The programmer's notes

Introduction Static method format()  that was added to class java.lang.String in java 5 became popular and widely used method that repla...

Motivation Winzip can create self-extracting executable. Actually this is the unzip utility together with content of zip file that is bei...

I have been developing code professionally for the last 17 years. Most of these years I used MS Windows because this operating system is m...

Analysis JavaScript MVC frameworks became very popular during the last 5 years. Naturally there are a lot of such frameworks. I spent mos...

Very often we check computer clock using either System.currentTimeMillis() or System.nanoTime() . Often we call these methods to check how ...

Annotations introduced to Java 5.0 became a very well known and widely used language feature. There are more or less "standard" s...

Introduction There are a lot of articles that describe various java tricky questions. But IMHO most of that questions can be easily answer...