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SVN stash on bash

SVN does not have a stash (or shelve) functionality, but there is always a way around

Setting up Webex on Ubuntu

It is not trivial to set up Webex to work on modern Ubuntu. This post recaps the steps I made to make it work

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