Jere Salonen hellojere

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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	## If you are using under a rails project,
	## I recommend to put this script onto config/initializer instead of applying the patch

	module Compass::SassExtensions::Functions::GradientSupport

	class ColorStop < Sass::Script::Literal

	def initialize(color, stop = nil)
	self.options = {}
	if color.is_a?(Sass::Script::String) && color.value == 'transparent'

	import sublime, sublime_plugin
	import os

	class DetectFileTypeCommand(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
	""" Detects current file type if the file's extension isn't conclusive """
	""" Modified for Ruby on Rails and Sublime Text 2 """
	""" Original pastie here: http://pastie.org/private/kz8gtts0cjcvkec0d4quqa """

	def on_load(self, view):
	filename = view.file_name()

	## Prepare ###################################################################

	# Remove RVM
	rvm implode

	# Ensure your homebrew is working properly and up to date
	brew doctor
	brew update

	## Install ###################################################################

	#! /bin/bash

	### BEGIN INIT INFO
	# Provides: unicorn
	# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
	# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
	# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
	# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
	# Short-Description: starts the unicorn web server
	# Description: starts unicorn

	# 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

	# Extras for RubyGems and Rails:
	apt-get -y install zlib1g-dev
	apt-get -y install libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev
	apt-get -y install libreadline5-dev

	# ...

	gem 'carrierwave'
	gem 'fog', '~> 1.0.0' # Need to specify version, as carrierwave references older (0.9.0) which doesn't allow configuration of Rackspace UK Auth URL

	gem 'dragonfly', '~>0.9.4'

	group :production do
	gem 'fog' # for Amazon S3
	end

	=semantic_form_for [:admin, @dog], validate: true, html: {multipart: true} do \|f\|
	=f.inputs do
	=f.input :name
	=f.input :kennel_name
	=f.input :birthdate
	=f.input :gender, as: :radio, collection: {'Tik' => 'F', 'Hane' => 'M'}
	=f.input :father_id, as: :select, collection: @dogs
	=f.input :mother_id, as: :select, collection: @bitches

	=f.semantic_fields_for :pictures do \|pic\|