How to Create A Unix Timestamp or the Epoch in Python
It's a little convoluted. Seeing as it's a pretty common thing you use when programming computers one might think that there would be a quick and easy method for it. But from what I can tell there isn't. So here is a snippet that will give you a *nix Epoc...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/02/2013
How To Enable IFrame Support on Heroku with Ruby on Rails and Sinatra
This actually has more to do with Rails and/or Sinatra than it does with Heroku. You have to enable IFrame support in your headers explicitly.
With Rails you can add this to your config/application.rb file
config.action_dispatch.default_headers = ...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/25/2013
Execute Javascript When Using Link_to_function To Include a Partial in Rails
If you use the link_to_function to replace content in a div with content from a partial, any javascript that you include in the partial will not be executed. It is instead included, but will do nothing. Obviously, this isn't the desired behavior. Why woul...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to import CSV into SQLite3
To import a CSV file into SQLite is easy.
sqlite3 my.db
.mode csv
.import path/to/file.csv name_of_table
And done.
Written by Sean Behan on 12/03/2017
Simple SQL for Counting New Signups
Here is a little snippet that will return new signups (or new records) for today
select id, email, created_at::date date from signups
where email not in (select distinct email from signups where created_at < current_date)
Written by Sean Behan on 07/13/2017