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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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Deploy your site with git

This gist assumes:

you have a local git repo
with an online remote repository (github / bitbucket etc)
and a cloud server (Rackspace cloud / Amazon EC2 etc)
- your (PHP) scripts are served from /var/www/html/
- your webpages are executed by apache
apache's home directory is /var/www/

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# Install Postgres 9.2 on a clean Ubuntu 12.04

	"""
	LC_ALL issue
	comment out the AcceptEnv LANG LC_* line in the remote /etc/ssh/sshd_config file.
	sudo apt-get install language-pack-en-base
	sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
	comment out the SendEnv LANG LC_* line in the local /etc/ssh/ssh_config file.

	#!upstart

	description "your fancy description that no one will see ;)"
	author "Your Name <youremail@fqdn>"

	# start on every run level, 2 is the one on Ubuntu
	start on runlevel [2345]

	# stop on halt, maintenance or reboot
	stop on runlevel [016]

	#
	# http://peric.github.com/GetCountries/
	#

	CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `countries` (
	`idCountry` int(5) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
	`countryCode` char(2) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
	`countryName` varchar(80) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
	`currencyCode` char(3) DEFAULT NULL,
	PRIMARY KEY (`idCountry`)

	echo off

	set app="%AppData%\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox.exe"

	taskkill -F -IM "Dropbox.exe"

	start "Restart Dropbox" %app% -B;

	# Install Dependencies
	# sudo apt-get install build-essential
	# sudo apt-get build-dep php5
	sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev mysql-client libcurl4-openssl-dev libgd2-xpm-dev libjpeg-dev libpng3-dev libxpm-dev libfreetype6-dev libt1-dev libmcrypt-dev libxslt1-dev bzip2 libbz2-dev libxml2-dev libevent-dev libltdl-dev libmagickwand-dev libmagickcore-dev imagemagick libreadline-dev libc-client-dev libsnmp-dev snmpd snmp libvpx-dev libxpm-dev libgmp3-dev libicu-dev libpspell-dev libtidy-dev freetds-dev unixodbc-dev librecode-dev libglib2.0-dev libsasl2-dev libgeoip-dev imagemagick libmagickcore-dev libmagickwand-dev

	# Stop Apache
	sudo service apache2 stop

	# Cleanup Packages
	sudo apt-get autoremove

	<?php

	// Snippet for Symfony 2 application that uses Doctrine 2 to handle transactions
	// It uses the names of the objects/doctrine repositories from the Beta 4 Manual of Symfony 2.

	// Get the entity manager
	$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();

	// suspend auto-commit
	$em->getConnection()->beginTransaction();

	<?php
	require 'path-to-Stripe.php';

	if ($_POST) {
	Stripe::setApiKey("YOUR-API-KEY");
	$error = '';
	$success = '';
	try {
	if (!isset($_POST['stripeToken']))
	throw new Exception("The Stripe Token was not generated correctly");

	(function($) {
	// Backbone code in here
	})(jQuery);