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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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Here are a list of headless browsers that I know about:

• [HtmlUnit][1] - Java. Custom browser engine. JavaScript support/DOM emulated. Open source.
• [Ghost][2] - Python only. WebKit-based. Full JavaScript support. Open source.
• [Twill][3] - Python/command line. Custom browser engine. No JavaScript. Open source.
• [PhantomJS][4] - Command line/all platforms. WebKit-based. Full JavaScript support. Open source.
• [Awesomium][5] - C++/.Net/all platforms. Chromium-based. Full JavaScript support. Commercial/free.
• [SimpleBrowser][6] - .Net 4/C#. Custom browser engine. No JavaScript support. Open source.
• [ZombieJS][7] - Node.js. Custom browser engine. JavaScript support/emulated DOM. Open source.
• [EnvJS][8] - JavaScript via Java/Rhino. Custom browser engine. JavaScript support/emulated DOM. Open source.

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<?php
/**
 * Created by PhpStorm.
 * User: Administrator
 * Date: 13/05/2015
 * Time: 9:18 SA
 */

namespace App\Services;

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<?php

# Cron job command for Laravel 4.2
# Inspired by Laravel 5's new upcoming scheduler (https://laravel-news.com/2014/11/laravel-5-scheduler)
#
# Author: Soren Schwert (GitHub: sisou)
#
# Requirements:
# =============
# PHP 5.4

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#~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
[Added Associations]
#...
x-scheme-handler/subl=subl-urlhandler.desktop

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import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import javafx.application.*;
import javafx.collections.FXCollections;
import javafx.event.*;
import javafx.scene.*;
import javafx.scene.control.*;
import javafx.scene.effect.*;
import javafx.scene.image.*;
import javafx.scene.web.HTMLEditor;

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<?php namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

/**
 * If the incoming request is an OPTIONS request
 * we will register a handler for the requested route
 */
class CatchAllOptionsRequestsProvider extends ServiceProvider {

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Work in Progress: More testing to be done.
At a glance Authentication, Activation, Throttle, Groups & Permissions seem to 
be working.

Downside: Copy and modify files.
Upside: Not really much work to get it up and running.

Assumes you have Laravel 5.1, jenssegers/laravel-mongodb + session addon set up
and your app is namespaced to App/

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##################################################################
# /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
#
# Base configuration for a write heavy cluster
#

# Cluster / Node Basics
cluster.name: logng

# Node can have abritrary attributes we can use for routing

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Change Java Runtime:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

Delete Open-JDK

sudo apt-get purge openjdk-\* icedtea-\* icedtea6-\*