Monthly Archives: December 2005

Friday Fun: Infinite Cats

Yeah. So it had to happen. Cats. And you though this blog was cat free – hah!




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Duh! Advertise Your Own Products Dude!

So my blog has this ad banner down the side, which may or may not annoy you, but hey, what's a blog without adwords these days? Anyway, it suddenly struck me that I was failing to advertise my own products … Continue reading




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Creating Wealth

I have changed the price of our first product, CSV Manager from $97 to $47, for the entry level license. This was not an easy decision. No pricing decision ever is. CSV Manager was launched in September 04, so I … Continue reading




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To Tell, Or Not To Tell, That Is The Question

One of the beta reviewers for our new product, XML Manager, asked me why I had not documented the development process on this blog. She suggested that it would be very interesting and useful for potential clients to see the … Continue reading




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XML Manager Soft Launch (with freebies)

Big news this Monday. Ricebridge Software has launched our second Java component: XML Manager. It turns your XML into a list of data records, ready for processing. Check out the demo (all AJAX-ified, if I do say so myself!). We're … Continue reading




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Friday Fun: Silly Skype

Possibly the daftest thing you can do with Skype: WeeMee.




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More Entries in the Edit Sidebar

Roller shows a list of recent entries and recent drafts on the left sidebar of the weblog editor page. This is a really handy little feature and lets you access entries and drafts really quickly. The problem is that only … Continue reading




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Killer Conversations

I may be a bit late to the game, but I won an MP3 player in a raffle recently. Hey, I'm cheap! Anyway, I finally got into this podcasting thing. If you're just getting into it as well, check out … Continue reading




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Revenge of the Clampees

So if you've read Gladwell's Tipping Point, you'll appreciate this one. I was taking my daughter down to the local outdoor playground on Sunday, and the car park was unusually full. As in, completely. People were even parking up on … Continue reading




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Data Center Minutes

Here's one for all you MBAs out there. I'm trying to work out the cost of a data center minute. Huh? What's that? OK. Imagine you have a mid-range web server in a data center. You pay an annual fee, … Continue reading




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