Filtering Asset Publisher by category

Hello,
    This post I'll describe how to implement filtering for Asset Publisher by categories.

Implementing search throught assets/journal articles

Hello,
    Last days I was working about portlet which has to implement some search functionality througth Liferay's web content/journal articles. And i want to share some information related search implementation.

Custom Liferay user registration portlet

Hello,
       In this post I'm going to describe how I developed custom registration portlet. 

How to get message resources in portlet

It is not something special just some note for myself :)

Liferay ServicePreAction

           Few words about ServicePreAction class.

How to get ThemeDisplay instance

Sometimes it is  needed to get ThemeDisplay, for exapmle to retrieve Company, CompanyId, User, Locale, Urls, ets. from it.

Liferay spring portlet

Hello,
    Last days I was working with spring portlets and want to share some basic knowledge related them.
    To make spring portlet you can create basic MVC Liferay portlet by using Liferay IDE or plugin's ant script and make few steps.

Customising Liferay's My account portlet

It was needed to allow user change their profile by accessing some user page with My account portlet.
    Because of My account portlet is system one you can't add it to pages simply, but by overriding some properties under ext-plugin you will be able to put it on the page.

Changing Liferay Journal's(Web content's) abstract text area to richtext editor.

             Sometimes it is needed to use some html tags for liferay web content's abstracts, but this field is simple text area and it is not user friendly to put tags by hands. So, I decided to change abstract textarea to richtext editorm I will use Hook-plugin for this.
Here you can find how to use rich text editor, so I tried to implement this solution.

Getting started with Liferay.

There are a lot of info over the Internet related starting with Liferay.
Here I'll just summarize info that was helpfull for me.

1. To start working with liferay you shoul install it, here you can find quick installation guide.
2. To make life easier it is better to extend Liferay and develop new portlets under Liferay IDE, here you can find installation guide for it.
3. Development guide for version 6.0, pay attention to portal-ext.properties, ext-plugin, hooks, portlets and themes.
4. Liferay Wiki 
5. Introduction to Java portlet specification.

Paul