Monthly Archives: October 2007

Outbrain

October 23, 2007
By Mike

A few months back I got feedback from John LoGioco at Outbrain, with regard to tying Wizz RSS into the Outbrain API. At first I was a little put off, mainly because the cynical anti-marketing portion of my brain started ringing alarm bells. Of course John’s almost lunatic-fringe-cult evangelizing of Outbrain didn’t help. I’m...

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Published by COMPUTERBILD

October 6, 2007
By Mike

On Thursday 04 October I got some feedback from Anne L. Tobing. The “feedback” actually wasn’t feedback at all, but rather a request for permission to distribute Wizz RSS along with a future edition of the COMPUTERBILD magazine. Here is a copy and paste of the important part of the feedback (I have removed...

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The chain of trust

October 2, 2007
By Mike

Possibly one of the most difficult things for any Firefox extension developer, is digitally signing an XPI. I first tried to sign the Wizz RSS XPI more than a year ago. It was an exercise in frustration, even though it did yield some insight into what I consider to be an overly complex process....

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