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/2010/10/introducing-the-elephant-curve/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/10/introducing-the-elephant-curve/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:45:46 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=363 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/10/introducing-the-elephant-curve/";While having a few drinks with some French-speaking colleagues at  Le Meridien hotel in San Francisco during JavaOne 2010 I realised that French speakers have a cool name for a load phenomenon of online systems It is difficult to tune an online system for the average daily traffic volume because it varies a lot during [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/10/introducing-the-elephant-curve/feed/ 1 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/10/support-the-petition-to-apple-to-donate-their-java-implementation-code-to-openjdk/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/10/support-the-petition-to-apple-to-donate-their-java-implementation-code-to-openjdk/#comments Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:56:22 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=360 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/10/support-the-petition-to-apple-to-donate-their-java-implementation-code-to-openjdk/";Online Petition]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/10/support-the-petition-to-apple-to-donate-their-java-implementation-code-to-openjdk/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/10/is-it-time-to-fork-java/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/10/is-it-time-to-fork-java/#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:45:24 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=337 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/10/is-it-time-to-fork-java/";This year’s JavaOne was a dismal affair. Crammed into the Hilton hotel and Parc 55, the feeling was that Oracle had ruined the conference. And the dual conference idea also caused Java people problems: those that tried to attend the key note at Moscone with JavaOne passes were turned away – instead needing to go [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/10/is-it-time-to-fork-java/feed/ 3 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/09/broadband-in-new-england-decided-who-will-be-the-australian-government/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/09/broadband-in-new-england-decided-who-will-be-the-australian-government/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:49:15 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=329 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/09/broadband-in-new-england-decided-who-will-be-the-australian-government/";Well it has been a very West Wing few weeks here in Australia. A hung parliament, with 6 reps deciding the future Australian Government. In the end it came down to Tony Windsor, the member for New England, and broadband. New England is a region in the north of NSW which takes in Armidale right [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2010/09/broadband-in-new-england-decided-who-will-be-the-australian-government/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/11/beware-of-the-esta-scam-for-the-us-non-visa-waiver-program/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/11/beware-of-the-esta-scam-for-the-us-non-visa-waiver-program/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:10:39 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=186 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/11/beware-of-the-esta-scam-for-the-us-non-visa-waiver-program/";The last time I was in the US a few months ago I was told that the grace period for the new ESTA US Non Visa Waiver program would expire in a few months. Because that time was not up, I did not apply. While this is true the US Department of Immigration in addition [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/11/beware-of-the-esta-scam-for-the-us-non-visa-waiver-program/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/10/hello-world/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/10/hello-world/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:41:54 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=1 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/10/hello-world/";Welcome to the new Greg Luck blog, powered by WordPress and a new hosting company. I will be importing my old blog entries along with comments in the next few days.]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/10/hello-world/feed/ 2 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/10/new-hotness/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/10/new-hotness/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:07:32 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/2009/10/new-hotness/ dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/10/new-hotness/";New Hotness]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/10/new-hotness/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/06/ehcache-server-in-the-cloud/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/06/ehcache-server-in-the-cloud/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:02:02 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/2009/06/ehcache-server-in-the-cloud/ dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/06/ehcache-server-in-the-cloud/";I am seriously impressed with Amazon’s cloud offering. You get a pick list of virtual machines of different sizes, a CDN, monitoring with elastic forking of new instances, fixed IPs if required, S3, attachable storage and the ability to release software as .amis for easy deployment, map-reduce with Hadoop, load balancing and a payment service. [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/06/ehcache-server-in-the-cloud/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/11/medecoded/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/11/medecoded/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:52:44 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/2008/11/medecoded/ dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/11/medecoded/";Me:decoded I recently had my DNA tested by deCODEme.com.  My wife thought I was crazy. The idea was to find out what diseases I was more or less susceptible to, and then use that information, along with more conventional tests, and consultation with my doctor, to create a personalised medicine preventative plan for myself. Think of [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/11/medecoded/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/11/planes-trains-and-automobiles/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/11/planes-trains-and-automobiles/#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:14:03 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/2008/11/planes-trains-and-automobiles/ dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/11/planes-trains-and-automobiles/";Ever seen the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles? Some travelers are caught up in an unbelievable snafu trying to get home for Thanksgiving. Well, Brett Dargan, a colleague, and I had our own version of this over the past two days. We came down to Sydney to run an Architecture Away Day. All went well. [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/11/planes-trains-and-automobiles/feed/ 0