Logan Lindquist llbbl

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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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Breaking into Web Development

I work as an analyst contractor, these days my roles are often a mixture of development and management. I have been asked by a countless number of people what they need to do to get the jobs I’m offered – and it’s simpler than most expect. The market for talented developers in the United Kingdom (and in many talent-lite communities around the world) is such that anyone who merely knows what they are doing has a very good chance of getting a job. Even a job contracting (which ordinarily has senior-level requirements).

To become a web developer with a good salary and employment expectations you need skills. Below I’ll provide a plan to get you towards the top of the largest market: PHP Web Development. Advanced knowledge of everything on this list would immediately make you one of the best, so just strive to have an exposure if not a comprehensive understanding (though the *starred points are essential). To learn these technologies you should use several in combination on on

Conventions:

Defining Eloquent model (will assume that DB table named is set as plural of class name and primary key named "id"):

class Shop extends Eloquent {}

Using custom table name

protected $table = 'my_shops';

	<?php die('This file is not really here!');

	/**
	* ------------- DO NOT UPLOAD THIS FILE TO LIVE SERVER ---------------------
	*
	* Implements code completion for CodeIgniter in phpStorm
	* phpStorm indexes all class constructs, so if this file is in the project it will be loaded.
	* -------------------------------------------------------------------
	* Drop the following file into a CI project in phpStorm
	* You can put it in the project root and phpStorm will load it.

	1) Create a smart playlist
	2) Set the settings on the smart playlist to be "date added greater than or equal to" and choose a ridiculously early date, like 1/1/1995
	3) Click the cloud download button on the playlist
	4) Wait

	<?php
	/*
	This is a very tiny proof-of-concept SMTP client. Currently it's over 320 characters (if the var names are compressed). Think you can build one smaller?
	*/

	ini_set('default_socket_timeout', 3);

	$user = '[email protected]';
	$pass = '';
	$host = 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com';

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# MIT © Sindre Sorhus - sindresorhus.com

	# git hook to run a command after `git pull` if a specified file was changed
	# Run `chmod +x post-merge` to make it executable then put it into `.git/hooks/`.

	changed_files="$(git diff-tree -r --name-only --no-commit-id ORIG_HEAD HEAD)"

	check_run() {
	echo "$changed_files" \| grep --quiet "$1" && eval "$2"