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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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Changing GitHub Issue State in Git Commit Message
Changing issue state in git commit message for Github issues fixes #xxx fixed #xxx fix #xxx closes #xxx close #xxx closed #xxx Example git commit -am'complete bug fix closes #123'
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Postlearn Job Board
Postlearn is a job board focused on delivering quality jobs listings to people in education. An affiliate program is available to bloggers and site owners in the edu space. Bloggers who participate receive a percentage of referrer sales. A widget display...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
TODO and Custom Annotations in Rails Applications
While writing software it's common to leave comments for your future self. For instance, if you have written some code but realize that it should be refactored to be more efficient, you may place something along the lines of "TODO: change active record fi...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Installing Ruby on Rails 3, MySQL, Git, Ruby Enterprise Edition, Passenger (Mod_Rails) on Ubuntu with Rackspace Cloud.
Short and sweet. Here all the commands I run in this order to set up a brand new box. It usually takes about 10 - 15 minutes on a 256 MB RAM instance. Compiling Ruby Enterprise Edition, which is super easy, will take the most amount of time. It will seem ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Python Zlib Compress DeCompress
import zlib regular_string = 'this is my string' compressed_string = zlib.compress(regular_string) decompressed_string = zlib.decompress(compressed_string) print compressed_string print decompressed_string
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012