Today I spent a very enjoable morning with Dave Thomas. (http://www.davethomas.net/) Not the Pragmatic Programming Dave Thomas, aka Prag Dave. The talk was about programming 2010-2020. In other words, not what the next big thing is, but something way in the future. Most of the talk was on DOD – Domain Oriented Development. For concrete… Continue reading A morning with Dave Thomas, the other Dave
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.
A Mac OS X/Linux/Unix script for finding large files
I sat down at my newish PowerMac this morning to do some hacking. I bought it in January 2006. It has a 149GB hard drive which is now full. My wife complained about iMovie HD being a little slow, which should have been a warning sign. Anyway time to dust off my old script to… Continue reading A Mac OS X/Linux/Unix script for finding large files
I am writing this
I am writing this on Writely which has impressed me with its WysiWig editing in JavaScript. I have been doing a lot of architecture work lately using Confluence and discovered they have a Rich Text Editor mode.It turns out that it, like Writely, does not support Safari as yet. I am using it in Firefox.… Continue reading I am writing this
OSCON2006: Databases and Caching
I often get accused of being cache centric in my ideas on performance. As I attend OSCON this year I have kept my ear out, both in and out of the sessions, for how everyone is solving performance problems. There seems to be couple of themes. One is to keep as much away from your… Continue reading OSCON2006: Databases and Caching
OSCON2006: Capistrano
A month or so ago we talked about how to script deployments. We do Java, Ruby and Python deployments. We sort of had some ideas but came up blank. Capistrano, a ruby app, uses ssh and relies on posix commands, so it will work on pretty much anything other than windows. I went to the… Continue reading OSCON2006: Capistrano
OSCON2006: Tim O’Reilly Keynote – Open Source Trends
New trends: Ruby books are now outselling Python and Perl books. But JavaScript books have increased the most and are outselling all of the other dynamic languages. Why? Tim thinks it is driven by interest in Ajax, which is the hottest thing right now. Time to get over my JavaScript hatred. IntelliJ helps with that… Continue reading OSCON2006: Tim O’Reilly Keynote – Open Source Trends
Report from OSCON2006: The Ruby Conspiracy
(Update: Wow I got a record number of comments to this blog. Answers to some common themes at the end of the post) Who are those who are benefiting from Ruby on Rails? Answer: O’Reilly Publishing, the authors Bruce Tate and Dave Thomas and a handful of consultants. At last year’s conference, Tim O’Reilly had… Continue reading Report from OSCON2006: The Ruby Conspiracy
Rolling your own Google Maps
I attended a session here at OSCON on Rolling Your Own Google Maps. It is rolling your own Google maps without Google. The session also covered Google Maps. My own beginner effort, showing where I live, is here.
Back in the USA
Only about one in every six Americans who have ever been overweight or obese loses weight and maintains that loss, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. While that number is larger than most weight-loss clinical trials report, the majority of Americans are still unable to lose weight and keep it off. Identifying those… Continue reading Back in the USA
The title of this
The title of this document is “Writely is now stuffed”. But my blog is not entitled that. Also, following should be an image. But it is broken. Why? Because writely’s img src is missing “http://writely.com”. So, in the last three months since Google bought Writely, it no longer works properly and is closed for new… Continue reading The title of this