Contact

July 2, 2009

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, opportunities, or would just like to chat.
Name: James Avery
Email: javery@infozerk.com
Phone: (919) 600-0742
Fax: (888) 353-6720

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The Perfect Margarita

May 10, 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 a dash of salt in [...]

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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, I know that is a [...]

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Daily Thoughts – April 15th 2009

April 15, 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 been using RadiantCMS as the [...]

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An Erlang Sequence Server

April 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 table. This is fairly simple [...]

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Interviewing Scott Porad of I Can Has Cheezburger

April 8, 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, PHP, application architecture, the cost [...]

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Talking with Jeremy Miller about Alt.Net

April 8, 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 think this is a very [...]

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3 talks you should watch

February 23, 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 saw at RubyConf 2007. Some [...]

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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 following what is the normal [...]

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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 really says it all to [...]

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