http://gregluck.com/blog/ The opinions expressed here are those of the author, not of my employer or clients. Copyright 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:44 +1000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.17 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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... http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/05/ehcache150beta1.html http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/05/ehcache150beta1.html Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:44 +1000 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... http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/05/cvs_unknown_hos.html http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/05/cvs_unknown_hos.html Open Source Wed, 07 May 2008 09:14:27 +1000 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... http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/05/mac_os_x_deskto.html http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/05/mac_os_x_deskto.html Mac OS X Mon, 05 May 2008 08:26:09 +1000 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... http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/05/curlew_retreata.html http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/05/curlew_retreata.html Social Commentary Fri, 02 May 2008 23:09:40 +1000 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... http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/04/open_message_qu.html http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/04/open_message_qu.html Java Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:33:59 +1000 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... http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/04/glassfish_uncon.html http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/04/glassfish_uncon.html Java Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:35:45 +1000 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... http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/03/glassfish_case.html http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/03/glassfish_case.html Java Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:37:47 +1000 Ehcache has been honoured as the February 2008 SourceForge project of the month. See http://sourceforge.net/community/index.php/potm-200802/.... http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/03/ehcache_is_the.html http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2008/03/ehcache_is_the.html Java Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:44:12 +1000 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... http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/12/who_can_tell_me.html http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/12/who_can_tell_me.html Social Commentary Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:40:29 +1000 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... http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/12/antipodean_summ.html http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/12/antipodean_summ.html Social Commentary Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:57:15 +1000 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... http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/11/ehcache_guide_a.html http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/11/ehcache_guide_a.html Java Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:07:31 +1000 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... http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/10/_regular_reader.html http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/10/_regular_reader.html Leisure Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:02:13 +1000 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... http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/09/adjusting_the_n.html http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/09/adjusting_the_n.html Mac OS X Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:09:10 +1000 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... http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/09/adjusting_the_n_1.html http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/09/adjusting_the_n_1.html Mac OS X Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:09:10 +1000 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.... http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/08/ehcache14_beta.html http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/08/ehcache14_beta.html Java Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:03:39 +1000