Organic Element Blog

Jonas Bonér of Terracotta fame has a nice blog entry that sums up the way we like to do our caching. But this wasn’t always the case for us…

Why, oh why, don’t most software developers and even some project teams understand that even the fastest, tightest, most memory conserving, software or libraries will be perceived as utter crap if the demo site that is pimping the goods looks like a horror show. I have been particularly aware of this heinous violation of [...]

First installment: Zutubi appears to be commited to using OSGi as a foundation in a future release of Pulse, their continuous integration and build automation server.

I am a big fan of the Beryl window manager for Linux and normally I use it on my Laptop which runs Fedora Core 6.  Beryl has a serious problem running Swing based GUIs because of a compatibility issue with some awt libraries in the JRE.  There is a bug open here that talks about [...]

So obviously Steve Jobs’ comments about 3rd party apps and Java on the iPhone have started a storm of blog entries and discussions about Java’s deployment footprint and the feasability of deploying Java apps to mobile devices.

I just got a beta announcement for VMware Workstation v6.0 which looks to have some pretty nifty new features.  This release adds Vista support, multi-head support (different monitor per VM or single VM on mutli monitors), headless support (run a VM in the background without Workstation UI), and a set of automation APIs to allow [...]

In the past year or so I have had a recurring nightmare in dealing with Apache’s comons-logging project and its pervasive (and I think misguided) use by a lot of open source projects. The difficulties are well known to those who have had issues using it within web apps on many different web [...]