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People like to refer to the act of marking all of their feeds as read as declaring RSS bankruptcy. They get to clear out all the items and start fresh. I realized recently that I needed to declare a t...
It's that time of year again and Trinug is putting on the annual Raleigh Code Camp. I swore I wouldn't do a presentation this year but I got talked into it at the last minute. I am going to be doing a...
When I took over The Lounge back in December of 2007 I looked at it as a great way to make a little extra money each month, but not a ton more than that. As it grew, and after I launched Ruby Row, I s...
To help get a better idea of who visits the sites, blogs, and podcasts that make up The Lounge I have launched a simple survey. To motivate people to take the survey we are going to select two random ...
One of the things I have always liked about the Alt.Net podcast was that it didn't get caught up in the meta arguments about what is Alt.Net and what should Alt.Net be. So of course I managed to ruin ...
I recently had a chance to interview Scott Porad the CTO (Cheezburger Technology Officer) at I Can Has Cheezburger for a site called CodersLife. In the podcast I talk with Scott about the technologies...
Below are some of the talks that I really enjoyed over the last couple of years, these are all language agnostic and focus on general development practices and techniques. So take some time and watch ...
This was originally posted over on the Zerk Media blog but I wanted to cross-post it here as well since that blog is pretty new.
I am thrilled to announce the launch of the Silverlight Room in the Lou...
Starting with the next episode I will be running the Alt.Net Podcast. I have been on a number of latest podcasts to slowly transition over and so Mike can show me his workflow on producing the podcast...
Last year I had the opportunity to be a technical reviewer on Rails for .NET Developers by Jeff Cohen and Brian Eng (of Softies of Rails fame). I haven't done a technical review in a long-time and it...
It's New Years Eve and what better way to spend the night then writing up a post about the last year. The biggest change this year was the birth of my wonderful daughter Katherine, who we affectionate...
On December 16th 2007, a year ago today, I took over The Lounge Advertising Network from my buddy Kevin F. Here is a quick summary of the first year:
Grew from 10 publishers to 40
Launched the S...
I am a little late in posting this but I wanted to post my thoughts on the last day and the overall conference. I was a little "talked out" by the third day so I only ended up only going to a coupl...
There are more and more one-day local events every year, and each time people come into town, go to the event, then meander home sometime on Sunday. A couple months ago I had the idea to run a separa...
John walked through some of the cool stuff they are doing with IronRuby. He started out showing how you can host the ruby engine in a C# application, in just a couple lines of code he wrote a WPF irb...
I decided to take a different approach for Day 2 and write a single post instead of writing an entry for every talk. Last year when I had power in the room it was much easier to write the post during ...
Matz opened up RubyConf with an enjoyable keynote where he touched on the reasons behind using Ruby and why the language and community continues to grow. He walked us through is own programming histor...
For the first of the split-out sessions I decided on Gregg Pollack's Scaling Ruby talk. I am getting ready to do some work on optimizing the sds-rest library so I was hoping to get some good informati...
Last year was my first RubyConf, it was just down the interstate in Charlotte and I couldn't pass it up. Well, now I am hooked and I have my hotel and flight booked for RubyConf 2008. I am leaving tod...
One of the last minute changes I had to make on the sds-rest library was to change it from using HTTP to HTTPS, I thought this would be straight-forward but it turned out to be slightly tricky.
Than...
A couple of months ago my good buddy Ryan Dunn contacted me about writing some Ruby samples for the new SQL Data Services that is part of the recently announced Windows Azure. (at the time it was call...
Time for another meeting of the new Raleigh Alt.Net Beer Users Group, or Alt.bug for short. We will be meeting tonight (10/20) at O'Malleys Tavern (Guinness and Red Oak on tap) and start around 6:00 P...
Friday afternoon Kevin Hazzard and Justin Etheredge made a stop in Raleigh to pick me on their way to CodeStock. Nothing makes a six hour trip go by as quickly as riding with two very smart and fun d...
