...

Our most recent update to Social Office EE for Liferay Portal 6.2 was uploaded to Liferay Marketplace today. Social Office 3.1 EE provides several improvements over version 3.0 EE, released earlier in the year. You can view the changelog here to get a complete list of fixes and enhancements, but here’s a few of my favorite:   Improved Dockbar Notifications:  ...