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
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
When the cloud is a good idea
A buddy of mine is a talented, but paranoid System Administrator for a small web company. He refuses to see the truth and the beauty in the wonderful world made possible by cloud computing services like Amazon's EC2. Amazon is not the only game in town. T...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Offset an Element with Relative Position Property with CSS Without Taking Up Any Space in the Document
Using CSS positioning it's possible to offset an element and collapse its width and height where it would normally appear. Wrapping the content in an absolute positioned element, the space that the element would normally take up is collapsed.
<div st...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Thematic Function Reference
I could not find a listing of all thematic theme functions for Wordpress online. So the following is just a recursive grep of the thematic directory.
grep -rh "function thematic_" *
Each function needs to prepended with "thematic_" when adding as a actio...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012