Author: Greg Luck

As Terracotta’s CTO, Greg (@gregrluck) is entrusted with understanding market and technology forces and the business drivers that impact Terracotta’s product innovation and customer success. He helps shape company and technology strategy and designs many of the features in Terracotta’s products. Greg came to Terracotta on the acquisition of the popular caching project Ehcache which he founded in 2003.

Prior to joining Terracotta, Greg served as Chief Architect at Australian online travel giant Wotif.com. He also served as a lead consultant for ThoughtWorks on accounts in the United States and Australia, was CIO at Virgin Blue, Tempo Services, Stamford Hotels and Resorts and Australian Resorts and spent seven years as a Chartered Accountant in KPMG’s small business and insolvency divisions.

He is a regular speaker at conferences and contributor of articles to the technical press.

The new ehcache server

For those of you who do not know, the ehcache project has released a SOAP based server. It comes as a WAR which can be deployed to any web container. It also comes as a standalone server which uses Glassfish V3 embedded and can be started up with a simple script. Why am I doing… Continue reading The new ehcache server

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cvs unknown host error

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 was not added to ssh’s known hosts. I sshed to the host and accepted it… Continue reading cvs unknown host error

Mac OS X Desktop Switching bug fixed by making Java 6 your default

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 nasty app switching bug you get when using spaces. That bug is that if you… Continue reading Mac OS X Desktop Switching bug fixed by making Java 6 your default

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Open Message Queue Session at Community One

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 reliable architectures. The presentation includes a use case from the No. 2 Australian e-business site.… Continue reading Open Message Queue Session at Community One

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Glassfish Unconference – Moscone Center San Francisco 4 May 2008

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 Plugin Ehcache and Glassfish If you are interested in these please come along and have a… Continue reading Glassfish Unconference – Moscone Center San Francisco 4 May 2008

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Ehcache Guide and Reference now available as a book

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 and covers the following: – Preface – Introduction – Getting Started – Dependencies – Cache… Continue reading Ehcache Guide and Reference now available as a book

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