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.

Google is hostile to open source, open standards and no longer cool

Update:On 7 July Google announced the Google Toolbar for the Firefox browser on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. This move should be applauded. Now for Google video. For some time I have been watching Google with growing concern. When they came on the scene, I was a very early user. I thought it was… Continue reading Google is hostile to open source, open standards and no longer cool

Too much spam

The levels of spam I receive have been growing in the last few months. Much of it comes from this blog. Last year my approach was to require commenters to be approved. An email would come to me and I would approve them, or not, if they were spam. Lately the spam level has gotten… Continue reading Too much spam

Jpam 0.5 released – Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X supported

Jpam 0.5 released with source and binaries for Linux x86, Linux x86_64, Mac OS X and, new in this release, Solaris. Jpam is the first general purpose, multi platform Java-PAM bridge. PAM, or Pluggable Authentication Modules, is a standard security architecture used on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and other Unix systems. JPAM permits the… Continue reading Jpam 0.5 released – Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X supported

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The World is Flat: A Book Review

I greatly enjoyed reading Thomas L Friedman’s “The World is flat”. In the context of international trade and also competition, the term “level playing field” is often bandied around. A “level playing field” is one where each combatant has the same rules and no specific discrimination against them. What happens if a lot of countries… Continue reading The World is Flat: A Book Review

Subversive thoughts on Subversion

Know the Signs of Insect Infestation Insects likely to infest archives and libraries are numerous. Their patterns of infestation and resultant damage vary not only from species to species but within species, depending on life-cycle stage: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The following list records some signs of infestation. Without exception, whenever any of these… Continue reading Subversive thoughts on Subversion