At JavaOne 2007 the JSR107 Expert Group reconstituted and conducted three sessions. We admitted some new members. Manik Surtani from JBoss is joining. Crazy Bob Lee too. I was already a member but bot made co-spec lead to help make sure the JSR kept moving. We decided to conduct technical discussions in the open. For… Continue reading What’s happening with JSR107?
Month: May 2007
Ruby in decline…
At JavaOne 2007 I spent some of my time trying to figure out where things are going. It has always seemed to me that you either knock yourself out keeping up with every last thing (shiny new toy syndrome) or you try to figure out what is going to be important and focus on that… Continue reading Ruby in decline…
Comparing Memcached and Ehcache Performance
Comparing Memcached and Ehcache Performance Performance Comparison I did some research recently on memcached and how it compares to ehcache. The following graph shows the time taken for 10,000 puts, gets and removes, for 10,000 cache items. It uses the latest released versions of memcached and ehcache. In memcached’s case libevent is installed. The computer… Continue reading Comparing Memcached and Ehcache Performance
Jonathan Schwartz on open source
Jonathan Schwartz on open source (Comments from the NetBeans session) We have been held captive by the Java developers. The future is about reaching out to people without deep expertise. The number of people passionate about open source licenses far outweighs those who have actually read them. Everyone is a lawyer now. If I post… Continue reading Jonathan Schwartz on open source
Maybe this is one of the new Web 3.0 services. Twitter is about what you are doing. You voluntary allow yourself to be tracked. Here is my Twitter link: http://twitter.com/gregrluck. Or to keep things really simple, you can see my twitter “badge” which shows what I am doing is in the left sidebar on this… Continue reading Twitter
Community One 2007 General Session: Tim O’Reilly, Ian Murdock and others
What is Web 3.0 likely to be? (my question) Tim O’Reilly “Meaningless. Most transformative when we stop typing. 411 services Google, gestural interfaces. Each cell phone with an intertial sensor. Instrumentation of people. Insurance based on GPS. Computers learn from us by what we do in our interactions in the daily world.” Tim Bray “Essentially… Continue reading Community One 2007 General Session: Tim O’Reilly, Ian Murdock and others
What’s new in America
I have been in San Francico for a few days now. Coming to the US around once a year I always look for things that are new. As William Gibson said “The future is here now. It’s just not evenly distributed.” With that in mind, what is happening in California, and San Francisco in particularm,… Continue reading What’s new in America