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Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons. Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.

If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre

Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future. Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.

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I just had to set up Jenkins to use GitHub. My notes (to myself, mostly):

Detailed Instructions

For setting up Jenkins to build GitHub projects. This assumes some ability to manage Jenkins, use the command line, set up a utility LDAP account, etc. Please share or improve this Gist as needed.

Install Jenkins Plugins

get both the git and github plugin
http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Git+Plugin

A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.

Index:

create a new redis .conf file

$ cp /etc/redis.conf /etc/redis-xxx.conf

edit /etc/redis-xxx.conf, illustrated as below

...

	/**
	* A little script that will screw up people using campaigns on Google
	* Analytics.
	*
	* Do. Not. Use.
	*
	* I am not responsible for any action that people may employ using this
	* little script. It was done purely out of curiosity.
	*
	* Usage:

	# Follows the squid format in default:
	# logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
	# http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/logformat/

	%{NUMBER:timestamp}\s+%{NUMBER:response_time} %{IPORHOST:src_ip} %{WORD:squid_request_status}/%{NUMBER:http_status_code} %{NUMBER:reply_size_include_header} %{WORD:http_method} %{URI:request_url} %{USERNAME:user} %{WORD:squid_hierarchy_status}/%{IPORHOST:server_ip_or_peer_name} (?<mime_content_type>\S+\/\S+)

	# Modify this file accordingly for your specific requirement.
	# http://www.thegeekstuff.com
	# 1. Delete all existing rules
	iptables -F

	# 2. Set default chain policies
	iptables -P INPUT DROP
	iptables -P FORWARD DROP
	iptables -P OUTPUT DROP

	# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
	openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

	// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
	console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console