And a hearty ROFL for its Yummy Pie, too (check your WP dashboard if the reference escapes you). In the past few days I got my first taste of a spammers wave on my WordPress site. They were trying everything but the doorbell, but no luck. Akismet saw through all them devious scammers. WassUp as [...]
read onCool information interface minisite
Awesome site, Good is. Minisite called “Road Map To Harmony” is a combination of typography, interface and information design. And a paged-content flash site. With video. Linked to a blog. Great example of the SEO use of SwfAddress. I like… no, I’m jealous
read onDreaming 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 [...]
read onRetrieve 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.
read onWordPress: 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.
read onGet 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.
read onMigrating 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.
read onGetting 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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