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Small GeoFeeder Updates

After quite some time, i managed to add some updates to GeoFeeder.
All of this “just in time” for the code signing certificate to run out end of next month. I’m still struggling to find good reasons to get a new certidicate. Donations anyone?


GeoFeeder now officially signed

With the new, official certificate from Chosen Security, i created a new version of GeoFeeder (with only an increased version number) with my new certificate. Then used
..\sdks\3.2.0\bin\adt -migrate -storetype pkcs12 -keystore self_signed_cert.p12 GeoFeeder_121.air GeoFeeder_121_certswitch.air
to manually wrap it with the old, self-signed signature. This way an update can be verified by the installed version (via the [...]


Code-signing AIR applications and migration

Adobe granted me a free code signing certificate (for 1 year):

Things are a little less “red” now.
The first mail stated i should go to Thawte (which i had used for webserver certs multiple times) and apply for a cert. Ok, setup an account, added all info, submitted on 21st of february.  On 23rd they told [...]


GeoRSS Viewer/Reader in AIR

Just did a quick wrapper around the GeoRSS reader classes, got GeoFeeder; then simply couldn’t stop to improve it.
Try any GeoRSS feed you know of, but be aware: every feed sucessfully parsed will be “recorded” for all other users to see.
See the GeoFeeder page for details.
Please upgrade your Flash Player This is the content that [...]


File caching made (not so) simple

I wanted my Digital Signage solution to be less vulnerable to network losses (and save some bandwidth). As the client exists as a flex-version for browser preview and a AIR runtime version on the Panels, i had to come up with a solution providing a minimalistic interface with minimal code changes needed. So a event-based [...]