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I'm Sean.

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

I code in #Python, #PHP, #Swift, #Ruby, #ReactJS and #Postgres


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How To Flush Your Permalink Structure in Wordpress When Using Taxonomies ...or Wordpress Taxonomies Not Working Instead I See A 404 Page
I didn't know this, but because of a linking problem using custom taxonomies in Wordpress, I was forced to find out. If you create a new taxonomy, it will not work immediately on the front facing end. Your users will be greeted by a 404, page not found 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
Cool Conditional Syntax in Ruby (on Rails)
Ruby is beautiful @posts = if true Post.all else [] end Simply elegant!
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Connect to Postgres on Heroku using DATABASE_URL Config Var with PHP and PDO
Unfortunately PHP's PDO constructor doesn't take a database connection url (in a format that Heroku makes available as a config var) as an argument. It has its own, rather odd syntax. However, it's easy enough to extract url parts with the `parse_url`...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/10/2017
Collection Select Helper and OnChange Event in Rails
Given a collection of Active Record objects, you may use the collection_select helper method to produce a select form field. You need to pass in a number of arguments to the helper function. 1) object - your model object used in the collection 2) method ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012