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James Avery

http://twitter.com/averyj

Developer, Writer, and Entrepenuer


Areas of Expertise:
  • .NET
  • C#
  • TDD
  • Agile
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • writing

Biography

James Avery is the founder and owner of Infozerk Inc. which runs The Lounge advertising network and provides .NET and Ruby consulting. James has been working with .NET since 2001 and has been a web developer since 1996. He has written books for Microsoft Press, Wrox, and O'Reilly Press. James has written articles for MSDN Magazine and Dr. Dobbs, most recently doing a three month stint writing the Toolbox column in MSDN Magazine. James is a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and has spoken at a number of user groups and conferences.'

Books

Windows Developer Power Tools Windows Developer Power Tools
by James Avery , Jim Holmes
December 2006
Print: $59.99
Ebook: $47.99
Bundle: $77.99
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Visual Studio Hacks Visual Studio Hacks
by James Avery
March 2005
Print: $24.95
Ebook: $19.99
Bundle: $32.44
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Articles

Blog

James's blog posts are hosted at:
http://infozerk.com/averyblog/

The Perfect Margarita

May 11 2009

I have finally found the perfect margarita recipe and I just had to share it: 1 1/2 oz Patron Silver. 1 1/2 oz Grand Marnier Combine those in a mixer with ice and then cut a lime in half and squeeze all the juice from half of the lime into the mixer. Put… read more

The Lounge Survey

April 16 2009

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 entries to win all 41 of the Manning In Action books,… read more

Daily Thoughts - April 15th 2009

April 16 2009

I noticed Sean Cribbs was starting to post a daily blog post about what he worked on and learned that day, I thought it would be an interesting exercise so I am going to try it for the rest of this week and see how it goes. Markdown - I have… read more

An Erlang Sequence Server

April 15 2009

For a project I am working on I need to have a sequence number assigned to each record in an mnesia table. This is fairly simple in most databases but mnesia doesn't provide this option. The reason I need this number isn't just to be used as a unique identifier,… read more

Interviewing Scott Porad of I Can Has Cheezburger

April 08 2009

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 they use to build one of the funniest sites on the web. We talk about ASP.NET,… read more

Talking with Jeremy Miller about Alt.Net

April 08 2009

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 that in the first couple episodes since taking over, I do… read more

3 talks you should watch

February 24 2009

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 these great talks: What Makes Code Beautiful - Marcel Molina This is a great talk that I… read more

Erlang: List Comprehensions

February 21 2009

One of the most challenging things about learning a new language isn't just learning how to do something, but more importantly learning the best way to do something. "Best" in this context is of course very subjective, but for me it not only means correctness but also readability, brevity, and… read more

Learning Erlang

February 16 2009

Last year I saw Kevin Smith do a presentation at the local raleigh.rb group on this fascinating little language called Erlang. Erlang is a functional language that is dynamically typed. Its true power is that it makes concurrency, one of the most difficult programming problems, extremely easy. One statement that… read more

New Publishers joining The Small Publishers Room

February 13 2009

This was originally posted over on the Zerk Media blog but I wanted to cross-post it here since I think everyone should be subscribed to these blogs. Over the last month or so a number of new publishers have joined the Small Publishers Room. With some of our members moving… read more

Announcing the Silverlight Room

February 10 2009

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 Lounge. The room started serving ads in the middle of January with Telerik… read more

Announcing Zerk Media

January 20 2009

I have decided that due to The Lounge and Ruby Row doing well and my goals around creating additional networks I am going to form a subsidiary of Infozerk called Zerk Media to focus on the advertising side of my business. I am still working on the official paperwork to… read more

It's Time to go Full-time

January 18 2009

Last week my latest contract wrapped up. It was originally supposed to be a six month contract but ended up going over 18 months. I first went independent and formed Infozerk back in 2004 and since that time I have spent the majority of my time on long-term contracts. The… read more

Taking over the Alt.Net Podcast

January 15 2009

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 podcasts. I have been helping Mike with sponsorships for the podcast since the first… read more

Rails for .NET Developers and the Alt.Net Podcast

January 02 2009

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 wasn't half as painful as I remembered. It helped that the book… read more