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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:  ...

You've got a good idea. In fact, it's brilliant. The market is currently lacking XYZ, and you've got just the right product or service that is going to be the first or best to address it.    So, you and a bunch of your hired-hand friends who are equally brilliant start this thing from scratch in your basement. After several months of coding, calls...

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...

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...

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...

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

This article is the second and last in a series of 2 posts on how personalization can be achieved in a portal project. In this post I'll explain how to combine user-specific and shared portlet preferences in one portlet. This will allow portlets to have a common, shared set of preferences and additionally a set of user-defined preferences on top of those shared preferences. ...

This weekend you may notice a couple of small changes to your Liferay.com sign-in experience and I wanted to give you a little background on why we’re making those changes.  As we have been expanding the number of systems available beyond just liferay.com we have strived to provide the best possible user experience.  To that end we will be moving to a Single Sign On...

It's public - Registration for DevCon 2014 (Wed-Thu, 5.-6. Nov) is open. And we're looking for your participation to make it an even bigger success. This year we're going to Darmstadt, just south of Frankfurt. The venue "Darmstadtium" is named after a chemical element that was named in honor of the city where it's first been created - it's one of those very heavy elements (atomic...

Today's JSF JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a Java EE standard technology that enjoys wide support with Java EE application servers including JBoss AS/WildFly, Oracle WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere. In addition, JSF developers benefit from tooling support built-in to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ. Over the years, JSF has received many features and improvments thanks to dedicated JCP...

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and what was the biggest problem you faced? Can you ever learn enough? And how do you keep up with the current trends and new features? A platform as big as Liferay spans several...