Lifeboat blog - coding

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

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.

Scala - the life saver

Scala is very complex, and yet the features I love the most are among the simplest pleasure it provides

My favourite Scala compilation error

Scala error message could be quite cryptic, but there is one which I love the most. It is caused by smallest of the errors with the message insanely far from actual cause.