Sean Washington seanwash

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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Create a Meteor app and put the client_/server_ files in a client/server directories. Also, create a public dir to save the uploaded files.

	# lib/custom_logger.rb
	class CustomLogger < Logger
	def format_message(severity, timestamp, progname, msg)
	"#{timestamp.to_formatted_s(:db)} #{severity} #{msg}\n"
	end
	end

	logfile = File.open("#{Rails.root}/log/custom.log", 'a') # create log file
	logfile.sync = true # automatically flushes data to file
	CUSTOM_LOGGER = CustomLogger.new(logfile) # constant accessible anywhere

	# First install tmux
	brew install tmux

	# For mouse support (for switching panes and windows)
	# Only needed if you are using Terminal.app (iTerm has mouse support)
	Install http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php
	Then install https://bitheap.org/mouseterm/

	# More on mouse support http://floriancrouzat.net/2010/07/run-tmux-with-mouse-support-in-mac-os-x-terminal-app/

	<?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>Ansi 0 Color</key>
	<dict>
	<key>Blue Component</key>
	<real>0.30093687772750854</real>
	<key>Green Component</key>
	<real>0.36639997363090515</real>

	<!-- copy this to YOUR_THEME.tmTheme-->
	<dict>
	<key>name</key>
	<string>diff: deleted</string>
	<key>scope</key>
	<string>markup.deleted</string>
	<key>settings</key>
	<dict>
	<key>background</key>
	<string>#EAE3CA</string>


	// create pub-sub functionality
	Backbone.pubSub = _.extend({}, Backbone.Events);

	// view one needs to trigger an event in view2
	View1 = Backbone.View.extend({

	triggerView2Event : function() {
	Backbone.pubSub.trigger('view2event', { 'some' : 'data' } );
	})

	#Steps to install RVM + Ruby 1.9.3 + Rails + nginx + Passenger on CentOS (tested on v5.5)

	# Todo get up to date repo's

	# Install git and curl, if not already installed
	sudo yum install git
	sudo yum install curl-devel

	# Create the rvm group and add any users who will be using rvm to the group
	sudo su -

	<% flash.each do \|type, message\| %>
	<div class="alert <%= bootstrap_class_for(type) %> fade in">
	<button class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</button>
	<%= message %>
	</div>
	<% end %>