Ramseur's Rainbow Portal 2.0 Blog

He is a fellow Rainbow 2.0 Admin and great thinker. I often discuss rainbow with him daily and get into heated arguments about architecture plans. Read More...

Following Jon's lead of work on the weekend, I decided to make it easier to install Rainbow. I first created a solid SQL 2005 express pre-installed version and then made a template from it. Read More...

Well today I downloaded IBATIS and converted the .NET 1.1 version to 2.0 as I couldnt find one. I then noticed that the reference to nihibernate was missing in Ibatis.Extensions. HMMMMM interesting...... Nhibernate being used INSIDE Ibatis. Read More...

I have been thinking about this for a while now and I believe for rainbow to be trully free, it needs to be BSD. A couple of the third party web app vendors I am talking to request it and a lot of projects seem to do well with it. Read More...

ProntoWiki was developed in VWD [ ASP.NET 2.0] and uses ASPNETDB membership by default. I like that it has permissions and a decent user support. It also uses master pages and we all know what that means : AJAX!! Read More...

I am in the hunt for a 2.0 open source wiki or at leas a solid 1.1 . I looked around for about 3-4 hours last night and tried a few. I was able to convert FlexWiki to 2.0 without too much trouble. I am currently looking into the features. Right of the back, I dont like the UI and I want more of a user system for full collaboration. With these open source third party web app modules, I want to give rainbow more applications it needs. Read More...

As I wait for the bug fix .NET 1.1 release of SubText from Phil Haack , Id thought I would see how easy it is to deploy ajax. In around 5-10 minutes of work, I applied .NET 1.1 version of magic Ajax in some of the operations. Below is a screen shot: Read More...

SubText , an awesome open source blog written in C# by Phil Haack , went final 3/4/2006 for .NET 1.1. What did this mean to me? A cool blog module to replace our current old one in Rainbow 2.0. I had planned to revamp the old rainbow module using joe audette[hope i got the spelling]'s updated version but SubText is an very nice full featured blog module. I am trying to go through all the features and see about the web author ones . We can easily turn this into a module by making a Rainbow entry point. Would be nice to be able to start your own online newspaper in rainbow. Read More...