July was another great month for The Lounge, we picked up some new advertisers in Gurock Software (the makers of SmartInspect) and Lite Accounting. We also added some great new members to The Lounge....
This is the first in a series of posts about building The Lounge Advertising Network. My goal here isn't to try and tell people how to build applications, but rather just to explain how I have refact...
Well, its been awhile since the last one of these, about 8 months to be exact, but I want to keep this series alive so I am going to try and do at least one a month. I did decide to change the name o...
Last week I was a guest on Deep Fried Bytes and the podcast is now live. It was a ton of fun to talk with Keith, Woody, and my fellow guest Leon Gershing. The focus of the podcast was about writing ....
Last week I gave a talk at the local .NET User Group (TRINUG). The original title of the talk was "10 Open Source Tools you Should be Using", but then I decided that I didn't really know what tools...
The ALT.NET Podcast is now up and running. Mike Moore did a great job finding great guests and facilitating such a great conversation for the first episode. I really like the conversational tone of t...
Since taking over The Lounge I have been slowly refactoring it to my liking. Not that there was much wrong with it, but like most developers I am pretty opinionated in how I think something should be...
I just pushed out a new release of Graffiti.Redirect with a couple minor fixes and one big fix.
A couple weeks ago I was talking with Rob Bazinet about moving his blog to Graffiti and I told him he...
I saw this over on the Applied Innovations blog (who happens to be a Lounge advertiser) and it looks pretty cool:
"Today, we announced a partnership with Kentico, makers of the Kentico CMS to bring...
Back when I wrote Visual Studio Hacks the book I also started the companion site, I kept up for awhile and then it gradually got swept to the sideline. When I was getting ready to work on the second ...
In order to convert this site and Visual Studio Hacks to Graffiti I had to come up with a way to redirect all the existing links, while Graffiti includes an excellent migrator tool it doesn't have an...
I have been busy pushing out features for 22books and I wanted to talk about a couple of them. I don't want to just pimp my projects on this blog, I want to talk about why I did certain things and the...
The last of the three MSDN Toolbox columns I wrote is now online. I had a good time writing these and hopefully helped a couple people find some helpful open source and agile oriented tools. While loo...
I spent most of the weekend moving my blog from subText over to Graffiti and moving it from my old domain of dotavery to infozerk, including writing a full-featured Graffiti redirect plugin so all the...
I am a little late on this, but the February MSDN Magazine is now available online and includes the second of three toolbox columns that I wrote (filling in for Scott Mitchell). In this column I featu...
James Avery is the founder and owner of Infozerk. James has been programming with .NET technologies since the second beta release of .NET and has worked on a number of major .NET projects. James has r...
VisualStudioHacks.com, a companion site to the book of the same name, features articles, tips, and tricks about Visual Studio....
The January MSDN Magazine is now available online and includes the first of three Toolbox columns that I wrote (filling in for Scott Mitchell). I wanted to focus on open source tools and agile books a...
(that's MVC)get it here.-James...
Ok, found lots of cool stuff today so figured I would do another one. Almost all ruby/rails/mac stuff today.SVNMate - Subversion plugin for Textmate, looks nice.ActiveJax - A bridge between ActiveReco...
I am finally ready to deploy the rails application I have been working on for the last couple of months (no link yet, couple more weeks of bug fixes). Instead of going with a shared account, which I h...
Here is a sneak preview of something I have been working on:Trying to make it easier to create the Watin Models I described in my Watin Testing Pattern post.-James...
The other day I was on a conference call with my client desperately trying to convince them to let me start converting their application over to using MonoRail. The current implementation is XML and X...
Over the weekend I was at RubyConf and was introduced to an incredible little tool called Autotest. Autotest is a little command line utility that sits next to your editor and then runs all of your te...
Ok, I got blogged out and didn't blog about the last day of sessions, but I saw a number of good ones. Matz's keynote was great, he covered alot of the success of Ruby and where it was going with 1.9....
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