I Just Published My First PHP Package HTMLXPATH
I just wrote and published my first PHP package on Packagist.com. It's available on [packagist.org](https://packagist.org/packages/htmlxpath/htmlxpath) and the source code is on [github](https://github.com/seanbehan/htmlxpath).
To install the package u...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/28/2017
Simple String Concatenation of a Collection Written as a Helper for Rails
At Railsconf last week I took Greg Pollack's online course Rails Best Practices. The interface is gorgeous and the instructions are excellent. One of the lessons involved taking a partial and moving it into a helper. I was reminded how difficult such a si...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Roll Your Own Session Based Flash Messaging w/ Sinatra
Session based flash messages are fairly common in web apps. They work well when you have a temporary status to report back to the user, such as successfully saving a form.
If you use Rails it comes with the Framework. If you are using Sinatra there ar...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/01/2013
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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.
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Written by Sean Behan on 03/05/2017
