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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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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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Accepted at Adobe Air Marketplace

Telexer has just gone live at the Air Marketplace, woohoo! I think the page there looks neat. But no e-mail offering a free code signing certificate; haha, I wonder if my recent EULA post has something to do with that?

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Adobe Air and the EULA

A commercial Air app like .telexer needs a EULA too, but there’s no way to add one to the Air installer. It seems Adobe Air isn’t quite grown up yet in that respect.

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