Is there any other alternative (commercial or not) to OpenX Source to build my own ad network in which my publishers suggest their sides and get their custom tags automatically?
Most of other adservers, like Adzerk or EPOM have just reporting API's if I am fine which would make impossible what I have in mind.
Check with www.dreamajax.com and they have product with unique interfaces built on top of OpenX and many adnetworks and adservers at present use their platform. They have also extended it for Mobile, In-Game and Video.
I suggest you look at www.switchconcepts.com, contact david.lane#switchconcepts.com. Switch supports many ad networks and publishers. We can explore your precise requirements and see if we support these. I suspect we already do. We are a commercial adserver (with industry leading support) with integrated RTB and private exchange support.
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What considerations are needed when creating a web app that is intended to be used in an industrial plant setting for a company? My specific use case is an industrial facility with several different production plants that would each have its own device for the application interface.
How do companies enforce the usage of such apps on a monitor/tablet? For example, could I prevent them from using other stuff on the tablet?
Importantly, how would security work? They'd share a device. There may be multiple operators that use the app in a given shift. Would they all use the same authentication session (this is not preferable, as I'd like to uniquely identify the active user)? Obviously I could use standard username/passwords with token based sessions that expire, however, this leaves a lot of potential for account hijacking. Ideally, they'd be able to log on very quickly (PIN, perhaps?) and their session would end when they are done.
As long as there is internet connection, I would presume that there isn't much pro/con regarding the use of native applications versus web based or progressive web apps. Is this assumption correct?
What's the best way of identifying which device the application is being run on?
Is this a common thing to do in general? What other technologies are used to create software that obtains input from industrial operators?
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Update - this is a good higher level consideration of the question at hand, however, it has become apparent why focused, specific questions are helpful. As such, I will follow up with questions that are specific.
Identifying the Area/Device a Web Application is Accessed On
Enforcing Specific Application Use on Tablets
Best Practices for Web App Authentication in Industrial Settings
I'm not able to answer everything in great detail but here are a few pointers. In the environment as you describe we usually see these two options. 1) you tell them what you need, internet, security, if they give you device and how it will be configured 2) they tell you exactly what you need to deliver.
I do not think you can 100% prevent them. We did it by providing the tablet( well laptops in our case) and the OS configuration took care of that, downside we had few devices to support. You seem to hint that there is always an internet connection so I guess you can collect all info about the system and send it back to you daily?
We were allowed to "tap" into their attendance SW and when you entered the facility you were able to use your 4 digit pin to log in if you were out of premisses you could not log in at all. I can imagine the following: you log in with your username and password - this does full verification, after that, you can use 4 digit pin to login for next n hours.
maybe, kinda, depends on what you are doing. Does the browser have all features you need? Our system needs multicast to perform really fast, so we have a native app
touched on this in 1. You could also use device enrolment process. You can also contractually force them that there will be only your software and it may invalidate support contract. It really depends on your creativity. My favourite( and it works - just tell them, there will only be installed my software and if not you will pay me double for support. I only saw one customer who installed some crap on the device when there were told not to
it really depends on what industry you are talking about, every industry is different. We almost always build a custom solution
The enforcement of the device/app usage depends on the customer, if the customer asked for help in the enforcement, then you can provide guide, training and workshops. If the customer serious about the enforcement then it will be a policy that's adapted by all the organization from top to down. Usually seniors will resist a workflow change more than juniors, so top management/executive should deal with that. Real life story: SAP team took 6 months to transform major newspaper workflow, during that few seniors got fired because they refuse to adapt the change.
Security shouldn't handicap the users, usually in industrial environment the network is isolated or at least restricted through VPN to connect multiple sites (plants in your case), regarding the active user: we usually provide guide/training/workshop for the users and inform them that using colleague account or device will prevent the system from tracking your accomplishment/tasks, so each user is responsible to make sure the active account/device is the one assigned to him/her.
