Ramseur's Rainbow Portal 2.0 Blog

This version is officially 2.0.0.1881e and should be the version of choice for rainbow. It allows you to deploy the rainbow base production 1.6 code on the 2.0 framework to take advantage of the new 2.0 features. Read More...

This is the same version that runs www.iocluster.com and source.iocluster.com. Well we have decided to give this ( thats right straight to the google svn) to the community. This is a production copy of rainbow 2.0 ( i repeat ..PRODUCTION) and has never had a major problem or gone down since I deployed it over a year ago. Read More...

Man you rainbow users are fast. Google gave us more space so I uploaded the novell release of the .NET 1.1 ( 1.0.6.1880F ) Rainbow 2006 to google code organizing us more on only one svn. Before I knew it, it had already been downloaded over 1000 times. Read More...

Download the release from Google code: http://code.google.com/p/rainbow/ You can click on the featured download from the main page or click to the download page by the Downloads tab. Hello my fellow Rainbow community users. Last night I put the final Read More...

After consulting the lists [ and deploying rainbow at least 20 times] and various rainbow Developers, I found a nice version that the 1.1 devs are working on at our novell forge. I did one test on SQL Server 2005 express (come on I gotta use either .NET 2.0 or 2005) and walked through some unit tests to prove its functionality. This proves Rainbow works on both SQL Server 2000 and 2005 (all versions). I fixed one minor Role issue that I found just by adding a timestamp to new roles. Users should then change the name of the new role to whatever they wish. Read More...

Alexey and I have taken our own time this weekend and created a CCNet server for Rainbow 2.0 Devint. This portal will serve as a resource for up to the hour news on the source code for Rainbow 2.0. If you ever wonder the status of the current build of code, you can easily just hop to this site. Read More...

I for one am a fan of results over talk. If youve got time to talk and can back that up with a result then Im all ears. Instead of more discussion, I am working together with MGF [ and anyone else who wants to join in] to produce an Alpha 4 CPP. Read More...

First, Ill update the community on rainbow. There has been many discussions between the key players for the next release which will be Rainbow 3.1 + full membership integration. Most developers have only come to me with concerns about making a custom rainbow provider over using the standard [MS]one. My response to this is simple. 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...

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...

As promised, I have released a new Alpha 3.1 version which is a version that was given to me after the syncing of Novell. It seems that we were releasing Alpha 3 right during the migration of novell and something went wierd. In this release, I have disabled compression by default but you may turn it on just by uncommenting lines. I organized readmes and made a new robots.txt. 3.1 is also 500k smaller too. Read More...

n efforts to bring the two projects together, I have taken the latest revision of the 1.1 code and packaged it. It is now avail at novell and can be downloaded by anyone. Read More...

I have finish QA testing the Developer preview of Alpha 3 which includes the complete source to Rainbow. Developers should use this version as the latest version to begin work on extending and improving rainbow. Rainbow future users and current customers should use this build to find issues to be submitted on the forums. Please ignore the date on the release as it says 3-15-2005 and should be 2006. Read More...

Well we've worked hard to bring you a standards compliant portal with 2.0 features. This is the pre-compiled version of Alpha 3.0 that is really easy to install and does not require VS 2005. Just change your connection string in web.config and configure IIS then youre set. Please go get this from novell and test. Read More...

I am done with my QA testing and ready to release this thing. I am still of course doing minor changes to things and making sure things are XHTML. Some html and a few aspx's might be html and not xhtml but all the modules and default pages are. The site compiles and works with clean install on my boxes. Read More...