Archive for July 7th, 2009
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Fraud detection state machine built into OpenX cookie counters
OpenX ad platform supports ad ops staff configuring limitations in the number of times a user sees an ad in a defined session duration.
I used firebug to inspect the cookies passed on each page request and xdebug on the server. As far I can tell the impression counters use two http requests […]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Facet search - using facete query for lucene OR generating dynamic sql for mysql
I found a new favorite search engine for travel - http://www.kayak.co.uk/ - its yet another flight / car / hotel search engine - but its interface is clean and fast - very good UX.
One of the things I like about it is its faceted search - ie. On the left pannel there is a slider […]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
ide’s moving inside the browser
Seems more and more dev tools are appearing inside the browser (and more specially inside firebug as extensions)
Yslow is one good piece of technoloy to come out of Yahoo! I like the idea of tools that capture a lot of knowledge (rules) - in this case on making the web page appear fast to […]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Still learning to use OSX
I have been using my mac full time for the last 6 months - and there are still some basic things I have to learn
I was trying to install a flash debugger - called demonsterdebugger
I needed to install adobe air and for some reason google found this url for me - http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air.html which […]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Open source projects and software escrow
I was thinking about whether it makes sense to store our open source projects source code on our own server - The advantage of this would be easier integration with bug tracking tools like trac.
I realised the advantage of leaving the code on google code is that it gives people a comfortable feeling that […]
