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Dreaming of a tweet reader conversation viewer

Great post sparked by a little tweet reader: Dave Winer’s little tweet reader: some thoughts. Here’s a “social interaction design specialist” that dreams of a conversation viewer. A very inspired list of what he hopes to see in such an application follows. And he ends, to my surprise, by saying “I think I’m going to [...]

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Retrieve images from RSS – all of them

One of the things that I really wanted the Telexer to be good at, was the ability to show thumbnail images from as much feeds as possible. As there are now so many flavors of RSS, you’ll need to try several options to retrieve images from a feed. In this three-part article I’ll describe how I tackled this.

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WordPress: how to show current category

You can highlight the currently visited category in WordPress – but it’s not a standard thing. You have to add some code to your template. Here’s what I did.

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Get the new 2.10 Telexer

This is the update with the Thawte digital certificate installed – which means an extra guarantee that the application is from a verified, trusted source. No new features in this update.

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Migrating security certificates in AIR

Having acquired the new certificate, I now need to ensure that the app will update smoothly from the old one. The Adobe Developers Tool is the thing for this migration. It just took me quite a while to figure out how to make this command line tool work. So here’s how I finally managed the migration from the self-signed certificate to one with the coveted “verified publisher” status.

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Getting a digitally signed certificate for my AIR app

Although desirable, providing a trusted install- and update process for users leaves me, the developer, a bit dazed & confused – what am I getting into, and why?

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Track user clicks on your AIR Badge – a plugin for WordPress

A quick how-to on tracking clicks on an AIR Badge, worked into a plugin for Wordpress that places the neccessary badge code, and displays click counts on the Settings page.

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No-frills SocialBar plugin

I love *customizing*, so here’s a custom social buttons plugin for WordPress that will not let you customize anything… heh. Basically, it’s made for use within this site, and I only have this fixed set of requirements for the buttons under each post, so I didn’t add any options page to this plugin. I wanted [...]

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