David Heinemeier Hansson - Ruby on Rails, Startups, Culture
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb2xzeWf-PM[/youtube]
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Make Cross Database Queries with Postgres and DBLink Extension
Here are a few snippets for cross database queries. It's important to note that you must be explicit in enumerating the columns and types you are querying. Otherwise, things will probably not work as expected.
-- enable extension
create extension db...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/18/2017
Parsing URL Parameters with Swift
Here is an extension you can use in your Swift (v4) projects that makes it easy to parse parameters from a url.
Given a url like, "http://example.com/?x=1&y=2", you can extract the x and y parameters into a key, value data structure.
Here is the s...
Written by Sean Behan on 09/23/2018
Highlight String in PHP
Function for highlighting text/strings in PHP.
$content = file_get_contents("http://php.net/");
print highlight("PHP", $content);
function highlight($match, $string){
return str_ireplace($match, "<span style='background:yellow'>$match</span&...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Uncompress A Bz2 File Using Tar Command
Uncompress a bz2 file using tar command
tar --use-compress-program bzip2 -xvf your-file-to-uncompress.tar.bz2
@source http://www.kde.gr.jp/help/doc/kdebase/doc/khelpcenter/faq/HTML/bzip2.html...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
