Stas's blog

Have had a funy problem with Git. I suppose it's proxy-related. Writing it down, because sure that will have the same problem some time...

Have observed interesting behavior of File.lastModified file property on Linux. Basically, my problem was that I was incrementing the value...

Have never ever written feedback on events or courses, but here I decided to write one. It is about "Effective concurrency" cours...

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...