Diego's notes


Writing software that works (and occasionally taking notes)
  • Java Performance: what developers must know

    I have observed that developers (myself included) tend to focus more on the make it work and make it right stages of building software, and less on the make it fast part. The consequence? Sometimes our applications behave very badly under significant or even moderate load, and we generally realize... [Read More]
  • Java: Inner Classes

    Since Java 1.1, when inner classes were first introduced, they have started a lot of discussion. Some people like them and find them useful. Others hate them. Point of views apart, the fact is that inner classes can be helpful in many situations. [Read More]
  • Java: Operators

    As in mathematics, operators in Java are used to produce new values from operands. Choosing the right operator at the right time is important in order to write clear code in a fast way. [Read More]
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