Synchronization in Java

Threads are an integral part of the Java language and have evolved largely introducing new ways to synchronize/lock your data but the basics of Atomicity & Visibility remains same, which are essential to understand and write robust multi-threaded applications. I recently authored a post explaining the basics of Synchronization and introducing the various new ways to lock your data. Let me know in the comments if there is anything in that post that does not make sense.

HTML5 : Web Workers

There isn't much need to emphasize that HTML5 brings with itself, a new set of Javascript armor for the front-end developer. One of the interesting additions that has the potential to change how complex operations in Javascript are performed, is Web Workers. It provides multi-threaded capabilities in a language which was inherently single-threaded otherwise. Check out my detailed writeup on Getting Started with Web Workers here.