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A List of Every High School in the United States in Pipe Delimitted Form (2005)
Here is a text file containing every high school in the United States(2005), including city, state, zip code and high school name. us_high_schools_pd
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Linux Disk Usage Command Recursive
It's short and sweet! du -hs * If you run this command it will tell you the sizes of all the files and folder in the current directory. The `-h` flag is for human readable format and the `-s` will give you the size for each file or directory. ...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/07/2017
Rails 3 Config Auto Load Paths in Application.rb
In Rails 3 files in lib/ are no longer loaded by default. It's a snap to auto load these classes by adding the following line to config/application.rb config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib) This is commented out around line 16. Either rep...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Testing current_user and Sessions with Sinatra and Rack Test
Assume you have your standard Sinatra application. # app.rb require 'sinatra' configure do enable :sessions end get '/' do if session[:user_id] "OK" else raise "NOT OK!" end end To test this you need to make a re...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/22/2013
How to Generate a UUID in PHP 7
Here is a little snippet for generating a UUID in PHP 7 function uuid(){ $data = random_bytes(16); $data[6] = chr(ord($data[6]) & 0x0f | 0x40); $data[8] = chr(ord($data[8]) & 0x3f | 0x80); return vsprintf('%s%s-%s-%s-%s-%s%s%s', str_...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/26/2017