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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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A Couple of Usefule Snippets When Working with Textmate
Here is the snippet f path/to/directory 'search string' | open_in_mate This snippet (technically 2 snippets) will recursively scan the contents of files in a directory and then open all the files it finds in Textmate. It's useful on large projec...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/18/2013
Intercepting the Wordpress Loop with Pre_get_posts
#deprecated (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts#Post_.26_Page_Parameters) Using the "pre_get_posts" filter you can intercept the Wordpress loop and override or set attributes in the "$query" object. This is useful because you c...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Active Record Find Methods
Active Record find methods for selecting range from http://charlesmaxwood.com/notes-from-reading-activerecordbase/ Student.find(:all, :conditions => { :grade => 9..12 }) return a range Student.find(:all, :conditions => { :grade => [9,11,12] }) will retu...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
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
oh russian text, i thought you had something valuable to share...
but no, you were only clever enough to use your native tongue in an attempt to fool me into publishing your funny, spam comment! thanks to google.com/translate, you were foiled in your plot to usurp traffic from my site
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012