Author Archives: Richard Rodger

Sun T2000 Sax Sucks

Posted on April 19, 2006 by Richard Rodger

Running a Java 1.5 SAX XML parser on the UltraSparc T1 is five times slower than running it on my Athlon 2800+. That's about right. Five times slower. Now when I got delivery of my new T2000, I thought, “Hey, … Continue reading →




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CSV Manager 1.1.9 Released

Posted on April 12, 2006 by Richard Rodger

I've just put up a new release of CSV Manager, my CSV file parsing Java component. This release adds the ability to handle comments in CSV files. I should explain how the Ricebridge versioning system works. It's pretty standard in … Continue reading →




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Don’t Panic!

Posted on April 10, 2006 by Richard Rodger

The worst thing you can do as a website owner is to constantly make lots of little changes. The best thing you can do as a website owner is to constantly make lots of little changes. You need to know … Continue reading →




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Yet Another Dojo Mini-App

Posted on April 7, 2006 by Richard Rodger

Here's a technorati tag generator written in JavaScript and using the Dojo Toolkit. A while back I was moaning about the lack of documentation for Dojo, so I thought I would do something about it. I decided to reinvent the … Continue reading →




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Sun T2000 Headache

Posted on March 30, 2006 by Richard Rodger

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




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Free Product Trials

Posted on March 24, 2006 by Richard Rodger

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!

Posted on March 23, 2006 by Richard Rodger

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…

Posted on March 20, 2006 by Richard Rodger

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!

Posted on March 15, 2006 by Richard Rodger

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

Posted on March 6, 2006 by Richard Rodger

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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