I had an interesting realization tonight: I'm terrified of hash tables. Specifically, my work on JRuby (and even more directly, my work optimizing JRuby) has made me terrified to ever consider using a ...

The first time I heard about hash tables was after taking a compilers course during my BSc. The truth is, I was not able to understand and appreciate their usefulness fully back then. Now that I know ...

I'm trying to get my head around implementing the IXmlSerializable interface. The background on this (and feel free to skip it) is that on a project I'm working on I used NHibernate for persistence.