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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 [...]


Trip to Dublin

I was invited to Dublin for 2 days. I departed at around zero degrees with snowfall and arrived at a felt 15degree Celsius more. Had blue sky and a really warm day on friday. Saturday was a bit misty, windy and ~10deg. I took the bus to O’Connell street on both days. Then did the [...]


Experimenting with Google-Adsense

As you might have noticed, i added something to the blog … It’s more or less an experiment to see if and what will happen on a (very) special-interest site like mine …


Realtime Traffic Messages

Update: constantly improving the decoder … I finally set up a small embedded linux computer (ZFx86 @ 100MHz, 32MB) with one of my mp5_redux PC104 add-on boards to receive and decode TMC (Traffic Message Channel)-messages out of RDS (Radio Data System). The system is set up to receive SWR3 (coverage: nrw, hessen, rheinland-pfalz, saarland, baden-württemberg, [...]


flex: Making a percentage-sized VBox scroll

If you’re using a VBox with a pixel height, it will scroll as expected. If you’re using a percentage sized VBox, it won’t scroll when it’s content grows in size: the scrollbars will be “pushed somewhere up the component hierarchy”. To make it scroll, set it’s minHeight=0. Found this here.