Stas's blog

There are many situations when it is required to ensure that data was written to the disk and write is also required to be fast. The most m...

There was a wonderful page with that list ( http://www.md.pp.ru/~eu/jdk6options.html ), but it seems it's gone now and not available an...

Team city is wonderful CI and build management platform, which combines great capabilities with really simple configuration. I seriously lov...

Recently, I was working on one product which required replicated caching. Caching provider was already decided - EhCache, and the remained w...

Have never really been thinking about which library to use for regular expression, it always was java.util.regex by default. But I found th...

It would be true to say that Quicksort is one of the most popular sorting algorithms. You can find it implemented on the most of the languag...

Personally, I'm not big fan of JCaptcha library and recently was lucky enough to find another problem there. The problem is related most...

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...