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Java 1.5 introduced some new cool concurrency stuff which is located in java.util.concurrent package. There are lots of good things there i...

Security and data protection are becoming now more and more popular topics. We are coming into the world where too much information is trans...

Recently on one forum I've found topic which released from memory my C++ days. That was topic about using "private" modifier o...

Some time ago I was asked to create presentation for my colleagues which describes Public Key Infrastructure, its components, functions, how...

Was looking for some presentations on Web and found one made by Steve Jobs in 1984. The reaction of people there is just amazing, I have nev...

Spent couple of painful hours trying to do that. And eventually, here is the code which will output standard output into the file and error ...

Bridge methods in Java are synthetic methods, which are necessary to implement some of Java language features. The best known samples are c...

Small and simple script. Creates Ctrl-C trap and kills all it's child processes in it. Nice to have when your script has many child proc...

Recently I had a similar feeling to one I had writing one of previous posts . It appeared that standard java tools do not have some basic fu...

To my shame I have never used javac directly for compiling source files, always it was something like "ant". And today it was the ...