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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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Absolutize Relative Links Using PHP and Preg_Replace_Callback
I was in the market for a simple php script to replace hrefs with their absolute paths from scraped web pages. I wrote one myself. I used the preg_replace_callback function so that I could pass the parsed results as a single variable. <?php $domain =...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Rails Style Params in Python and Flask
Ruby on Rails does a great job of parsing arrays in form data and populating a params hash, for quick and easy access in your controllers. For instance Gives you params[:item] # => ["item 1", "item 2"] Flask doesn't do this work f...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/04/2018
Vim Tips and Tricks
The following tips and tricks can be put into your .vimrc file Remap jj to esc imap jj <Esc> Quickly leave edit mode and back to visual mode with jj. This is probably the fastest key combination possible and one of the most frequent key combinatio...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Cool Conditional Syntax in Ruby (on Rails)
Ruby is beautiful @posts = if true Post.all else [] end Simply elegant!
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Load All ActiveRecord::Base Model Classes in Rails Application
Here is a simple rake task which will instantiate all of your Active Record models, provided that they are located in the RAILS_ROOT/app/models directory. Interestingly, all plugin models are instantiated by default when you run the task, for instance, if...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012