Geoffroy Warin geowarin

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.

Twitter

Examples of custom macros for AsciiDoc

Path

path:/home/dallen/[]
path:/etc/my.cnf[]

Key

key:Enter[]

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

	// This method gives you an easier way of calling super
	// when you're using Backbone in plain javascript.
	// It lets you avoid writing the constructor's name multiple
	// times. You still have to specify the name of the method.
	//
	// So instead of having to write:
	//
	// User = Backbone.Model.extend({
	// save: function(attrs) {
	// this.beforeSave(attrs);

	// http://paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/
	// http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/12/20/requestanimationframe-for-smart-er-animating

	// requestAnimationFrame polyfill by Erik Möller. fixes from Paul Irish and Tino Zijdel

	// MIT license

	(function() {
	var lastTime = 0;
	var vendors = ['ms', 'moz', 'webkit', 'o'];

	package com.cadrlife;
	import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
	import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext;

	public class EmbeddedJetty9Server {
	// compile 'org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server:9.0.0.v20130308'
	// compile 'org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-webapp:9.0.0.v20130308'

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
	Server server = new Server(8080);

	# INSTALL AND CONFIGURE BEES SDK
	export BEES_HOME=/opt/cloudbees/cloudbees-sdk/
	export PATH=$PATH:$BEES_HOME
	if [ ! -d ~/.bees ]; then
	bees init -f -a <account name> -ep us -k $BEES_API -s $BEES_SECRET
	fi
	bees plugin:install com.cloudbees.sdk.plugins:bg-plugin


	# DEPLOY

	root = true

	[*]
	charset = utf-8
	end_of_line = lf
	indent_style = space
	indent_size = 4

	[*.java]
	insert_final_newline = true

	/**
	* (Note: Depends on window.requestAnimationFrame for polling.)
	*
	* An experimental Gamepad object for detecting
	* and parsing gamepad input.
	*
	* Current code borrows heavily from Marcin Wichary's work:
	* http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/doodles/gamepad/
	*
	* Also uses deadzone values from