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The Small Publishers Room of The Lounge has recently added a number of new top-notch bloggers:
The Elegant Code bloggers put out an incredible amount of good content. They are quickly on their way to being one of the most respected groups of .NET bloggers.
I have known Harry Pierson for a long-time and he has been blogging for even longer (over 6 years). He is a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio Languages team, primarily focused on IronPython.
Denny Boynton is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft based in The Gateway to the West, St. Louis, Missouri. Eventually I think we will have all of the Microsoft Evangelists on our network.
The Small Publishers Room now includes 32 influential publishers, and keeps growing!
-James
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Posted by James Avery on Apr 15, 2009
I am proud to announce two new members of the Ruby Row:
Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots is the company weblog of thoughtbot - a Ruby on Rails consulting company based in Boston, MA. Thoughtbot are behind the excellent Shoulda testing framework as well as a host of other open source projects.
BuildingWebApps.com is an information portal build for Rails developers using the Webvanta platform.
I am thrilled to have these great additions to Ruby Row.
-James
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Posted by James Avery on Feb 13, 2009
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 room to take on additional publishers. Here are the new additions:
Corey Haines is currently a freelance developer and journeyman, traveling around to pair-program with other developers.
Dave Bost is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft and co-host of the Thirsty Developer Podcast.
Mark Harrison is a Solutions Architect at Microsoft UK - and a pre-sales Technical Product Specialist for Office Platform with a key focus on customer solutions for Content Management, Collaboration, Portal and Search.
John Sheehan is a .NET developer based in St. Paul, MN who specializes in building web applications with ASP.NET MVC, C#, jQuery and SubSonic.
I am thrilled to have these influential developers and bloggers join The Lounge.
-James
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Posted by James Avery on Feb 13, 2009
The latest version of Adzerk (the software that runs The Lounge, Ruby Row, and The Branch) was released last night. This release includes lots of small tweaks and a number of larger features:
1) All ad images are now being served from Amazon's CloudFront. CloudFront is a CDN network that uses multiple locations across the globe to ensure that images load as quickly as possible.
2) We revised the code we use to display ads on publishers sites to speed up how quickly the ad displays, this should increase the number of click-throughs as the ad will be visible to the user for a longer period of time.
We also made a number of changes to the internals of the system to enable a new ad type which will be announced in the next couple of months, as well as a number of infrastructure improvements.
-James
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Posted by James Avery on Feb 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 take advantage of this very targeted advertising opportunity. I am very proud of the group of publishers who helped to launch this room, it is made up of a couple of publishers who moved from the Small Publishers Room as well as publishers new to The Lounge. Here is our "starting lineup":
Tim Heuer is a Program Manager with the Silverlight team at Microsoft and writes a very popular blog filled with great information.
Shawn Wildermuth is a well-known blogger and Microsoft MVP who runs the Silverlight Tour which offers comprehensive Silverlight training.
Jeff Blankenburg is a developer evangelist with Microsoft who is personally very passionate about UX.
Josh Holmes is a RIA Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on building and educating the dev partners with a Rich Internet Application offering in Central Region.
Corey Schuman is a passionate Silverlight developer who enjoys contributing to the community via his blog, books, and speaking engagements.
Terence Tsang writes the Shine Draw blog which compares Silverlight and Flash by posting various samples and source code.
Laurent Bugnion is the author of "Silverlight 2 Unleashed" and frequently writes about Silverlight and web development on his blog.
I am very excited about this room and expect it to grow throughout this year to include all the top sites and bloggers who focus on Silverlight.
-James
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Posted by James Avery on Feb 10, 2009
