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Open Source used to be marked with a heavy weight of being hard to use. This company has used open source to build their business and offers a combination of services which use open source software and third party web services from companies like Amazon.
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Wow. Finally an MVC implentation in ASP.NET which really fits what we're doing in Rainbow. My friend Chris told me about it this morning and I am really stoked about using it. The ASP.NET MVC Framework - Scott Guthrie's Blog
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A friend of mine, Eric M suggested a list of tools by Scott Hanselman. It's a comprehensive list of tools for power users and developers and includes sub lists for regular expressions and xml. Click here to check it out.
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Folks, I stumbled upon this set of tools today while browsing the internet for .NET components. (Yeah. Fun!) I found one called Gaia which has a rich set of components that look really good. Here are some of my favorite demos that show off the really
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Google never ceases to amaze me what they make. Recently they have released the Google Gears framework for offline data storage for online applications. Now we all know from the Microsoft world, that a "Smart" client does exactly that, if you design and
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The history of the public internet started when a young Congressman by the name of Al Gore started pushing towards the development of a high speed internet for the future technological and economic development of the United States of America. ( Read further
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I promised the Developer team that I'd get one thing done on the Rainbow code base. I have made a simple and easy to use Rainbow Web Installer which can be used by people to configure the web.config BEFORE the Rainbow DB Installer (The current Installer
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However cool Community Server is, it's Web Installer until 3 hours ago was my model for the way I wanted to make Rainbow's Web Installer. Now I may be a little pissed because I spent 3 hours on a very stupid little issue. When using the Community Server
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So I'm sick and tired of the current installation process. To catch up rainbow to the rest of the systems out there, I'm working on a installer that eliminates the need to edit the web.config under normal circumstances. I'm borrowing ideas from WordPress,
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So if you haven't been living under a rock or in a cave somewhere, you probably know of a lot of "Web 2.0" online services which are the next generation in software. Microsoft of course is trying to launch their own "Live" line of products to compete
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Coming soon, as part of my efforts to make Rainbow a commercial quality product good enough for the real world, I am making it look better.. Here's another theme in the works, ( actually it's the theme for our new RainbowDirect hosting service ) . Note
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Classes on Rainbow to come to a College or University near you. Take a look at the Curriculum and give me some feedback!
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Found this theme off of "Open Source Web Design" to show people that it's not that hard to create a good looking Rainbow theme. Rainbow Theming and Template does what it's supposed to, you just have to *** and complain for hours until you figure it out
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A couple of years back I was giving a class on Rainbow to a group of 12 or so students. Back then as it is now, it's a *** to install multiple Rainbows. I looked at the install scripts and realized that the basic steps were really easy and the only variables
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I noticed that Sahil Malik had a very succint explanation of how SharePoint takes over an existing server . He wrongly labels it "Archictecture" .. which is the only reason I peeked at it, but it explains in clear terms the ease of use for the System
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