jonathanmoore

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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ludviglindblom

/**
 * CSS3 Border-Radius with Border - Circle Avatars
 */
 
/* General Styles */

body {  background: url(http://subtlepatterns.com/patterns/white_texture.png);
	font: 100 14px sans-serif;
	color: #444555; text-shadow: 0 2px white;
	text-align: center;	

jnx

# Update, upgrade and install development tools:
apt-get update
apt-get -y upgrade
apt-get -y install build-essential
apt-get -y install git-core

# Install rbenv
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git /usr/local/rbenv

# Add rbenv to the path:

jraines

Install Rails 3.1 RC

gem install rails --pre

generate new app, skipping Test::Unit file generation

rails new my_app -T

Set up Gemfile

andruby

after "deploy:symlink", "deploy:restart_workers"

##
# Rake helper task.
# http://pastie.org/255489
# http://geminstallthat.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/rake-tasks-through-capistrano/
# http://ananelson.com/said/on/2007/12/30/remote-rake-tasks-with-capistrano/
def run_remote_rake(rake_cmd)
  rake_args = ENV['RAKE_ARGS'].to_s.split(',')
  cmd = "cd #{fetch(:latest_release)} && #{fetch(:rake, "rake")} RAILS_ENV=#{fetch(:rails_env, "production")} #{rake_cmd}"

zhengjia

=Navigating=
    visit('/projects')
    visit(post_comments_path(post))

=Clicking links and buttons=
    click_link('id-of-link')
    click_link('Link Text')
    click_button('Save')
    click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
    click('Button Value')

defunkt

# If your workers are inactive for a long period of time, they'll lose
# their MySQL connection.
#
# This hack ensures we re-connect whenever a connection is
# lost. Because, really. why not?
#
# Stick this in RAILS_ROOT/config/initializers/connection_fix.rb (or somewhere similar)
#
# From:
#   http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/activerecord-threading-issues-and-resolutions/