Java Puzzlers: Surprising Language and Library Corner Cases

Google for Developers · Talk · YouTube title: Google I/O 2011: Java Puzzlers - Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel

Why it's here

HN commenters recommend it as an entertaining tour of exotic Java corner cases.

What it covers

Josh Bloch and Jeremy Manson present the eighth installment of Java Puzzlers at Google I/O 2011, a set of surprising corner cases in the Java language and libraries. It includes puzzlers on traps such as regular expression performance.