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How to Log and Query SQL Queries Hitting Your Database with MySQL
Here is some code just in case you want to look at and query the queries hitting your MySQL database. Enter this from the mysql client console. mysql> SET GLOBAL log_output = 'TABLE' mysql> SET GLOBAL general_log = 'ON'; mysql> select event_ti...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/17/2018
Matching email addresses in Javascript
Matching email addresses in Javascript regex = /\b[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}\b/img "hello sean@example.com how are you? do you know bob@example.com?".match(regex) // => ["sean@example.com", "bob@example.com"]
Written by Sean Behan on 03/24/2017
Manual ManyToMany Through with Django's ORM
Here is a code snippet that demonstrates how to set up a __ManyToMany through__ relationship in Django. In Rails, the equivalent would be called a __has_many through__ association. If you set the __through__ argument on the ManyToManyField, Django wil...
Written by Sean Behan on 07/21/2017
How Beautiful is Ruby?
Working with Ruby and in particular Rails, it's easy to take the beauty inherent in the language for granted. I mean look at this code. If you read it aloud to yourself, it reads like an english sentence that any non programmer can understand. Forum.cate...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Split a Large File Into Smaller Files on OSX or Unix
Use the split command. split -l 1000 name-of-file output/directory You can set the number of lines (the "-l" flag) to split on and also the location of where the split files should be saved. Note, the output directory must already exists....
Written by Sean Behan on 10/08/2013