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Javascript Social Sharing Buttons : Socialite.js

2011-12-16T06:49:00.002+08:00

David Bushell has written a little bit of Javascript Social Sharing Buttons called Socialite.js that simplifies the implementation of social sharing buttons like “tweet”, “like” and Google+1!. Socialite provides a very easy way to implement and activate a plethora of social sharing buttons — any time you wish. On document load, on article hover, on any event!

Features:

No more tedious copy/paste!
No dependencies to use.
Loads external resources only when needed.
Less than 2kb when minified and compressed.
More accessible and styleable defaults/fallbacks.
Built in support for Twitter, Google+, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Extendable with other social networks.
Mimics native implementation when activated.
Supported in all browsers (providing the buttons are).

This script is particularly useful if you have multiple instances on one page — a blog index for example. You can defer loading until the user hovers over an article (TechCrunch has a very rudimentary implementation of this technique). Or do something more imaginative, such as activating buttons when an article scrolls into view! Socialite.js is a tiny foundation that makes these sort of choices very easy to build.

Demo : http://www.socialitejs.com/
Download :https://github.com/dbushell/Socialite
License : MIT License

One Hundred Push-Ups, From 0 to 100 in 6 weeks

2008-07-17T19:33:00.004+08:00

If you're serious about increasing your strength, follow this six week training program and you'll soon be on your way to completing 100 consecutive push ups!

Think there's no way you could do this? I think you can! All you need is a good plan, plenty of discipline and about 30 minutes a week to achive this goal!

No doubt some of you can already do 50 consecutive push ups, but let's face it, you're in a big minority. Most of you reading this won't even be able to manage 20 pushups. Actually, I'm sure many of you can't even do 10.

However, it really doesn't matter which group you fall into. If you follow the progressive push ups training program, I'm positive you'll soon be able to do 100 push ups!

10 tips for optimizing mysql queries

2007-04-10T18:05:00.000+08:00

10 tips to help improve the speed of your mysql queries

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Why Use Software Illegally When You Can Use Legally Free Replacements?

2007-04-10T18:04:00.000+08:00

If you run Linux and install free software, you won
’t have to worry about this ever again! Most of free (as in free speech) software is free (as in free beer). You can find a free replacement for most of the commercial software out there. Here’s a list of some commercial software, and their open source equivalents.

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Philippine User Groups for Ruby and Ruby on Rails

2007-02-27T14:15:00.000+08:00

I really would like to spread the good news for Ruby and Ruby on Rails to Filipino developers. The group aims to provide information from ground up, its advantages to the business side. It might be hard to convince your Manager to use Ruby or Ruby on Rails but we'll try to tackle all those positive things that anybody could use.

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Philippine User Groups for Ruby and Ruby on Rails

2007-02-27T14:10:00.000+08:00

A new TDD Advocate

2007-02-26T13:22:00.000+08:00

This is the first time that I will talk about this topic. I have heard of it a long long time ago, but until just lately that I did it. My first impression of TDD is a waste of time and energy when I knew it.

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A common rails deployment mistake

2007-02-24T20:32:00.000+08:00

It took me several hours to figure out why my rails application is too slow upon deployment. Hope it doesn't happen to you.

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A common rails deployment mistake

2007-02-24T20:29:00.000+08:00

It took me several hours to figure out why my rails application is too slow upon deployment. Hope it doesn't happen to you.

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Lamborghini Police Car - Dont even TRY TO RUN !

2006-11-17T17:56:00.000+08:00

Some European highways are designed for speed and there is no speed limits in certain areas. This Lambordhini Police Car is probably the best way to discourage anyone from a police chase.

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The World's Biggest Machine "Chews Up" a Bulldozer (pictures)

2006-11-17T17:48:00.000+08:00

The giant mining excavator eats up a stray bulldozer for lunch, after making a spectacular "hike" across the countryside.

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Global Rails Ajax Indicator

2006-11-16T17:02:00.000+08:00

If you are doing AJAX with RoR, you might have encountered doing the following:


<%= link_to_remote "Create",
 :url => { :action => 'ajax_create' },
 :update => 'container',
 :loading => "$('indicator').show();",
 :complete => "$('indicator').hide();" %>

And you might be doing the :loading and :complete thing over and over again to all your AJAX links. You can cut that off and leave that thing to a single place. You need to update /public/javascripts/application.js and place the following code:


Ajax.Responders.register({
onCreate: function() {
  if (Ajax.activeRequestCount > 0)
    Element.show('indicator');
},
onComplete: function() {
  if (Ajax.activeRequestCount == 0)
    Element.hide('indicator');
}
});

The code simply displays the element with the indicator "id" when an AJAX activity is in progress and hides it when all is done.

