If you are working in the online advertising industry, you might already have heard the letter RTB. It is like a buzzword floating around in all agencies currently. Most people don’t know what it is.

It is basically buying display inventory based on algorithms and target user thru that. All is happening in real time and every agency has to send a bid.

There is now an open standard for this called Open RTB.

Just found deck.js a JavaScript framework that lets you create Power Point like presentations within the browser using new web technologies like Ajax, HTML5 and CSS3.

Adobe Labs just launched Adobe Edge, a tool that lets you create animations in a UI and export them as HTML5, CSS3 and javascript. Basically it reminds me to the last version of the flash creation tools I saw.

Currently Adobe Edge is free as it is still in the Labs. You can download it from the product page.

I just found this interesting guest article of Andy Gelfond (VP Engineering at TripAdvisor) on highscalability.com.

He is describing how they are solving daily issues as well as showing how they are working within teams. Quite interesting for everyone interested in high traffic projects.

You can find the article on http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/6/27/tripadvisor-architecture-40m-visitors-200m-dynamic-page-view.html

How could I have missed that?

node.js is an evented I/O for Google V8 engine.

Okay, so what does that mean?
Basically it means it is a library on top of V8 that enables you to do things with JavaScript that haven’t been possible before. Things like coding and running your own webserver or tcp server. As nodejs never stops running processes it can do several things at the same time. Like running the webserver and doing calls to another webserver at the same time, for several users and without running more than one process.

To be honest it is easier if you just watch this video. It’s worth watching!

I am playing with ezComponents (future zetaComponents) currently.
I have done a couple of projects with ez Publish in the past and I really like the structure.

I am testing the ImageConversion component, but I just can’t get the quality of the outcoming image under control.
$converter->createTransformation( 'thumbnail', $filters, array( 'image/jpeg', 'image/png' ) );

}
catch ( ezcImageTransformationException $e)
{
die( "Error transforming the image: <{$e->getMessage()}>" );
}

If I remove the line new ezcImageSaveOptions(array('quality' => 70)); I get a “fuzzy” jpeg.

If I have it in the code, I get a 100 % quality image.
Anyone, any idea?

Btw. I really think this is a great library. I don’t call it a framework, as I think it has not everything you need for a framework.

… and I found a very helpful php flickr class called phpFlickr at phpFlickr.com.

It is super simple to start working with it and it works in PHP4 and PHP5.

HTML5 is everywhere. Beside Buzzwords like Foursquare, Facebook Connect and Apps, there is HTML5 nearly everywhere right now. Especially since Apple refuses to put Flash on their mobile devices. Just to give you a small overview about how big Apple is today.

The iOS Platform is running on the following devices:

- iPhone – 33.750.000 sold
- iPod touch – 20.000.000 sold
- iPad – 3.000.000 sold

Makes a total of 56.750.000 devices out there.

Nearly 57 Million devices that are able to show interactive content, but not Flash.

Flash was introduced 2006. This was 14 years ago. In the beginning it was just big and slow, but within the time it got faster and highspeed connections became affordable.
Like every technology out there it got improved with the time. Features like Streaming and XML where build into it.

But, also HTML was growing. If I remember the first days and the really ugly pages back then, the web today has completely turned. After a couple of years CSS got introduced. Today CSS is everywhere. And it is in version 3. JavaScript came after a couple of years, got extended with Ajax. Today, it is everywhere. HTML4/XHTML is already a couple of years old, now the next version is out there.
These are just examples.

Let’s come straigt to the point. If you want to show interactive content, if you want to be on all these devices then there is no way around HTML5. Beside that, HTML5 nearly supports all the functionality you have in Flash. Or lets say it this way, most of the features are there in HTML5. It is more lightweight, it is fast and it runs on 60 Million extra devices.

Actually I am quite impressed what you can do today with HTML5.

Here are some examples of Apple and Google on HTML5ROCKS.com.

There is a good map about browser compatibility on focus.com. It’s worth seeing it.

I don’t think Flash is dead. I just believe that you can do a lot with combining technology. Use the right technology, at the right time, for the right product!

I recently programmed a MiniCMS for a customer.
To make it easier for the customer to edit content, I looked for a opensource wysiwyg editor and I found spaw2.
Spaw2 has really everything you expect from a wysiwyg editor including fileupload.
It’s really easy to integrate.
Just include the library in you php file, start a new instant of the class and show the editor.

include("spaw2/spaw.inc.php");
$spaw = new SpawEditor("content", $content);

$spaw->show();


That’s it!