Stas's blog

Experimenting with some stuff, I found that it is often useful to have JDK source code available in hand to make some changes, play with it,...

Just have came around amazing question on stackoverwflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10620680/why-volatile-in-java-5-doesnt-synchr...

In java world there is a very good perception about System.nanoTime(). There is always some guys who says that it is fast, reliable and, whe...

Can you guess what is going to be the output of the following piece of code? Object obj = false ? new Long(1) : new Integer(1); Sys...

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...