Java is a safe programming language and prevents programmer from doing a lot of stupid mistakes, most of which based on memory management. But, there is a way to do such mistakes intentionally, using Unsafe class.

A very interesting, useful and popular design pattern that I like. Here a video with explanation and code example: (more…)

InfoQ has previously reported on the developing situation regarding JSR 376 - the Java Platform Module System, commonly called "Project Jigsaw". Now, in a highly unusual move, IBM and Red Hat have both publicly announced that they will vote "no" on Jigsa... (more…)

YouTube, the future of television. I’ve got a lot of subscriptions to YouTube channels that deliver quality content, and those shows are ‘cast’ (using my Chr...

This is really bad. play.mvc.Filter has a serious performance issue. While working on TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks#3061 I discovered a massive performance decrease as soon as you add a simple no... (more…)