Phillipp Ohlandt PhillippOhlandt

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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Find the SD card device

In this case, the SD card is /dev/disk4. DO NOT get this wrong or you may destroy all the data on the wrong disk/card/drive.

diskutil list

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *160.0 GB   disk0

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

Deploying a subfolder to GitHub Pages

Sometimes you want to have a subdirectory on the master branch be the root directory of a repository’s gh-pages branch. This is useful for things like sites developed with Yeoman, or if you have a Jekyll site contained in the master branch alongside the rest of your code.

For the sake of this example, let’s pretend the subfolder containing your site is named dist.

Step 1

Remove the dist directory from the project’s .gitignore file (it’s ignored by default by Yeoman).

just change out app_name for your purposes

openssl genrsa 2048 > app_name-wildcard.key

openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha1 -days 3650 -key app_name-wildcard.key > app_name-wildcard.cert

# Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:*.app_name.com

openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint -text &lt; app_name-wildcard.cert &gt; app_name-wildcard.info

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Setting up a SSL Cert from Comodo

I use Namecheap.com as a registrar, and they resale SSL Certs from a number of other companies, including Comodo.

These are the steps I went through to set up an SSL cert.

	# Install a Webserver
	apt-get -y install apache2
	# Target docroot to /home/satis/web/


	# Install PHP5 CLI and needed programs.
	apt-get -y install php5-cli php5-curl php5-json git wget

	# Add a specifix user for our task
	adduser satis

	<?php

	use Illuminate\Console\Command;
	use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
	use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;


	class ClearBeanstalkdQueueCommand extends Command {

	/**

	package main

	import "fmt"

	func main() {
	x:= [5]float64{
	98,
	93,
	77,
	82,

	// A small SSH daemon providing bash sessions
	//
	// Server:
	// cd my/new/dir/
	// #generate server keypair
	// ssh-keygen -t rsa
	// go get -v .
	// go run sshd.go
	//
	// Client: