by javery on February 24, 2010
I am pumped to be talking at Developer Day this Saturday in Durham, I have given talks to lots of different crowds but this will be the first time I am talking about a .NET related topic to a group of developers that aren’t .NET specific. I am what you might call a reluctant Microsoft developer at this point, my main product is still mostly written in .NET so I use it everyday and have made the best of it. In this talk I am going to talk about the Open Source ecosystem in .NET and more specifically the open source tools and projects I have used while building Adzerk.
For the talk I have two main goals: Show .NET developers that better options are out there and to show non-.NET developers that .NET isn’t just about dragging and dropping it like it’s hot.
If you are anywhere close to Durham I would highly encourage you to come on out, there are some great talks about Play (an interesting Java framework), Dojo, Erlang, NoSQL and much more.
Check it out.
(Oh and I will have free 30-day subscriptions to TekPub with me if you want one just track me down)
-James
by javery on January 12, 2010
Adzerk is a project I have technically been working on for over 2 years. Adzerk is the name of the software that runs The Lounge and Ruby Row advertising networks. Early last year I decided to focus on turning that software into a SAAS solution for other people looking to build advertising networks or sell advertising on their site.
I am excited that later this month my first beta customers will be coming online and I look forward to a more public beta in a couple months (followed by open signup around June).
Some of the features of Adzerk include:
Publisher portal and workflow for signing up
Advertising portal and reporting center
CPM, CPI, Fixed, and RSS advertising
Serve multiple ads with one request
Geo-location and site inclusion/exclusion
Site channels with keyword selection and much more
Publisher payout calculation
I have so much to talk about I don’t even know what to say in this blog post, let’s just say I am very excited to talk about it and will be blogging about some of the interesting features I have built in and some of the open source projects I am going to spin off from it.
If you would like more information when it becomes available please signup for the mailing list.
-James