There are a number of terrific calendar plugins for Rails. But it's almost as easy, if not easier, to implement your own calendar. The steps are pretty simple. First get the @beginning_of_month and @end_of_month and iterate over the days in between. In t...

I am not using the full Xcode package on my laptop. Instead I'm using the command line tools, offered by Apple as a separate and much smaller install. I haven't had too many issues, aside from not being able to use the FileMerge program that ships with ...

Here is a quick snippet for parsing query strings in PHP. You can use the `parse_url` and `parse_str` methods. `parse_str` will create a variable for you populated with results. $url = "http://www.seanbehan.com/path/?param=key"; parse_str(parse_url...

I was hoping to find a function in the Wordpress API, that goes something like this... the_child_categories("Vermont"); // print Burlington, Brattleboro... etc if this post has any child categories of Vermont But I could not. The result that I did ...

How to print the alphabet in Rails very easily. ("A".."Z").each {|letter| link_to letter, "/#{letter"} "A".upto("Z") {|letter| link_to letter, "/#letter"}