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I'm Sean.

I write about #software, #SaaS, #consulting and #mobile app development

I code in #Python, #PHP, #Swift, #Ruby, #ReactJS and #Postgres


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Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
My First Ruby Gem: Hashed_Attributes
I just wrote and released my first Ruby Gem, Hashed Attributes https://rubygems.org/gems/hashed_attributes. It is a very simple ActiveRecord extension for saving variables through a serialized hash. The Gem will let you declare getter and setter methods t...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Recursively Zip a Directory and Files on Linux
It's Short and sweet! Just remember that the finished zip filename is the first argument and the directory you wish to recursively zip comes after. zip -r name_of_your_directory.zip name_of_your_directory That's all. You might be intere...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/05/2017
Regex for Extracting URLs in Plain Text
Here is a Regex for extracting URLs from text. However, these links will not already be hyperlinked or source attribtues from images or iframes. This example is in PHP. I was trying to format a Wordpress page to auto hyperlink but preserve embeded ima...
Written by Sean Behan on 04/14/2017
Roll Your Own Full Page Caching in Sinatra
It's as simple as this. # app.rb get '/:slug' do @slug = File.basename("#{params[:slug]}") @cache = "public/cache/#{@slug}.html" if File.exists?(@cache) File.read(@cache) else @post = Post.find_by(page: params[:slug]) ...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/23/2013