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New eCommerce 'Product Module' user guide. Sept 18, 2003: This new Module Guide by the developer, Thierry, describes how to use Rainbow's ’Product’ module to set up an online store. Thanks Thierry for another great contribution ! Read full story
New developer documentation Jan 7, 2004: Leo Duran has created a new document for Rainbow developers on how to create private assemblies (dlls). This is a must-read for people wanting to distribute add-on modules in binary Jan 7, 2004: Branimir Betov has created a short how-to on how to change IIS6/Windows 2003 settings to reduce the initial compile time for Rainbow after a period of inactivity by adjusting the settings for Worker Processes.
New Rainbow FAQ is growing Jan 7, 2004: Chris Farrell and Joel Contreras have started creating a FAQ to help new and experienced users. Check it out.
v1.0 Release Candidate now available Oct 15, 2003: After more than a year and a half of development, and 11 months in the public domain, we have finally finished the feature set for our first official Rainbow release. Download the release candidate from the Downloads link at the top of this page.
New database backup module Mathias Verlee has contributed a new free module that creates a backup up of the Rainbow database. Thanks Mathias ! Get it from the Downloads page.
Updated Translation guide Jun 28, 2003: An updated Translation guide is now available that shows you how to use Esperantus to create a localized version of Rainbow.
Rainbow Hosting Service May 23, 2003: We have created a new partnership with an Italian server farm for hosting Rainbow based portals. Send email to rb_hosting@duemetri.com for additional details or check on the services plan here: Read full story
Language switcher Hi folks... After hard beta testing and hours of work the language switcher is now on its final release. I think that now it is pretty stable and works well on my test site. If someone wants to try it the code is available on Esperantus CVS and soon as download. After getting some feedback I will include in Rainbow. Read full story
Software Patent in Europe On September 1st the European Commission is going to vote a revised version of the European Patentability rules. The proposed revision contains a set of serious challenges to Open Source development since regulation regarding software patents will be broadly extended and might forbid independent development of innovative (Open Source and not) software-based solutions. The European Open Source community is very concerned about the upcoming new regulation and has organized a demo protest for August 27, asking Open Source supporting sites to change their home pages to let everyone know what is going on at the European Parliament. Due Metri has decided to support this initiative, and this is why you are seeing this article. For further information please see http://swpat.ffii.org.
Discussion Module Enhancements June 27, 2003: Builds after June 27th include the new discussion module that allows you to view threads either in-line or in a separate window. You can also see how many times a particular thread has been viewed. Users may now edit their own posts even if the do not have full 'module edit' permissions. Searches that find a single topic will display the entire thread.
E-Commerce module added to Rainbow April 19, 2003: Rainbow now comes with a built in e-store that supports 3 levels of product categories, product pictures, and an approval workflow prior to publication of new products. Thanks Thierry !

New eCommerce 'Product Module' user guide.
Sept 18, 2003: This new Module Guide by the developer, Thierry, describes how to use Rainbow's ’Product’ module to set up an online store. Thanks Thierry for another great contribution ! Read full story

New developer documentation
Jan 7, 2004: Leo Duran has created a new document for Rainbow developers on how to create private assemblies (dlls). This is a must-read for people wanting to distribute add-on modules in binary
Jan 7, 2004: Branimir Betov has created a short how-to on how to change IIS6/Windows 2003 settings to reduce the initial compile time for Rainbow after a period of inactivity by adjusting the settings for Worker Processes.

New Rainbow FAQ is growing
Jan 7, 2004: Chris Farrell and Joel Contreras have started creating a FAQ to help new and experienced users. Check it out.

v1.0 Release Candidate now available
Oct 15, 2003: After more than a year and a half of development, and 11 months in the public domain, we have finally finished the feature set for our first official Rainbow release. Download the release candidate from the Downloads link at the top of this page.

New database backup module
Mathias Verlee has contributed a new free module that creates a backup up of the Rainbow database. Thanks Mathias ! Get it from the Downloads page.

Updated Translation guide
Jun 28, 2003: An updated Translation guide is now available that shows you how to use Esperantus to create a localized version of Rainbow.

Rainbow Hosting Service
May 23, 2003: We have created a new partnership with an Italian server farm for hosting Rainbow based portals. Send email to rb_hosting@duemetri.com for additional details or check on the services plan here: Read full story

Language switcher
Hi folks... After hard beta testing and hours of work the language switcher is now on its final release. I think that now it is pretty stable and works well on my test site. If someone wants to try it the code is available on Esperantus CVS and soon as download. After getting some feedback I will include in Rainbow. Read full story

Software Patent in Europe
On September 1st the European Commission is going to vote a revised version of the European Patentability rules. The proposed revision contains a set of serious challenges to Open Source development since regulation regarding software patents will be broadly extended and might forbid independent development of innovative (Open Source and not) software-based solutions.
The European Open Source community is very concerned about the upcoming new regulation and has organized a demo protest for August 27, asking Open Source supporting sites to change their home pages to let everyone know what is going on at the European Parliament. Due Metri has decided to support this initiative, and this is why you are seeing this article.
For further information please see http://swpat.ffii.org.

Discussion Module Enhancements
June 27, 2003: Builds after June 27th include the new discussion module that allows you to view threads either in-line or in a separate window. You can also see how many times a particular thread has been viewed. Users may now edit their own posts even if the do not have full 'module edit' permissions. Searches that find a single topic will display the entire thread.

E-Commerce module added to Rainbow
April 19, 2003: Rainbow now comes with a built in e-store that supports 3 levels of product categories, product pictures, and an approval workflow prior to publication of new products. Thanks Thierry !

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