by XTIVIA | Jun 6, 2013 | Blog, Portals
This is part 2 of a series written for UI-dev/FED new to Liferay. This assumes you’re solid with css/html/javascript, and have at least a passing understanding of dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. If you have a Java background, you may want to skip the parts that...
by XTIVIA | Jun 6, 2013 | Blog, Portals
This is part 1 of a series written for UI-dev/FED new to Liferay. This assumes you’re solid with css/html/javascript, and have at least a passing understanding of dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. If you have a Java background, you may want to skip the parts that...
by XTIVIA | Mar 29, 2013 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Twitter is now ubiquitous in the social landscape. More and more organizations are showing twitter feeds in their external facing sites. In a recent project, I was tasked with the integration of Twitter tweets into an Enterprise Portal. In this blog post, I am going...
by Asier Del Pozo | Mar 19, 2013 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Traditionally, building portals and/or web sites with “search that just works” has been hard but over the last few years, life has become easier. Various search tools such as Lucene and Solr have emerged, and platforms such as Liferay have integrated with...
by XTIVIA | Feb 24, 2013 | Blog, Portals
Microsoft Excel is the de facto standard spreadsheet tool used by businesses around the world and houses some of the most critical business information. However businesses often struggle to make this information available to employees and other stakeholders that would...
by XTIVIA | Feb 11, 2013 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Portals
Customer: “When will you deliver the scope in our statement of work?” Consultant: “We are Agile, so we can’t tell you that!” Customer: “At least give me a high-level timeline. When can I expect to see my deliverables?”...
by XTIVIA | Feb 10, 2013 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Databases, Portals
A very large gift given to us user interface developers in Liferay 6.1 is the inclusion of SASS support. One of the many ways SASS comes in handy is handling prefixed CSS rules – instead of having to specify each rule every time you, say, want to declare a gradient,...
by Asier Del Pozo | Jan 17, 2013 | Blog, Databases, Portals
There are many tools for monitoring applications. One that we may want to use is JAMon, the Java Application Monitor; it can be really useful for discovering what the hell is going on in our application. We are going to view a quick introduce in it. But first, a...
by XTIVIA | Jan 10, 2013 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Liferay has out-of-the-box OpenOffice integration which is robust and works very well for converting web content to a variety of document formats, including PDF. However, this approach requires you to have a separate OpenOffice server running, which may not be desired...
by XTIVIA | Jan 9, 2013 | Blog, Portals
Twitter Bootstrap is a popular, easy-to-use front-end framework that not only allows for rapid prototyping, but also comes with a robust set of features that let you easily implement a responsive design. If you’re building a site from scratch, all you have to do...