It depends, with native you have more controls than web, but if the app is just doing monitoring then most of today apps use web for monitoring and the common way to receive input is REST APIs (even if the industrial devices doesn't support REST API, a middleware could be written to transform the output). If you need more depth about native vs web you need to ask new question with more details about the requirements.
Depends on the tech you are using (native or web), and things I mentioned in point 2: you can use whitelist of devices that's allowed to run the app. overall there are many best ways to track down the device.
How common in general? I think such information can only be achieved by survey, the world full of variations. And having something common not mean its safe or best, our industry keep changing at all levels. So to stay in the loop, we must keep learning and self-updating without reboot.
Let me take an example, I wanted to use Google Places API in my app. But due to usage limit it only allows me to use 1000/day requests for one key. So what I did was created multiple keys from different gmail accounts. I am using these multiple keys in one app. Is it allowed to use commercially?
Google already mentions that on the documents
You can use one Developers Console project to manage all of your work, or you can create multiple projects, depending on your development and collaboration needs. Consider whether you're collaborating with a different set of people, want to track usage differently, or need to set different traffic controls for different parts of your work. If so, breaking up your work into multiple projects might make sense. That said, you cannot use multiple projects to try to exceed API usage limits.
From :Google Docs : Creating and shutting down projects
So you cant use it multiple key for project its better to use the commercial package offer by google.
Try use the Google Place for web, it haven't requests limit. I think you are developing for android, so
use this tutorial: http://wptrafficanalyzer.in/blog/showing-nearby-places-and-place-details-using-google-places-api-and-google-maps-android-api-v2/
Is there a single open source library which contains API calls for each brokers to do common functionalities like, get price ticks, submit orders?
for ex)
buy("MSFT",33); //will send buy order to Interactive Brokers, MBtrade etc.
Basically I am looking to run some algorithm trades to multiple brokers.
Is there an existing solution out there?
paid ones would be okay too.
preferably Java or cross-platform support.
Algo-Trader and Tradelink are a couple of platforms that provide the capability to connect to multiple brokers and data providers using a single programming interface.
If you want to check out a paid option you can check out Openquant or RightEdge - both provide a month's free trial.
There are quite a few trading platforms out there but only you'll be in a position to decide which one best fits your needs.
Quickfixj is an open source FIX engine for Java
Cameron is a commercially available.
I have worked on both of them so I can recommend them but you have to evaluate each one for your needs before you decide on one.
There are multiples of them available, just google for a FIX engine.
Also there is Tradelink and CEP Trader
I am working on a system using php/mysql where I am allowing users to subscribe monthly to various, small browser based web apps. Each app will have different subscription terms and plans. The apps are all currently built and they reside within the same framework.
I am in the modeling phase so I am looking to make this system as flexible as possible wheren the terms from one plan to the next will vary. Any thoughts on how to elegantly model this?
Rather than building this yourself you could look into using something like Zuora.com. Please note that I haven't used these guys or have any affiliation, I just remember reading something about services like this starting to emerge for web-app publishers needing a simple billing/metering solution.
Of course, you also need to consider which payment gateways you support, but I think that Zuora does that behind the scenes.
I am developing software which I want to sell online. The typical pay the vender, get a digital key that unlocks the application scenario.
I've never set this up before, does anyone have any info on good service providers, and things I need to know when setting this up?
Microsoft uses digital river, maybe check them out?
You can checkout a typical license acquisition flow using FastSpring
FastSpring / NetLicensing flow
This combines FastSpring e-Commerce and NetLicensing license management.
You did not say what language you are planning on using, but this is a great solution for a .net compiled language:
http://xheo.com/products/copy-protection
It provides two key features. First the ability to automatically generate your licenses based on many different ecommerce solutions so you don't have to keep paying a 3rd party a % for it. Second, it offers code protection to prevent people from using Reflection on your software to crack it / steal your intellectual rights. (note i said prevent, not completely stop)
I'm using FastSpring, you give them binary file and keys, and you setup your account to send an email that contains these two informations. you can tell them what you want and they will do it for you