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

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How to Read and Write to a Single Cell Using PHP and Google Spreadsheets API
This post assumes you've created a project with Google's web console and downloaded a client_secret.json file from the credentials page. If not, more info is here.. https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/03/google-spreadsheets-and-php.html Note: The tuto...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/11/2018
Rails: Expiring a cached page with namespaces and sweepers
I've got some pages that are cached using their permalinks on the filesystem, such as http://example.com/about-us.html which will need to map to RAILS_ROOT/public/about-us.html ... The issue I have is that I use a namespace for the admin area and the cont...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Pickle Python Objects
import pickle entity = { "user_id": "1", "title": "Natural Dog Training", "link": "http://naturaldogtraining.com", } pickled_entity = pickle.dumps(entity) unpickled_entity = pickle.loads(pickled_entity)
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Resolve ERROR 1396 (HY000): Operation CREATE USER failed for Error in MySQL
If you run into this error when trying to create a user in mysql, chances are you already have this user account created. create user 'someuser'@'localhost' identified by 'somepassword'; ERROR 1396 (HY000): Operation CREATE USER failed for 'someuser...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/02/2017
Pretty Formatted JSON from the Command Line
Sometimes you want to see JSON from the command line. I'm sure there are better tools for the job, but here is a little snippet you can throw in your ~/.bash_profile. function json { curl -s "$1" | python -mjson.tool; } Usage json https://g...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/21/2013