Exciting news!  This morning I received a note from Greg Luck via the Ehcache Open Discussion mailing list announcing that the Ehcache p...

I mentioned in an earlier post that a project I'm working on needed a thread-safe class with behavior similar to LinkedHashMap , which ...

Last night, I was reading Caches and Maps in Terracotta by Alex Miller when I came upon his link to the JPC (a.k.a. JavaPC) Project .  It ...

I’ve been using VisualVM on and off with modest success since I first found out about it at JavaOne 2008 .  In addition, since JDK 6 updat...

On Wednesday night (May 6th), I attended an alumni event held by the UMass Boston CS Department in the beautiful five year old Campus Cente...

Back in March of last year, I wrote a post comparing Groovy and Scala .  Enough time has passed that I thought it was worth revisiting the t...

For my work, I was looking for a thread-safe equivalent of LinkedHashMap that would work well as the basis for an in-memory cache.  I was h...

I was recently reading some postings on High Scalability and came upon one discussing some cool new features in EC2 . It also mentioned a ...