Jon Danao jondanao

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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Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

Project Title

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Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

3D Secure flow

Verify cardholder is enrolled in 3D Secure program

Submit card and merchant information to https://mpi.3dsecure.io (MPI) according to:

http://docs.3dsecure.io/#enrolled

The response will include:

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	#
	# Converts any integer into a base [BASE] number. I have chosen 62
	# as it is meant to represent the integers using all the alphanumeric
	# characters, [no special characters] = {0..9}, {A..Z}, {a..z}
	#
	# I plan on using this to shorten the representation of possibly long ids,
	# a la url shortenters
	#

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
	<plist version="1.0">
	<dict>
	<key>items</key>
	<array>
	<dict>
	<key>assets</key>
	<array>
	<dict>

	#!/bin/bash
	# from here: http://www.codingsteps.com/install-redis-2-6-on-amazon-ec2-linux-ami-or-centos/
	# and here: https://raw.github.com/gist/257849/9f1e627e0b7dbe68882fa2b7bdb1b2b263522004/redis-server
	###############################################
	# To use:
	# wget https://raw.github.com/gist/2776679/04ca3bbb9f085b192f6aca945120fe12d59f15f9/install-redis.sh
	# chmod 777 install-redis.sh
	# ./install-redis.sh
	###############################################
	echo "*****************************************"

	from fabric.api import env, local, require


	def deploy():
	"""fab [environment] deploy"""
	require('environment')
	maintenance_on()
	push()
	syncdb()
	migrate()

	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	import os

	os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "project.settings")

	import newrelic.agent
	newrelic.agent.initialize(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'newrelic.ini')

	from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
	application = get_wsgi_application()

	<toolSet name="Code Checking">
	<tool name="Flake8" showInMainMenu="true" showInEditor="true" showInProject="true" showInSearchPopup="true" disabled="false" useConsole="true" showConsoleOnStdOut="false" showConsoleOnStdErr="false" synchronizeAfterRun="true">
	<exec>
	<option name="COMMAND" value="/usr/local/bin/flake8" />
	<option name="PARAMETERS" value="--max-complexity 10 $FilePath$" />
	<option name="WORKING_DIRECTORY" value="$ProjectFileDir$" />
	</exec>
	<filter>
	<option name="NAME" value="Filter 1" />
	<option name="DESCRIPTION" />