James Avery

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
by James Avery , Jim Holmes
December 2006
$59.99 USD

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Visual Studio Hacks
by James Avery
March 2005
$24.95 USD

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Articles

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Analyzing Assemblies with Reflector
Publish Date: Feb. 20, 2007It's tough to to understand how a class, method, or entire assembly fits into your overall system. In this excerpt from Windows Developer Power Tools, James Avery and Jim Holmes show you how to use Reflector freeware to explore any .NET assembly and find its dependencies and callers, or dive down and explore an entire assembly. The Case for Freeware and Open Source Windows Tools
Publish Date: Jan. 19, 2007In Windows Developer Power Tools, James Avery and Jim Holmes tell you about scores of incredibly useful, freely available tools for Windows developers. In this article, they tell you about some of their favorite ones. What Is .NET
Publish Date: Sep. 6, 2005.NET is probably one of the more muddled and mismanaged brands in the history of Microsoft. Elucidator James Avery clarifies things by describing the two chambers at the heart of .NET: the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and its essential components, and the Base Class Library (BCL) and its major features. What Is Visual Studio
Publish Date: Aug. 22, 2005What can you really do with Visual Studio? James Avery discusses some of the various applications you can build using Visual Studio, some of its most compelling development features, and what you need to know to get started writing quality applications in Visual Studio. James is the author of Visual Studio Hacks. Refactoring with Visual Studio Macros
Publish Date: Jun. 20, 2005Refactoring is a method of improving your code without breaking or modifying the external functionality of your application. Refactoring has been growing in popularity partially because it is one of the key practices of extreme programming and because it goes hand in hand with test driven development. Refactoring consists of a plethora of different small changes (or “refactorings”) that you can make to your code. These changes are small enough to quickly test and have a low risk factor, but in total, they increase the overall quality of your code base or application. In this new article,James Avery discusses a macro approach to refactoring.

Blog

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

RSS Advertising with The Lounge

August 14 2008

The RSS Room of the The Lounge is now live. The Publishers are still working on getting their feeds setup, but I hope in a week or so to have everyone setup and the first real advertisements running. RSS Advertising represents a new way for publishers to get well compensated… read more

Codestock

August 14 2008

Friday afternoon Kevin Hazzard and Justin Etheredge made a stop in Raleigh to pick me on their way to CodeStock. Nothing makes a six hour trip go by as quickly as riding with two very smart and fun developers. We got in around 6 or 7 and went to the… read more

August Lounge Update

August 07 2008

July was another great month for The Lounge, we picked up some new advertisers in Gurock Software (the makers of SmartInspect) and Lite Accounting. We also added some great new members to The Lounge. I announced Scott joining The Lounge a couple weeks ago, I am thrilled to have in… read more

New Phone Number, New Phone, and 4 years of Infozerk

August 04 2008

When I got my first check as an independent I bought myself a 40GB iPod. This month marked four years of being an independent consultant (I have some more posts about this coming up) and that seemed like the perfect justification to buy the wife and I new iPhone 3Gs.… read more

Something new is on the way

July 19 2008

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Testing out RSS Advertising

July 18 2008

If you subscribe to me through an RSS reader you should now see a small ad at the bottom of each feed item. I am testing out the new RSS advertising that I have added to The Lounge. I have tested them in Google Reader, NetNewsWire, and Feed Burner. If… read more

Scott Hanselman joins The Lounge

July 18 2008

I am thrilled to announce that Scott Hanselman will be joining The Lounge in August. It says a great deal about someone that they literally need no introduction, if you work with .NET or any Microsoft technology, you know who Scott is. Since taking over The Lounge getting Scott onto… read more

WaterField Designs gets it right

July 14 2008

I ordered a new sleeve for my MBP today and got the shipping notice: Hi James, Thanks very much for visiting us again. I just want to let you know that your order (#75387) will ship fresh from our San Francisco factory on the evening of 14-Jul-2008 via US Priority… read more

Building The Lounge - Release 1.1 - Refactoring, Models, SubSonic, and Testing

July 10 2008

This is the first in a series of posts about building The Lounge Advertising Network. My goal here isn't to try and tell people how to build applications, but rather just to explain how I have refactored/built this application. First a little backstory. The Lounge was started by Kevin Fricovsky… read more

Project Spotlight: WhatIWantMost

July 08 2008

Well, its been awhile since the last one of these, about 8 months to be exact, but I want to keep this series alive so I am going to try and do at least one a month. I did decide to change the name of the series to Project Spotlight… read more

Deep Fried Bytes: Developing .NET Software on a Mac

July 07 2008

Last week I was a guest on Deep Fried Bytes and the podcast is now live. It was a ton of fun to talk with Keith, Woody, and my fellow guest Leon Gershing. The focus of the podcast was about writing .NET software on a Mac, which is actually becoming… read more

July Lounge Update

July 01 2008

It has been a very interesting month for The Lounge, I am very disappointed to announce that Rick Strahl and Roy Osherove have left the .NET room to join a competing network. It was only a matter of time until a competing network was created, The Lounge has been very… read more

Announcing Ruby Row

July 01 2008

A couple months ago I started a new room in The Lounge called the Ruby Room, it didn't feel right though. I have been building The Lounge as a Microsoft development focused ad network and having a Ruby room didn't really fit. It also made it tough to market the… read more

June Lounge Update

June 10 2008

June was another great month for The Lounge. We picked up Developer Express, Kinetic Jump, NDepend as advertisers. Another great set of new advertisers. I am happy to announce the first addition to the .NET room in a couple of months: It's rare I find a site that I think… read more

Conference Schedule

June 07 2008

I held off on hitting any conferences the first part of this year, my wife was pregnant and now we have a beautiful little girl to take care of. I am starting to think about what I will hit the rest of the year though, here is my tentative schedule:… read more

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