{"id":2463,"date":"2009-01-13T19:39:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T03:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/tribute-counter\/"},"modified":"2009-03-13T09:21:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T16:21:41","slug":"tribute-counter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/tribute-counter\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute Counter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, our server upgraded the operating system, which managed to break some of the scripts I use for this site. It turned out to be a good thing, because I re-wrote some of the scripts using more up-to-date features. One of those features is <strong>AJAX<\/strong> or <em><strong>A<\/strong>synchronous <strong>J<\/strong>avaScript <strong>A<\/strong>nd <strong>X<\/strong>ML<\/em> which is said to be &#8220;JavaScript on Steroids&#8221; by some.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ttrib-stats.jpg' alt='ttrib-stats.jpg' class='right' \/>I had been wanting to make the readout of the hit counter on the &#8220;Never Forget&#8221; tribute a dynamically-updated widget, so I went to work and made it happen. Now, when you look at the tribute statistics in the sidebar, you will see the counter update in (more or less) real-time as the tribute is served up to yet another website. The rate at which it increments is higher during day and evening hours in the U.S., so I presume most of the people seeing it are in the western hemisphere. <\/p>\n<p>As of this posting, the counter is about ready to roll past 48 million hits &#8211; wow!<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: if you don&#8217;t have JavaScript enabled, you will not see the counter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, our server upgraded the operating system, which managed to break some of the scripts I use for this site. It turned&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,68,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-never-forget","category-technology-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}