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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 clear the decks ahead of some exciting new work coming in 1.6, such as the… Continue reading Ehcache-1.5.0-beta1 Released

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 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

We have a Python based monitoring application that regularly tops the CPU list, using more CPU than the application it is monitoring. I am a bit of a newcomer to Python. It is in stable 8th position on the Tiobe programming index (http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm). It is mature, has tons of libraries available for it and is… Continue reading We have a Python

Can Google be used to measure the popularity of something? Maybe. That is the approach of the famous TIOBE Programming Community Index. ( See http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm). As the maintainer of an open source project, it is something I look at. I am happy to that ehcache now returns more results than any other Java cache with… Continue reading Can Google be used

You may not realize it, but the state of your workspace has a massive effect on your stress levels. Often, the people who work in a cluttered environment deal with avoidable yet ever-present stress. This effect will not be a good influence on your psyche, let alone your work. That’s why it’s a good idea to take… Continue reading Untitled

Since ehcache-1.2 was released a few days ago, there have been plenty of people taking a peek at it. It is sort of fun to look at the web traffic and downloads of ehcache since the project inception in 2003. The first jump happened in December 2004 with the release of ehcache-1.1. There was steady… Continue reading ehcache usage statistics

After 10 months of development, ehcache-1.2 has been released. Thanks to all the developers who contributed to the release through feature requests, bug reports and patches during the beta program. The 1.2 release of ehcache has many new features including: Flexible, extensible, high performance distributed caching. The default implementation supports cache discovery via multicast or… Continue reading ehcache-1.2 released – distributed caching, listeners and more

Well another weekend spent on ehcache. Added a long requested feature to accept keys and values that do not implement Serializable. This makes ehcache suitable for a lot more purposes. I was always afraid of the subtleties involved with NonSerializable Elements getting into the system and then not being able to be persisted to DiskStores… Continue reading ehcache 1.2: I can almost taste it

For a couple of weeks now I have been an ex-ThoughtWorker rather than a ThoughtWorker. It turns out there are a few of us, and Adwale Oshineye has thoughtfully created an alumni aggregator at blogs.thoughtworks.com/alumni. Being a consultant can require a big travel commitment, so for a lot of people consulting has a limited lifespan.… Continue reading The Place to Be