Monthly Archives: March 2006

Sun T2000 Headache

Literally. This thing is so loud I now have a headache. No more benchmarking for me today.




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Free Product Trials

I've decided to introduce free trials for my two main products. As a micro-ISV, these types of decisions are always a bit tricky. I've done pretty well up to now sticking to online demos. By their nature, the products (a … Continue reading




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Sun T2000 Server Arrives! Happy Day!

Well, you've got hand it to Jonathan Schwarz (Sun CTO), when he says “free server”, he means “free server”. A while back I decided to apply for this “free server” promotion that Sun Microsystems is running. You get a free … Continue reading




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Competition #2 Results, Competition #3 Ready-To-Go…

Congratulations to Roman Nowak, winner of last week's Ricebridge Java Components Competition! A free XML Manager for you sir! So this week, let's get pay homage to our descendants: grab those HTML anchors! All you have to do is figure … Continue reading




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Woohoo! JARS TOP 5% Rating!

CSV Manager, our Java CSV file component, has just got a JARS TOP 5% rating! Previously we had a TOP 25% rating, but now we've been moved up! Here is the mail I got this morning: Resource Name : CSV … Continue reading




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This Week’s Java Components Competition, and Competition #1 Results

Congratulations to A. Luepke, winner of last weeks Ricebridge Java Components Competition!. A free XML Manager license is on it's way. And on to this weeks competition. Just get your head around a simple address book XML document. All you … Continue reading




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