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Alberto Montero | Mar 13, 2008 7:58 AM

Hi, I'm Alberto Montero, one of the latest incorporations to Liferay staff. Although sometime hard, it's allways exciting to start a new job, with lots of new things to learn and to do. My work...

Ivan Cheung | Mar 11, 2008 7:24 AM

Recently I set up a clustered environment using three servers, two with liferay-tomcat-4.4.2 bundle and one with apache 2.2 http server. Here are my steps: STEP 1: Download and install the...

Jorge Ferrer | Mar 7, 2008 6:40 PM

Up until now the editor area of FCKEditor did not always correctly reflect the look&feel that the contents were going to have when published. The reason was that the theme CSS was not being applied...

Jorge Ferrer | Mar 4, 2008 5:51 PM

We've been waiting for this moment for a long time. I've received this question by email, in person and through the message boards, lots of times... when will the Portlet 2.0 spec be ready?....

Jorge Ferrer | Mar 2, 2008 6:01 PM

I just came across a blog post with an example on how to create a drag & drop effect using jQuery UI. Looking at the code it surprises how easy it is. The whole JavaScript is around 17 lines of...

Ray Augé | Mar 1, 2008 1:53 AM

(Out of Date, but still mostly relevant, has many improvements though) Well finally it's in trunk... The sponsored staging enhancements (workflow) (which I've dubbed v1.2) features are now in....

Jerry Niu | Feb 28, 2008 7:28 PM

UPDATE (2/20/2009) - These instructions apply to versions 4.1.X, 4.2.X, 4.3.X, 4.4..X, 5.0.X & 5.1.X) Read my post on "How to get Liferay running in Windows XP Pro" for reference. Download SQL...

Jerry Niu | Feb 28, 2008 6:27 PM

Install Java Set JAVA_HOME Set the JAVA_HOME Environment Variable and point it to the location of the JDK Add JAVA_HOME to the Path Env Var Tomcat needs to know the location of the JDK in order...

Jorge Ferrer | Feb 24, 2008 8:14 PM

As promised, I want to finish the review of the new features of the wiki portlet. This time I'm not going to write much and will let the screenshots speak for themselves: Diff view of changes...

Alexander Chow | Feb 22, 2008 12:40 AM

For the last month or so, my focus has been to slowly improve Liferay's WebDAV capabilities. WebDAV is an incredibly powerful way of accessing data on the portal, but there is always room for...

Brian Chan | Feb 18, 2008 7:33 AM

I just got back from a week in Rome, part work, part vacation.. (like I ever go on vacation). Here are some highlights of the week. That's me with an original bust of Nero. He was the crazy emperor...

Jorge Ferrer | Feb 17, 2008 12:22 PM

Ok, maybe the title is a bit pretentious but I have to say that I'm really excited with the results. I'm surprised myself with how much we've been able to do in so little time. IMHO after these...

Richard Sezov | Feb 15, 2008 4:11 AM

Despite years of resistance, I am now a Kubuntu user. It's taken a lot to get me here, but if you're interested, hang on to your hat. I've been using Linux for many years as my primary operating...

Jonathan Neal | Feb 14, 2008 1:17 AM

Oh to be young again... Hold on, I am young - young, healthy, well, mostly healthy, and ready to take on the world! So, what better way to take on the computer world than take on the king of the...

Jorge Ferrer | Feb 13, 2008 5:09 PM

Yesterday I received my first book bought at Lulu.com and I have to say that the whole process has been great. The price has been lower than the usual technical books I buy and I've had to wait...

Ray Augé | Feb 12, 2008 10:59 PM

Liferay offers a wide variety of different remote API's. A very useful one is JSON. It's useful because most languages have JSON processing functions. So the only dependencies are those and HTTP...

Jonathan Neal | Feb 12, 2008 6:11 PM

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Edward Shin | Feb 12, 2008 12:28 AM

1-action-forward - Contains the basic files needed to display a JSP. Describes key aspects of the core files. 2-tiles - Covers tiles, adding the portlet to a category and internationalization....

Nate Cavanaugh | Feb 12, 2008 12:18 AM

People seemed to like the "hey buddy, want to hear a secret?" nature of my last post, and in that tradition, I will try to drop some tips about some of the lesser known ways of playing around with...

Ray Augé | Feb 11, 2008 7:35 PM

Sometimes you want some ability to tweak your Liferay theme at runtime... Note: Don't do this when you are packaging a theme for public consumption. It's very easy to add some "on-line"...