Author Archives: Richard Rodger

Creating Wealth

Posted on December 21, 2005 by Richard Rodger

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 →




Posted in Business | Leave a comment

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

Posted on December 20, 2005 by Richard Rodger

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 →




Posted in Business | Leave a comment

XML Manager Soft Launch (with freebies)

Posted on December 19, 2005 by Richard Rodger

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 →




Posted in Business | Leave a comment

Friday Fun: Silly Skype

Posted on December 16, 2005 by Richard Rodger

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




Posted in Fun | Leave a comment

More Entries in the Edit Sidebar

Posted on December 15, 2005 by Richard Rodger

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 →




Posted in Java | Leave a comment

Killer Conversations

Posted on December 14, 2005 by Richard Rodger

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 →




Posted in Ireland | Leave a comment

Revenge of the Clampees

Posted on December 12, 2005 by Richard Rodger

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 →




Posted in General | Leave a comment

Data Center Minutes

Posted on December 9, 2005 by Richard Rodger

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 →




Posted in General | Leave a comment

Roller’s Ugly Permalinks

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Richard Rodger

I'm using Roller 1.2 for this blog at the moment. Roller 2.0 is out, but I'm in the middle of a beta-testing a new product so I'm not going to risk upgrading for a few weeks yet, in case I … Continue reading →




Posted in Java | Leave a comment

Apologies to Subscribers

Posted on December 7, 2005 by Richard Rodger

Hi. You may have noticed that all my posts have replicated themselves. I changed the permalink code to a nicer format, forgetting that this would mess up all the feeds. Sorry about that.




Posted in General | Leave a comment