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Companie like Yahoo and Google built their business around web software. Just like any other software company, they tend to have patterns of practices which they utilize over and over again to ensure consistency across platforms and services. A user...

Over the last week, I have been giving a good portion of my time to the Rainbow Project. With the help of others in the Rainbow Team, Eric and I have started to make positive improvements to the organization and the software. (Links: Eric's Rainbow Blog,...

Since late 2005, our team has been using ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 exclusively. One of our projects required us to look into a portal solution. Of course our favorite has always been the Rainbow Portal released by Duemetri. ...

It only took us minutes after looking at MagicAjax's website to realize the genius in it's simplicity. MagicAjax allows people to add AJAX functionality to any Asp.NET Page by simply wrapping their control arround it. We like working with people with...

Rainbow is a pain in the neck to install compared to CommunityServer.org. But it's not that bad....

I've been observing a lot of software and I know that there are thousands of ways to improve them. I would like to start with Open Source software specially because there are lots of hard working open source developers who make decent software but...

One of the first books that Charles told me to read was a book written by the inventor of Visual Basic. Visual Basic is one of the most popular programming languages thanks to Microsoft and Alan Cooper. Alan apparently wanted to redo it but Gates pushed...

Rainbow Portal can be used for many different uses. It comes with about 40 standard modules which can let you or your business build and manage a site from a web interface. Why use Rainbow for managing your site? There are many reasons, but here are...

I'm beginning a series of articles on Content Management Systems and related pieces of software that are beginning to take over the information technology business. It is often misunderstood what this category of software does and where to use....

Inmates has a simple philosophy to Interface Design. Define the Personas. Define their Goals. Work to meet their goals. I have always been a goal and objective oriented person and after reading this book, I have looked at the world of software and especially...

KonoTree started as one of the research efforts initiated at Anant Systems a couple of years ago. We were on a quest to focus our resources into an area of expertise. In order to decide where to focus, I decided to have our team research and look into...

I want to at first do some research and give my audience many blog entries on those three topics.  I will first describe portals and their uses, best practices.  I will give links[ my speacialty] as sources that back me up and introduce Rainbow...