Prioritizing, responsibilities and open source

November 2008 had a lot of fun reads and I had a great time going over all those old post. But a few things stood out apart from the $1,000 I apparently spent on fraud prevention fees for US visas.

Books, Mocks and Open Source

So time to look back again and update some old opinions from May 2008. This time I'd like to talk about three old articles.

Don't hold me accountable for old opinions

Once in a while I get a comment about something I wrote a long time ago and sometimes that is embarrassing as the opinion I expressed a while back might not be how I feel today on that subject. Hence I decided to look into some old blog posts and see how bad it is...

What's on tap? And stay hydrated!

Recently when I was experimenting with Spark and Scala I encountered two patterns that I liked; Tap and Hydrate. So I decided to add them to the toolbox as LINQ extensions.

Lunch Dictator or Tweeting from PHP

A while back I needed a way to simply post tweets from PHP. To my disappointment most examples I found were about reading tweets or required a bunch of PHP modules I did not have the opportunity to use on the server where the script was going to run. So I had to do some work.

Dependency injection with IObservable

Just when I started working on my little toolbox I read this series on dependency injection for events which was great inspiration.

Task-based Asynchronous pattern - for your pleasure

If you liked my old series of articles covering TAP and especially the different extension methods I showed. Then you will be even happier now.