For the past couple of years I have been saying that ehcache will never be distributed. Ehcache grew out of uncommitted patches to the Apache JCS cache. JCS implemented the JCACHE JSR. It had lots and lots of features. The reason for the patches was that the in-memory and disk stores had memory leaks and… Continue reading ehcache goes distributed
Month: January 2006
And the Programming Language of 2006 is …
Java. Yes, Java. http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/index.htm is the monthly programming language index. It tracks the popularity of programming languages. Java won the 2006 Programming Language award because it was the language that increased in popularity the most during 2005. By 4.77%. JDK 1.6 JDK 1.6 proved to be quite popular and caused an upswing. Anecdotally the big… Continue reading And the Programming Language of 2006 is …
Relative Browser Market Share Trends
It is hard to work out exactly which browser market share statistic to pay attention to. The numbers vary depending on whether people mainly access from work and by region around the world, as well as the type of site. Be that as it may I think the trend line is interesting and perhaps more… Continue reading Relative Browser Market Share Trends
The Sun and Moon: Thailand’s Suriyana and Chantra Open Source Windows Distributions
Pantip Plaza in Bangkok is the mecca for software pirates. It is 6 stories of booths, probably around 500 500 in total, selling up to the minute versions of software for 100 Baht (USD2.50) per CD or DVD. International travellers from all over the world flock there in droves. I was having money and financial… Continue reading The Sun and Moon: Thailand’s Suriyana and Chantra Open Source Windows Distributions
Syncing your Mac with your Blackberry
I bought myself a BlackBerry 7100 a few weeks back. At the time someone said you could add it to iSync using PocketMac. I got around to looking into this yesterday. Talk about great timing. At Mac World 2006 San Francisco RIM announced they had licensed PocketMac for all BlackBerry users. While it was announced… Continue reading Syncing your Mac with your Blackberry
OpenSuSE: I’m lovin’ it!
I have been running RedHat and then Fedora as my desktop for work since RedHat 5 in December 1997. Back then it was mostly about becoming familiar with Unix so that I could administer the various Unices I had inherited as part of a new job. Having gotten used to the power of the shell… Continue reading OpenSuSE: I’m lovin’ it!
The Weather Makers
The last book I read on climate change was The Skeptical Environmentalist, by Bjorn Lomborg. He is a statistician and argued that the global warming we witnessed up to 2000 could have alternate explanations than greenhouse gases, such as increased sunspot activity. He was lambasted at the time and investigated by the Danish Committee on… Continue reading The Weather Makers
Culture Shock: An Australian living in the US
In 2005 I went to the US with my family on an exchange program. We lived in Chicago, San Jose, Salt Lake City, Provo and San Diego; and visited many more places. The experience was much different to what I expected, not withstanding some 6 previous short visits to the US. Most Australians think that… Continue reading Culture Shock: An Australian living in the US