Hope that saves you some time.

Mac OS X 10.4.8 upgrade boosts Photoshop 35% on Mactel

2006-11-15T04:31:00.000+08:00

When's the last time you got a free update that made your machine 35% faster at something? Apple's recently released 10.4.8 system update includes a number of enhancements to the Rosetta processor emulation technology...a roughly 35% improvement running Photoshop CS2 on Intel-based Mac systems

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Vista, Office 2007 cracked. Kind of.

2006-11-15T00:31:00.000+08:00

Microsoft has had a long history of battling against piracy, ever since Bill Gates' Open Letter to Hobbyists in 1976, long before there was even a personal computer software industry to speak of. Now, Microsoft finds itself in its latest piratical engagement, with the recent cracks of Windows Vista and Office 2007 in the wild on pirate sites.

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How to Build Triple Boot (XP, Vista, Ubuntu) with single Boot Screen wpics

2006-11-15T00:25:00.000+08:00

This is a tutorial with lots of screenshots on how to build a triple boot system (Windows XP, Windows Vista and Ubuntu Edgy Eft) with a single boot manager. + wiping HDD, installing, backing up GRUB's MBR, modifying boot.ini and Vista's bcdedit records. I hope you'll like it.

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PHP v5.2 vs PHP v5.1

2006-11-15T00:22:00.001+08:00

With the release of the latest version of PHP v5.2, they have made some changes to address and fine tune its performance. So I decided to benchmark v5.2 vs v5.1 to see the impact of the new changes since I think many are looking forward to this release.

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How To Compile A Kernel - The Fedora Way

2006-11-15T00:22:00.000+08:00

Each distribution has some specific tools to build a custom kernel from the sources. This article is about compiling a kernel on Fedora systems. It describes how to build a custom kernel using the latest unmodified kernel sources from kernel.org (vanilla kernel) and also how to patch the kernel sources if you need features that are not in there.

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The 25 Best College Programs for Nerds

2006-11-14T15:41:00.001+08:00

College doesn't have to suck: Game Design. 'Ethical Hacking'. Open Source Development. Cryptogoraphy. Aeronautics. Robot Design. Haptics. This list of 25 courses and programs offered at colleges around the world are geek educational heaven.

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Photoshop Tutorial >> Polished Text

2006-11-14T15:41:00.000+08:00

Make your text seem as if it is spankin' new, right out of the package

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Vista, Office 2007 cracked. Kind of.

2006-11-14T15:40:00.001+08:00

PS3 Linux: Dual Boot Instructions & Blu-ray disc mounting supported!

2006-11-14T15:40:00.000+08:00

With the possibility of mounting Blu-ray discs on Linux, will it be possible to dump the PS3's game discs? It will be easier than Sony thinks...I can hazard a guess that the special Blu-ray drivers for Linux will not allow you to do so, but give it a few weeks and the hackers can easily come out with modified drivers.

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21 Surefire Tips for a Successful Blog Launch

2006-10-24T13:24:00.000+08:00

A comprehensive checklist of what to do when you kick off a new blog. Includes tips on getting more RSS subscribers, inbound links, and search engine referrals.

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If computers ran the NBA, Shaq would be benched

2006-10-24T13:22:00.001+08:00

Shaquille O'Neal may be one of the best basketball players on the planet, but he should have been benched in this year's National Basketball Association championships.

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Six years on, Google finally breaks into Japan web top 10

2006-10-24T13:22:00.000+08:00

It may dominate Internet search in many countries, but Google has only just broken into Japan's Internet top ten, according to data published Monday by NetRatings Japan.

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2006-10-06T03:45:00.000+08:00

TIP: Removing .svn folders using find

I've got this very helpful script that is very useful if you are using a *nix based system that will remove all the .svn folders inside a given directory. This is very handy if you have copied and checked out a given code from a repository and you want to transfer it to another repository or a new repository.

find ./ -type d -iname .svn -exec rm -drf {} \;