Nicholas O'Donnell nicholasodonnell

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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Git Cheat Sheet

Initial Setup

Initialize a repo

Create an empty git repo or reinitialize an existing one

git init

Templating in EE vs. Craft CMS.

Here are a few common tasks you might do in your templates, as they would be written in ExpressionEngine vs. Craft CMS.

	#!/bin/bash

	if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" -o -z "$1" ]; then cat <<EOF
	appify v3.0.1 for Mac OS X - http://mths.be/appify
	Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script.

	Appify takes a shell script as its first argument:

	`basename "$0"` my-script.sh

	<!doctype html>

	<!-- http://taylor.fausak.me/2015/01/27/ios-8-web-apps/ -->

	<html>
	<head>
	<title>iOS 8 web app</title>

	<!-- CONFIGURATION -->

	-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
	SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
	ORDER BY query_start desc;

	-- show running queries (9.2)
	SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'

	config_files = Dir.glob("#{ENV['HOME']}/Library/Application Support/Viscosity/OpenVPN/*/config.conf")
	config_files.each do \|file\|
	certificate_files = ['ca', 'cert', 'key', 'tls-auth']
	config_dir = File.dirname(file)
	connection_name = nil
	new_config = []

	File.read(file).each do \|line\|
	line.strip!

	#!/bin/bash

	# generate new personal ed25519 ssh keys
	ssh-keygen -o -a 100 -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -C "rob thijssen <[email protected]>"
	ssh-keygen -o -a 100 -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/id_robtn -C "rob thijssen <[email protected]>"

	# generate new host cert authority (host_ca) ed25519 ssh key
	# used for signing host keys and creating host certs
	ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f manta_host_ca -C manta.network