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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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 to The Silverlight Room there was [...]

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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 being the first advertiser to [...]

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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 get the accounting and business [...]

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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 stability of a long-term contract [...]

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Taking over the Alt.Net Podcast

January 14, 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 episode and when he mentioned [...]

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Rails for .NET Developers and the Alt.Net Podcast

January 2, 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 is well written and an [...]

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2008 In Review

December 31, 2008

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 affectionately call Rin. It truly has been life changing and while it would be nice if she slept a [...]

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The Lounge – One Year Later

December 16, 2008

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 Small Publishers Room
Launched the first .NET focused RSS advertising offering with the RSS Room
Launched the Podcast and Screencast rooms
Started the [...]

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Announcing ShadowCamp

November 11, 2008

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 separate unaffiliated event on the Sunday morning after one of these local events.

We will be having the [...]

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