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Java 8 lamdas

Last night I wrote a code using Java 8 lambdas for the first time. And I loved it!

SringBuilder vs StringBuffer revisited

I am sure you have read about StringBuilder being faster than StringBuffer so many times, that you are sick of it already. Fun fact is: it is not faster.

Scala Option performance cost

I wanted to measure how much extra cost does Scala Option incurs.

Parsing address string in PostgreSQL

Sample query to parse address line into fields in PostgreSQL without stored procedures

Funny code

Unexpected iteration over java linked list

Extracting OLE documents from Microsoft Office format

If you ever need to extract an OLE document from within a Microsoft Office document

Pattern matching around type erasure

Better way to work around JVM type erasure in Scala pattern matching

Referencing Scala object from Java

This is a bit of functionality that I keep googling up over and over again.