Re: New random discoveries?
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2005
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 60705
interpreted = N
texte = Thank you for your suggestion. This does help if I decide I have to code= around the random "bug" which I don't want to do. Thanks again. Anybody else have any suggestions? Justin Carroll > What we did with the one I built is set a weight for important banners.= Then > we search the weight db to get a lvl to grab. > > Example: > > WEIGHT > 1 > 2 > 2 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 4 > 4 > 4 > 4 > > Doing this allowed us to assign an importance level to a banner. So tho= se > with a weight of 4 will be 4 times as likely to show. Then we have an > impressions value that we check to see if all in this weight have been = > reached. If not then we show it, if yes then we get a new weight not eq= ual > to this weight and go again. > > This make since at all? HTH! > > Ron > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Justin Carroll"
> To: "WebDNA Talk" > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 12:47 PM > Subject: New random discoveries? > > > I've created a banner rotating system and have noticed that random isn'= t so > random just like many people have on the talk-list. After reading the = > talk-list e-mail database it seemed like using "allhit=3D1" was the sol= ution > so I tried it and it didn't work for me. Here's my search string: > > [search > db=3Dtest.db&neskudatarq=3D[blank]&skusort=3D1&skusdir=3Dra&skutype=3Dn= um&max=3D1&allhit=3D1] > > It's crucial to my banner system that the banners reach a certain amoun= t of > views in a month's time. One way we thought to fix this is by taking t= he > banners that have reached their quota for the month and turn them off s= o > that the other banners can catch up. This won't be efficient in the fu= ture > when the volume of banners running increases. We don't need a system t= hat > must show every banner and keeps track of that (we would use a temporar= y db > to do that) we just need a random that has a less dramatic bell curve. = And > we don't want to recode part of our system based on poor random perform= ance. > > Have there been any new discoveries with WebDNA's random function? Wha= t are > other people doing to get around this problem? Has SM said anything to= > anyone? Thanks. > > Justin Carroll > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:
Thank you for your suggestion. This does help if I decide I have to code= around the random "bug" which I don't want to do. Thanks again. Anybody else have any suggestions? Justin Carroll > What we did with the one I built is set a weight for important banners.= Then > we search the weight db to get a lvl to grab. > > Example: > > WEIGHT > 1 > 2 > 2 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 4 > 4 > 4 > 4 > > Doing this allowed us to assign an importance level to a banner. So tho= se > with a weight of 4 will be 4 times as likely to show. Then we have an > impressions value that we check to see if all in this weight have been = > reached. If not then we show it, if yes then we get a new weight not eq= ual > to this weight and go again. > > This make since at all? HTH! > > Ron > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Justin Carroll" > To: "WebDNA Talk" > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 12:47 PM > Subject: New random discoveries? > > > I've created a banner rotating system and have noticed that random isn'= t so > random just like many people have on the talk-list. After reading the = > talk-list e-mail database it seemed like using "allhit=3D1" was the sol= ution > so I tried it and it didn't work for me. Here's my search string: > > [search > db=3Dtest.db&neskudatarq=3D[blank]&skusort=3D1&skusdir=3Dra&skutype=3Dn= um&max=3D1&allhit=3D1] > > It's crucial to my banner system that the banners reach a certain amoun= t of > views in a month's time. One way we thought to fix this is by taking t= he > banners that have reached their quota for the month and turn them off s= o > that the other banners can catch up. This won't be efficient in the fu= ture > when the volume of banners running increases. We don't need a system t= hat > must show every banner and keeps track of that (we would use a temporar= y db > to do that) we just need a random that has a less dramatic bell curve. = And > we don't want to recode part of our system based on poor random perform= ance. > > Have there been any new discoveries with WebDNA's random function? Wha= t are > other people doing to get around this problem? Has SM said anything to= > anyone? Thanks. > > Justin Carroll > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
"Justin Carroll"
DOWNLOAD WEBDNA NOW!
Top Articles:
Talk List
The WebDNA community talk-list is the best place to get some help: several hundred extremely proficient programmers with an excellent knowledge of WebDNA and an excellent spirit will deliver all the tips and tricks you can imagine...
Related Readings:
Plugin or CGI or both (1997)
list/menus (2000)
[WebDNA] Databases not staying open (2010)
Emailer choke (1997)
Re:PCS Customer submissions ? (1997)
Listfiles and nothing found (2001)
Grant, please help me ... (1997)
READFILE command? (1998)
Pass Thru Page? (1998)
Limiting user access to .tmpl files (1997)
Test (2003)
2nd WebCatalog2 Feature Request (1996)
Sorting by date (1997)
SSL/Document Contains NO Data (1998)
formatting dates from a field ... (1997)
[WebDNA] Friday's.. WIP thread (2009)
[WebDNA] Just drop the Server version (2015)
[SearchString] usage (1997)
[WebDNA] Error 500 with SUMM=T (2017)
EIMS Problems (1997)