Month: March 2006

I want to way in on this flame war that James Gosling has triggered with his mild criticism of scripting languages. I think it is unfair and unhelpful. Here is my two cents worth. I am still feeling my way on Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I spent a half day with Prag Dave, have… Continue reading Weighing in on the Gosling flame war over scripting languages

Today I released ehcache-1.2 beta 5. Quite a few people have been playing with the new features. I think the whole listener area has been very well road tested now. Ditto with the DiskStore performance redesign. I am also very happy that people are playing with the distributed cache stuff. Fixed a couple of bugs… Continue reading ehcache-1.2 beta 5 released

Some guys have created a java cache test tool called cache4j_perfomance_tester. The results for ehcache-1.1 and ehcache-1.2 follow. According to their test methodology both versions of ehcache are the fastest for all three scenarios. Compared with oscache, ehcache was 4 times faster for two of the scenarios and twice as fast for one. I find… Continue reading Comparative Cache Performance Numbers

The last week or so I have been developing a new version of the http://ehcache.sf.net project web site with Maven 2.0. Why? The old site featured a couple of toilet roll web pages, the longest of which was 2026 lines. That’s a long toilet roll. With the upcoming release of 1.2 and a lot more… Continue reading Developing a project site with Maven 2.0

Years ago I used to use vi for all of my programming. I also used JEdit for a while. I remember being in a Sun conference about 7 years ago when the speaker asked for a show of hands as to whether the assembed programmers were using text editors or IDEs. About 90% were using… Continue reading Java vs Ruby: the keystroke effect of good IDEs