http://blog.bitgroup.com Choose to Read. Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:27:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blog.bitgroup.com/2009/04/17/names-are-crazy/ http://blog.bitgroup.com/2009/04/17/names-are-crazy/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:22:29 +0000 Alex Mekelburg http://blog.bitgroup.com/?p=90 http://rishida.net/blog/?p=100 It's a good overview of how varried naming conventions are across the world, and also links to a number of detailed wikipedia articles about particular cultures and their names.]]> http://blog.bitgroup.com/2009/04/17/names-are-crazy/feed/ 2 http://blog.bitgroup.com/2008/07/24/local-vs-remote-everything-in-its-right-place/ http://blog.bitgroup.com/2008/07/24/local-vs-remote-everything-in-its-right-place/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:12:06 +0000 Alex Mekelburg http://blog.bitgroup.com/?p=58 http://blog.bitgroup.com/2008/07/24/local-vs-remote-everything-in-its-right-place/feed/ 3 http://blog.bitgroup.com/2008/06/11/local-vs-remote-diverging-trends-in-computing/ http://blog.bitgroup.com/2008/06/11/local-vs-remote-diverging-trends-in-computing/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:42:18 +0000 Alex Mekelburg http://blog.bitgroup.com/?p=53 http://blog.bitgroup.com/2008/06/11/local-vs-remote-diverging-trends-in-computing/feed/ 2 http://blog.bitgroup.com/2008/04/17/sexy-plants/ http://blog.bitgroup.com/2008/04/17/sexy-plants/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:34:29 +0000 Alex Mekelburg http://blog.bitgroup.com/?p=46 http://www.tytyga.com/VINE-BUSH-SHRUB which soon lead me to this page: http://www.tytyga.com/product/Italian+Cypress+Shrubs+and+Trees Cool - the Italian Cypress trees I was looking for. Though I'd never before thought plants were so.... cool.]]> http://blog.bitgroup.com/2008/04/17/sexy-plants/feed/ 3 http://blog.bitgroup.com/2008/04/04/ordered-dictionaries-keyed-lists-and-net-a-review/ http://blog.bitgroup.com/2008/04/04/ordered-dictionaries-keyed-lists-and-net-a-review/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:57:22 +0000 Alex Mekelburg http://blog.bitgroup.com/2008/04/04/ordered-dictionaries-keyed-lists-and-net-a-review/ , which gives you an array-style type-safe collection of objects. And then there's Dictionary (and a number of other related types), which you can use for hash-style type-safe collections. But what if you want a collection of objects that you access by key and index? Or, more subtly, there's the MSDN warning "The order in which the items are returned is undefined" for all .NET Generic hash-type collections ...]]> http://blog.bitgroup.com/2008/04/04/ordered-dictionaries-keyed-lists-and-net-a-review/feed/ 0