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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bitmorse

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booherbg

How to build Golang windows/arm static binaries from linux

Alternate title: Cross compiling Windows/Darwin/Linux amd64/386/arm all from linux

After fumbling around trying to figure out the go toolchain and cross compilation configuration, I ran across the wiki page on Go's homepage. It's super helpful, and worked out of the box. I'm including the necessary scripts here in case they get changed or lost, and we can help Google find it (since it's the first real source I've found that "Just Worked"). http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/WindowsCrossCompiling