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Presentation on Performance and Scalability

Monday, August 31st, 2009

This is more a note to myself to read this …

Real World Web: Performance & Scalability:

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Free PHP Peelads – with plugin version for Wordpress

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

I have seen Peelads running on a few sites. I like them as a non-obtrusive way to feature content or ads. I thought there must be some free code to run them. Sure enough, there is – Pageear.

What is even better is there are plugins for CMS software, including this Wordpress Pagepeel Plugin. Very easy to install and configure. Just upload a 100×100 image and a 500×500 image for the initial peel and the full display and set a URL.

Works well. Recommended.

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Testing out OpenX – PHP-based Ad delivery

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

I have a couple of sites I want to run ads on and just installed open-source ad server, OpenX. The installation was easy. I plan to run the first tests here – so watch out!

I tried this out years ago as PHPAdsNew. New name and new product really. My first impressions are good. Will post how I go once I get into it some more.

Here is a walkthrough of setting up a campaign …

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