Greg Luck's WebLog http://gregluck.com/blog/ The opinions expressed here are those of the author, not of my employer or clients. 2008-05-14T14:00:44+10:00 Ehcache-1.5.0-beta1 Released http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/05/ehcache150beta1.html I have released a new version of Ehcache, 1.5.0-beta1, which provides a host of new features and a few bug fixes. Some of the features are up to a year old, so this pretty large release is a chance to... gluck 2008-05-14T14:00:44+10:00 cvs unknown host error http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/05/cvs_unknown_hos.html I am getting a but rusty on cvs. I went to run cvs up on a project and got "unknown host error". A google search did not yield anything useful. Playing around with it, my problem was that the host... Open Source gluck 2008-05-07T09:14:27+10:00 Mac OS X Desktop Switching bug fixed by making Java 6 your default http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/05/mac_os_x_deskto.html As readers will know, Apple released Java 6 for 64 bit intel architectures this week. What you may not know, is that making it your first preference in the "Java Application Runtime Settings" "Java Preference" app in Utilities, fixes a... Mac OS X gluck 2008-05-05T08:26:09+10:00 Curlew Retreat is now open http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/05/curlew_retreata.html Curlew Retreat is now open. Curlew Retreat is a luxury villa on a one hundred acre estate located just to the north east of Stanthorpe. It overlooks a beautiful gorge on the Maryland River. This has been a project of mine for the past... Social Commentary gluck 2008-05-02T23:09:40+10:00 Open Message Queue Session at Community One http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/04/open_message_qu.html Hi I am presenting a session on JMS and OpenMQ at Community One 2008 as follows: Session ID: S297892 Session Title: OpenMQ Session Abstract: This session discusses why you should consider Java™ Message Service (JMS) and OpenMQ for scalable and... Java gluck 2008-04-18T14:33:59+10:00 Glassfish Unconference - Moscone Center San Francisco 4 May 2008 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/04/glassfish_uncon.html I am going to the Glassfish Unconference which is being held at the Moscone Center San Francisco 4 May 2008. I am interested in or might lead discussions on: SPNEGO - Kerberos and Glassfish Open Message Queue Maven Glassfish... Java gluck 2008-04-18T11:35:45+10:00 Glassfish Case Study from Sun Tech Days' Glassfish Day in Sydney March 2008 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/03/glassfish_case.html I gave a case study on our use of Glassfish V1UR1 at the Sun Tech Days' Glassfish Day in Sydney March 2008 for which the slides and podcast are available here. With Glassfish V2UR1 now out and a great roadmap... Java gluck 2008-03-12T12:37:47+10:00 Ehcache is the SourceForge.net February project of the month http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/03/ehcache_is_the.html Ehcache has been honoured as the February 2008 SourceForge project of the month. See http://sourceforge.net/community/index.php/potm-200802/.... Java gluck 2008-03-09T13:44:12+10:00 Who can tell me about the Brisbane Bottle Exchange Propty Limited http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/12/who_can_tell_me.html I am on holidays at present on Curlew Retreat. I went for a walk today down a reentrant which joins Curlew Gorge. I found a beer bottle made by the "Brisbane Bottle Exchange Propty Limited", embossed on the base of... Social Commentary gluck 2007-12-27T19:40:29+10:00 Antipodean Summer Reading => Lulu.com http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/12/antipodean_summ.html I am reading two books at the moment: The Long Tail and 50 Great E-businesses and the minds behind them. The Long Tail is by Chris Anderson and was written in 2004. Call me a late adopter. I thought I... Social Commentary gluck 2007-12-17T17:57:15+10:00 Ehcache Guide and Reference now available as a book http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/11/ehcache_guide_a.html Ehcache Guide and Reference for the forthcoming 1.4.0 release is available as a book. The price for the high quality bound edition is USD49.95 plus shipping. The price for the downloadable print-ready version is USD37.50. The book has 154 pages... Java gluck 2007-11-29T14:07:31+10:00 Announcing Curlew Retreat http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/10/_regular_reader.html Regular readers of my blog know it for discussions of technology, Java and Open Source. For the past four years I have been working on Curlew Retreat. It is now a few months away from completion, so I thought it... Leisure gluck 2007-10-15T19:02:13+10:00 Adjusting the networking MTU on Mac OS X http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/09/adjusting_the_n.html My wife is newly involved with a Arbonne, a network selling cosmetics company. They set up in Australia a few months ago. She has an a website http://arbonnebrisbane.myarbonne.com.au . Anyway the web site did not work from Mac OS X... Mac OS X gluck 2007-09-14T09:09:10+10:00 Adjusting the networking MTU on Mac OS X http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/09/adjusting_the_n_1.html My wife is newly involved with a Arbonne, a network selling cosmetics company. They set up in Australia a few months ago. She has an a website http://arbonnebrisbane.myarbonne.com.au . Anyway the web site did not work from Mac OS X... Mac OS X gluck 2007-09-14T09:09:10+10:00 Ehcache-1.4 beta Released http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/08/ehcache14_beta.html The beta version of ehcache-1.4 is available on sourceforge and the Maven central repository. This version significantly enrichens the ehcache API and enhances extension of ehcache. The new features are: You can now define CacheLoaders in the ehcache core API.... Java gluck 2007-08-27T20:03:39+10:00