A Regular Expression to Generate Dash Separated Slugs AKA Pretty URLs
This regular expression matches non alphanumeric characters in a string.
r = /[^a-z0-9]{1,}/i
You can use it to create URL friendly slugs.
slug = "hello world!".gsub(/[^a-z0-9]{1,}/i, '-').downcase # => hello-world
In combination wit...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/22/2013
How to Get GPS Location Information from a Photo or Movie with Swift and UIImagePickerController
This code assumes you're using the UIImagePickerController. If not you will need to get an image url another way.
But, If you are using UIImagePickerControllerDelegate then it will supply the asset's url in the `info` dictionary . From the asset's url...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/11/2018
How to Reset and Clear a Form Field or Textarea with Stateless Components in React
Stateless components are nice. They are simple to use and understand but can become tricky when you start thinking about data and how to manage state. In general, the consensus seems to be that if your UI is going to need state, then at least the componen...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/21/2018
Mod_Python and Web.py on Ubuntu
Download
First install mod_python for Apache and then restart/reload the server.
apt-get install libapache2-mod-python
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload
apache2ctl restart
Next grab the web.py framework from webpy.org. You can grab the tar or use easy_in...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Dump MySQL Database without Drop Table Syntax
Output .sql file for MySQL but without the drop table syntax before table name use the --skip-add-drop-table flag
mysqldump -u root -p database_name --skip-add-drop-table --skip-lock-tables > database_name.sql
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
