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I'm Sean.

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

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How to Chunk Large Files in Swift
How to Chunk Large Files in Swift (4.1) It takes a bit of work but this is the solution I found that finally worked, thanks to this Stack Overflow thread https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46464177/split-data-in-chunks-and-upload-to-server The example ...
Written by Sean Behan on 09/15/2018
Defining Application Constants for Ruby on Rails Application
The best place to keep application constants which are environment specific is in config/environments directory. For instance... # in RAILS_ROOT/config/environments/development.rb APP_DOMAIN = "localhost" # in RAILS_ROOT/config/environments/production.rb...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Extract Time Information from a Natural Language String with a Regular Expression and PHP
You can easily extract time information from a string with a regular expression and PHP (or any language with regular expressions). $str = "Here is how to extract time info.. like 4:30 PM and 2:10 AM from a string in PHP"; $rgx = "/\d{1,2}(:?\d...
Written by Sean Behan on 02/26/2018
Rails, SSL, Ubuntu, Apache2 with Phusion on Ubuntu
Here are all the commands for setting up your Rails application to server requests over SSL -on Ubuntu, of course. There are great resources and tutorials at these websites. http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign.html http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/se...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
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