Our recruitment drive continues, and the best avenue, as always, seems to be word of mouth. I've always thought the most interesting part of working in this industry (or any other) is the people.

Our Jtrix forum on the JGuru site spawned an interesting question: How will Jtrix gain mindshare? We're hoping for grassroots take-up which will be slower but more cost effective (we're not a large corporation) and more solid. The open source nature of our work is intended to build trust among developers.

One thing I didn't mention in my reply there was that we could spend time building a really pretty Jtrix app to attract attention, but this would take away from our core activities (producing dull-but-useful things like storage systems and bugfixing the main platform) and may not end up attracting the right people. It's a difficult call. I guess this one will run and run.