When the cloud is a good idea
A buddy of mine is a talented, but paranoid System Administrator for a small web company. He refuses to see the truth and the beauty in the wonderful world made possible by cloud computing services like Amazon's EC2. Amazon is not the only game in town. T...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
git checkout -- file-in-question.oh-my
Problem: using git and one file, like your db/schema.rb, is out of whack with the latest branch. If you run git pull and you get a failed merge and no update. You can of course, edit the conflicts manually. But what if you're confident that the latest sch...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
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
How to Create a Date Time Snippet in Sublime Text 2 (Dynamic Signature with Time Stamp)
You'll have to create a new plugin. From the menu bar select
Tools > New Plugin
Copy the Python script from the signature.py file. Remember to replace your email address (it's example.com).
Save the file, signature.py, is fine. Next open up Prefer...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Protect a Directory with Apache, .htaccess and httpasswd
Apache comes with a command line utility called "htpasswd". This utility will generate a username and password that you can use to authenticate against using a .htaccess file. Just run the utility like so:
htpasswd -c /path/to/your/password/directory/a...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
