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We've just published a new tutorial for our CSV Manager product: Uploading and Downloading CSV Files from a Website Database.

This tutorial explains how to set up a simple back office website to allow your users to import and export data from database tables using CSV format files. Users can download all the data in a table as a CSV file, and then edit that CSV file in Excel. They can then easily import their changes by uploading the modified CSV file. The database is then updated with the data changes.

This is a bug fix release for bug report 0016. Comments could begin within lines by default, now they can only begin at the start of a line by default.

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This is a bug fix release for bug report 0015. CsvLoader did not recognize CsvSpec.setStartLine.

This release also includes a significant performance enhancement (an unnecessary use of the reflection API has been removed). Thanks to Robert Muir for his feedback!.

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This is a bug fix release for bug report 0014. CsvLoader did not recognize CsvSpec.setIgnoreEmptyLines.

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This is a new release of Ricebridge CSV Manager. New features include support for Java Beans, a pull/push streaming API for loading and saving CSV, and a simplified set of load and save methods. The example code has been expanded and now includes line-by-line explanations. It's all detailed on the What's New page

We're also introducing a new pricing scheme. A free single developer XML Manager license (worth $170) is included FREE with every CSV Manager license. PLUS, we include a free SIX MONTH email support package (worth $1500) with each purchase. And if you're an independent contractor, we've introduced a new option just for you: claim a 50% discount when you link to us from your site or blog!

This version is fully backwards compatible with CSV Manager 1.1 so you won't need to change your existing code.

Existing Ricebridge customers are invited to download the free upgrade from their user accounts.

This is a bug fix release for bug report 0013. This bug causes a parse error when '#' characters are encountered.

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This is a bug fix release for bug report 0012. If you are using Swing TableModels please check if this bug affects you.

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Jostraca is an open source project sponsored by Ricebridge. Jostraca is a code-generation development tool that helps reduce repetitive coding. Jostraca code also forms the basis of the Ricebridge open-source platform. This means that Ricebridge components, while not open-source themselves, are built using open-source code that has been through the rigours of community testing and use.

This is a feature release that introduces support for comments in CSV files. Several customers have asked for this, so we thought we would oblige! Use the CsvSpec.setUseComment method to turn on comments. All the details are in the API documentation.

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We've put together trial downloads for our two flagship components: CSV Manager and XML Manager. Up to now, we've only had online demos, but due to increasing customer requests, we've decided provide 30-day trial downloads as well. Enjoy!

We're bouncing off the walls here at Ricebridge HQ! Our high-speed, ultra-reliable CSV file reader and writer, CSV Manager, has just got a TOP 5% rating from JARS, just about the biggest Java ratings site going. We're really happy about the 100% presentation score — just check out our documentation to see why we got that.

This is a bug-fix release to resolve bug report 0002.

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This is a bug-fix release to resolve bug report 0011.

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This is a bug-fix release to resolve bugs reports 0008 and 0009.

Ricebridge customers are invited to download the latest version from their user accounts.

Ricebridge has been featured in a new book about entrepreneurs and starting a business. Entrepreneur Focus by Eric Locken covers a wide range of startup stories and adventures and we were very happy to add our story to this book.

This is a bug-fix release to resolve bugs reports 0005 and 0006.

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We have published a new article that explains how to use CSV Manager with the MaxMind IP Locator database.

The MaxMind database allows you to determine which country an IP address comes from, which means you can locate your website visitors geographically. The article covers the practical details of reading in the MaxMind CSV file and using the database created to store the IP address to country mapping.

The article also presents a solution to problem of handling weekly updates from MaxMind without having to read in the entire CSV file each time.

We are updating the Ricebridge website in preparation for our new product launch - sorry no details yet as we are still in stealth mode.

We have added a new feedback button at the bottom of each page so that you can tell us when our pages aren't doing their job (and maybe sometimes when they are!) and explaining how to use our components in the most direct and easy manner. We want to make sure our documentation is as clear as possible.

We are also about to launch a series of real-world tutorials showing you how to use our products to solve real software requirements - so watch out for those too.

This release of Jostraca includes much needed performance improvements when generating multiple Java templates. Now, all Java templates are compiled and executed inside the Jostraca process if possible and multiple templates are compiled together instead of separately. For generation tasks involving many templates, these changes can make code generation up to three times faster.

This is also the first release of Jostraca under the new Ricebridge sponsorship arrangement. This means that Jostraca development will now be directly financially supported, while remaining freely available under the GPL.

This release adds Jython to the list of languages that can used in Jostraca templates. Jython is an excellent choice for creating templates that need to integrate with an existing Java environment (and its faster than normal Java templates!).

A new tutorial covering the improved template generation process has been written, which provides an overview of how Jostraca works and gives some hints for dealing with areas of difficulty.

Today is the first day of Ricebridge software. Ricebridge makes easy-to-use Java components that are quick and simple to integrate into your existing project.

Our first product is a small component to handle CSV format data files. You can read all about it on the CSV Manager product page.

We created CSV Manager because CSV files are one of those things that should be easy, but they aren't. There are too many variations and handling escaped or quoted fields is a real pain. We've put together a comprehensive, fully tested solution that just works, so now CSV files are something you can just use instantly. There's no need to mess about with awkward regular expressions or write your own parser, we've done it all for you.