http://www.erikgeurts.com/openx/tips Tips, tricks and tutorials about the OpenX ad server by OpenX community consultant Erik Geurts Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:26:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Earlier in the week, OpenX version 2.6.3 was released. This upgrade is all about fixing bugs and introducing small enhancements. The OpenX blog has a link to the release notes and there is also a list of the 80+ changes that are part of this upgrade. I've done a dozen upgrades ... http://www.erikgeurts.com/openx/tips/openx-263-released/ Earlier in the week, an important upgrade to OpenX 2.6 was released. This version 2.6.2 fixes a security issue that was reported a few days ago. Because of this, it's very important that all users of OpenX 2.6 upgrade their installations. To download the new software, just go to the ... http://www.erikgeurts.com/openx/tips/openx-262-released/ Using the newest version of OpenX, I was able to speed up a client's website by a factor of 10. This tip describes how we used the single page call feature of OpenX 2.6 to do this. Introducing OpenX single page call My client hired me to upgrade his ad server system ... http://www.erikgeurts.com/openx/tips/single-page-call-makes-site-load-faster/ This week saw the release of a new product from Google, their web browser Chrome. I downloaded and installed Chrome and tried it out on a few sites and applications I use a lot. One of them, of course, is OpenX, and it works fine there. What I like is that ... http://www.erikgeurts.com/openx/tips/openx-works-fine-in-google-chrome/ OpenX have released version 2.6.1 of the OpenX ad server product. According to the blog post, there are no less than 58 bug fixes and enhancements. There have been some reports of people having problems with upgrades from OpenX 2.4 to 2.6.0, and this new fix release should be an ... http://www.erikgeurts.com/openx/tips/openx-261-released/ The OpenX team have released the latest upgrade to the popular OpenX 2.4 software. It carries version number 2.4.8. According to the OpenX blog post earlier today, the main reason for this upgrade is a security fix, but they've also fixed 13 bugs and added some enhancements. More information and ... http://www.erikgeurts.com/openx/tips/openx-version-248-released/ Today marks an important day in the history of OpenX, and perhaps looking back on it in a few years, even the internet advertising industry. The OpenX team today launched version 2.6 of their flagship product. It's been a long development process. I've actually been running early beta versions of ... http://www.erikgeurts.com/openx/tips/openx-version-26-released-today/ The OpenX team have released an upgrade of the OpenX 2.5 beta software, this time version 2.5.70-beta. In addition to some bug fixes, the most important change has to do with internationalization. OpenX are committed to making the software available in many languages, and this upgrade includes support for 11 ... http://www.erikgeurts.com/openx/tips/openx-2570-beta-released/ This tip is about upgrading your OpenX 2.4 installation, with emphasis on making the upgrade easy, risk-free and quick. By upgrading I mean going from version 2.4.x to 2.4.y or from 2.6.x to 2.6.y (I call this a minor upgrade). But it applies to upgrading from version 2.4 to 2.6 ... http://www.erikgeurts.com/openx/tips/strategy-for-upgrading-openx/ Many people have noticed that version 2.4 of OpenX handles banner and campaign weight differently from version 2.0. Let's work with a simple but real life example: There are two advertisers. Each advertiser has one campaign, but the second advertiser happens to have provided two banners that need to be ... http://www.erikgeurts.com/openx/tips/campaign-weight-and-probability/