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February 20, 2012

Android Continuous Integration with ANT and Jenkins: Part 1

Recently we’ve started a new Android project for one of our customers, and since we are using a proper development workflow, I’ve began with setting up Continuous Integration (CI)  as a part of the process. I’m going to tell you a little more than just the technical details about how to set up CI server and [...]

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January 22, 2012

OpenX API – The theory behind OpenX Campaigns and eCPM (PART 3)

Today we are going to talk about OpenX Campaigns. First let us start with identifying that types of campaigns that are available in OpenX. Contract – a campaign with a daily limit spread out evenly over time Contract Exclusive – the same daily limit as in a regular contract campaign, but has a weight parameter  which [...]

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December 27, 2011

OpenX API – Advertisers (PART 2)

Before we start looking into specific components of the OpenX API, let us quickly overview the hierarchy the actual  OpenX entities. The following diagram is a gross oversimplification (it does not refer to many other crucial entities like Agency or Channel – those will be covered in later tutorials) but should be enough to quickly grasp the [...]

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December 18, 2011

OpenX API – Introduction (Part 1)

We use OpenX frequently at BlackRiver as the most open and customizable ad serving platform both for many of our clients and our own internal projects. Unfortunately, with the introduction of the commercial OpenX-based services, like the hosted packages, paid consulting and the OpenX ad network, the amount of documentation for the community edition of OpenX (open-source) [...]

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October 25, 2011

WordPress XML-RPC – MetaWeblog API

metaWeblog.newPost Function: Creates a new post on your blog. Parameters: Blog ID – For use in multisite installations, typically 0 for single sites Username – WordPress username Password – WordPress password Content – Your blog post defined as an associate array with the following fields ‘post_type’ – ‘post’ or ‘page’ ‘wp_slug’ – Post slug (optional) ‘wp_password’ [...]

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September 27, 2011

REST service with ASP.NET MVC: Part 2

Second part of article about implementing RESTful interface for you application using ASP.NET MVC tells how to create consuming library for your service.

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REST service with ASP.NET MVC: Part 1

This article shows how to implement simple restful interface for your application. First part tell about service implementation: object serialization, controllers and routing.

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Compressing CSS with YUI Compressor for .Net

YUI Compressor for .Net is a .NET port of the Yahoo! UI Library’s YUI Compressor Java project. The objective of this project is to compress any Javascript and Cascading Style Sheets to an efficient level that works exactly as the original source, before it was minified.

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Integrating Smarty with the Zend Framework

While working on one of our projects I had to implement Smarty template engine support in Zend Framework views. Zend_View engine is easily customized, so I’ve decided to use Zend_View_Abstract class as starting point in this task.

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