Developer, Writer, and Entrepenuer
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James's blog posts are hosted at:
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TekPub: A belated announcement
November 06 2009
I have reached a new low in neglecting this blog, I launched an entirely new venture and didn't even get around to blogging it here. As you have probably already heard if you follow Rob's blog or follow me on Twitter, Rob and I have launched a new service called… read moreOctober 15 2009
No, I'm not moving there permanently (I love living in Raleigh). Earlier this year I realized that two conferences I wanted to go to were going to be in San Francisco this year. The Business of Software conference is running from the 9th-11th of November and RubyConf is running from the… read moreSeptember 18 2009
If you would like a chance to win one of five $100 vouchers to spend at Amazon then take this short (< 10 minutes) survey about .NET tools: http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=1325041 It's not me doing the survey this time, although I do still have some results to post from the last survey. -James read moreRaleigh Code Camp this Saturday
September 18 2009
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 tools talk about analyzing the performance of ASP.NET… read moreSeptember 18 2009
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 true RSS feed bankruptcy and delete all of the RSS subscriptions… read moreYour idea will probably change
September 10 2009
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 started to see that advertising networks… read moreMay 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 moreMay 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 moreApril 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 moreDaily 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 moreApril 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 moreDaily 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 moreApril 15 2009
**Thanks to Chandrashekhar who in the comments pointed out I could use mnesia:dirty_update_counter to do pretty much the same thing, I didn't know about this function but it looks perfect** For a project I am working on I need to have a sequence number assigned to each record in an mnesia… read moreApril 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 moreInterviewing 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 moreAlso find James on:
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