http://gregluck.com/blog Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:41:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/11/introducing-deliberate-caching/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/11/introducing-deliberate-caching/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:52:42 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=475 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/11/introducing-deliberate-caching/";A few weeks ago I attended a ThoughtWorks Technology Radar seminar. I worked at ThoughtWorks for years and think if anyone knows what is trending up and down in software development these guys do. At number 17 in Techniques with a rising arrow is what they called Thoughtful Caching. At drinks with Scott Shaw, I [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/11/introducing-deliberate-caching/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/05/terracotta-acquired-by-software-ag/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/05/terracotta-acquired-by-software-ag/#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 05:41:35 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=438 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/05/terracotta-acquired-by-software-ag/";As you probably have heard, Terracotta has been acquired by Software AG. This is an exciting development for both companies. Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta has a comprehensive blog post detailing the acquisition and its implications. For me, it means I keep working for Terracotta, but now Terracotta is a wholly owned business unit within [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/05/terracotta-acquired-by-software-ag/feed/ 1 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/holy-moly-batman-apple-upgraded-my-maven/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/holy-moly-batman-apple-upgraded-my-maven/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:17:33 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=407 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/holy-moly-batman-apple-upgraded-my-maven/";I ran a Maven build this morning and it broke. Strange, as I had not changed anything. Maven’s ability to simply break because of a change to a non-versioned dependency or even more arcane, a versioned dependency with a non-versioned dependency of it’s own (a transitive dependency) is legendary.  So I thought that was the [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/holy-moly-batman-apple-upgraded-my-maven/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/news-on-jsr107-jcache-and-jsr342-java-ee-7/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/news-on-jsr107-jcache-and-jsr342-java-ee-7/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:48:32 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=405 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/news-on-jsr107-jcache-and-jsr342-java-ee-7/";JSR342 JSR342 was created on 14 March 2011. JSR107, or JCACHE, is included: In JSR342′s words: The following new JSRs will be candidates for inclusion in the Java EE 7 platform: Concurrency Utilities for Java EE (JSR-236) JCache (JSR-107) … Isn’t JSR107 inactive? But how could this happen if JSR107 is inactive? Well the answer [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/news-on-jsr107-jcache-and-jsr342-java-ee-7/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/new-google-tech-talk-the-essence-of-caching/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/new-google-tech-talk-the-essence-of-caching/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:47:26 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=399 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/new-google-tech-talk-the-essence-of-caching/";Check out my Google Tech Talk on The Essence of Caching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TszcAWgCXD0]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/new-google-tech-talk-the-essence-of-caching/feed/ 1 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/02/ehcache-2-4-with-the-new-search-feature-is-out/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/02/ehcache-2-4-with-the-new-search-feature-is-out/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:46:44 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=392 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/02/ehcache-2-4-with-the-new-search-feature-is-out/";Ehcache 2.4 launches today. The big new feature right in the core of Ehcache 2.4 is Search. It uses a new fluent API which looks like this: Results results = cache.createQuery().includeKeys().addCriteria(age.eq(32).and(gender.eq(“male”))).execute(); In short, it lets you further offload the database. With Ehcache now supporting up to 2TB and linear scale-out you can do more than ever. What is [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/02/ehcache-2-4-with-the-new-search-feature-is-out/feed/ 3 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/what-i-am-reading-this-xmas/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/what-i-am-reading-this-xmas/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:05:52 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=378 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/what-i-am-reading-this-xmas/";I thought I would share a few of the topics I am reading: Xmas Research//Distributed  Systems The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines Luiz André Barroso and Urs Hölzle 2009- s00193ed1v01y200905cac006.pdf Lessons from Giant-Scale Services, Eric Brewer 2001 Xmas Research//Distributed  Systems/untitled folder Xmas Research//Distributed Hashtable Xmas Research//Distributed Hashtable/Chord (peer-to-peer) [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/what-i-am-reading-this-xmas/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/where-did-hibernate-svn-go/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/where-did-hibernate-svn-go/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:58:31 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=375 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/where-did-hibernate-svn-go/";For those of you looking for the older Hibernate Subversion repository it is here: http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/core/trunk/ It is now on GitHub, but the older SVN is still useful for legacy.]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/where-did-hibernate-svn-go/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/ehcache-the-year-in-review/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/ehcache-the-year-in-review/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:36:45 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=366 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/ehcache-the-year-in-review/";Is it that time of year again. A time for reflection and of New Year’s resolutions. I therefore thought this was good time to reflect on what has been happening with Ehcache. Ehcache and Terracotta got together in August 2009. We got our first combined release done with Ehcache backed by Terracotta three months later. [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/ehcache-the-year-in-review/feed/ 1 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/how-to-find-ehcache-and-terracotta-webinars-and-presentations/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/how-to-find-ehcache-and-terracotta-webinars-and-presentations/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:49:01 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=369 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/how-to-find-ehcache-and-terracotta-webinars-and-presentations/";After many requests we have extracted our talks out of the mess that is Webex and have started posting them to ScreenCast. From there you can easily watch them without any sign in rubbish or embed them. See http://www.screencast.com/users/Terracotta]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/12/how-to-find-ehcache-and-terracotta-webinars-and-presentations/feed/ 0