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TwitterCounter: the API and the Mint Pepper

Joost de Valk — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:58:08 +0000

As you know I'm a big fan of TwitterCounter, and Boris, its creator and founder is one of the few Dutch entrepreneurs I'm actually a fan of, as he really seems to get the "new" web.

I emailed him last week, asking why TwitterCounter didn't have an API, and we started talking about what an API should do. He started developing it, showed me some code, and then I offered him to develop the API myself. So I did, resulting in this API.

On top of that API Sean Hammons already implemented a pane for getClicky, and I myself created a Pepper for Mint. It looks like this:

Like it? Download it here

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Technorati Pepper for Mint

Joost de Valk — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:42:47 +0000

I've been playing with the thought of developing a Pepper for Mint for ages, but never got to it. Tonight I decided to do it, and it turned out to be incredibly easy!

So I've developed a Pepper that has two panes, one displays your Technorati scores like this:

The other displays the latest links Technorati has found for your blog, like this:

I used the Duck Soup Technorati API library to do this, and have to say it's very easy to use.

Download it here.

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Running multiple Mint instances? Make updating easier!

Joost de Valk — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:16:46 +0000

I run three instances of Mint, and if I worked "the normal way" doing one of it's rather frequent updates would mean having to copy the same files three times. Since I'm lazy, I don't feel like doing that. What I've done is pick one "main" Mint install, and symlink all files in other directories except the config file to that directory.

Symlinking those things is easy, for instance for css3.info I did this:

cd /var/www/css3.info/mint/
mv pepper pepper_old
ln -s /var/www/joostdevalk.nl/mint/pepper/ .[/code]

Repeat this for the app and styles directories, and for the index.php file, and the next time you're updating, you only have to copy your files once!

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Note to Mint users

Joost de Valk — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:13:37 +0000

If you're a Mint user, you might want to add the new search.live.com as a search engine to your Mint config, since otherwise Mint won't recognize these referrers as a Search Engine.The process is quite easy:add the following lines to the end of your engines.php:

$SI_SearchEngines[] = array(
'name'          => 'Live.com',
'url'           => 'http://search.live.com/results.aspx',
'domain'        => 'search.live',
'query'         => 'q'
);[/code]

After that, all subsequent hits from Live.com or it's country counterparts should be recognized...

If you're using Mike Valstar's Pepper Refferer Aggregator you have to add the following to the class.php of this Pepper:
'Live.com' => array (
'search.live.com',
),
I've already emailed Mike about this addition as well.
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Have a Mint Greasemonkey script

Joost de Valk — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:31:43 +0000

This script has been replaced by a new version, which now has it's own page.Â

I recently (as in, yesterday) bought a Mint license for this site, and am now very enthusiastic about it. Now i've always been using Google Analytics, and since i'm very interested to know what kind of stats package other people use, i used codeWord's Google Analtyics Greasemonkey script, and i wanted to have the same for Mint. Now this isn't that safe, since people can change the directory they run their Mint in, but i guess most won't do that, so it just checks for ~~/mint/~~ (updated: now checks for ?js).

Here's the script, and don't worry, if you're running the Google Analytics one too: this one will go right under that. There's probably a far better way to check if someone is using Mint, i'll try and update the script for that.

Update: Shaun Inman helped me with a better way to check over at the Mint forums, so i've just updated the script.

Update 2: I've written a newer and better version of this script, with way more optins, it's now called Statistics Detector.
[tags]mint, google analytics[/tags]

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