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Welcome to Sutro Software, a portal software and solutions provider located in the shadow of Mount Sutro in San Francisco, California. Sutro strives to embody excellence in the art and science of software development.
Sutro provides products and services that enhance the Vignette suite of enterprise software. Founded by a longtime software industry veteran and former head of the Vignette Portal engineering team, Sutro has the broad experience and deep insider knowledge necessary to help make your Vignette project a success.
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.
-Fred Brooks
products
Portal Spy focuses a powerful spyglass on your Vignette Portal platform, providing one-console control over your entire portal enterprise. Part development environment, part administration tool, part analytics engine, Portal Spy makes life easier for Vignette developers and administrators. Make the most of your Vignette investment. Use Portal Spy -- the essential Vignette Portal companion.
Programming....gratifies creative longings built deep within us and delights sensibilities we have in common with all men.
-Fred Brooks
services
Sutro has developed innovative portal solutions for some of the world's leading companies and organizations.
Need help with your portal project? Contact Sutro today.
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls.
-Alan Perlis
support
More Sutro Software support facilities coming soon. In the meantime, please email any questions or problems to support@sutrosoftware.com.
For general Vignette support from other Vignette users, please visit the Vignette Users Google Group.
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland."
-Alan Perlis
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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
-Edsger Dijkstra
product | features
Portal Spy provides:
- One-console control over multiple portal installations.
- Drag-and-drop migration of portal components.
- Detailed portal usage metrics via attractive graphs and charts.
- Inline, syntax-highlighted source code viewing and editing.
- Inline portal configuration editing and graphical diffing.
- Scriptable app server restart capability.
- Consolidated, searchable, color-coded portal log viewing.
- CAR (component archive) file visualization.
- Rich, responsive, cross-platform Java Swing-based user interface.
- One-click web-based install and automatic updates via Java Web Start.
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
-Martin Fowler
product | screenshots
Starting up |
Connection Wizard |
Connecting |
Portal information |
Federating multiple portals |
Portal usage metrics |
Inline source code editing |
Configuration file viewing and diffing |
Drag-and-drop component migration and CAR file introspection |
Color-coded, searchable, centralized portal log viewing |
Restarting the portal app server |
The Portal Spy adapter |
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.
-Anonymous
