How to Import/Export Your Wordpress Blogroll... er, Your Links
It's not immediately apparent how to import/export the links in your Wordpress blogroll. One would expect that the import/export tool, used to backup/restore Wordpress posts and pages would handle this functionality as well. But the import/export tool has...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Regular Expression for finding absolute URLs
Regular Expression for finding absolute URLs in a bunch of text... like a log file.
/(http:(.*?)\s)/
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Extract all Images from a Webpage with Ruby
Here is a little ruby snippet that will download all pictures from a webpage.
Rather than using XPath, we are going to first reduce the source code to capture everything inside of quotes. Some websites use JSON w/in a script tag to lazy load images an...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/01/2018
How to Recover a Mistakenly Deleted Branch
Workflow
git checkout -b _new_branch_name
# do some work and commit changed
git checkout master
git branch -d _new_branch_name
# doh... i meant to merge first
Fortunately, you can easily recover from this mistake.
git reflog
395b1ea HEAD@{0}: checkout...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Recursively Zip Up a Directory while Excluding Certain Files Based on File Extension Type
In the example below, I'm going to zip up a directory that includes images in both PNG and PSD file formats. However, I want to exclude the PSDs because they are huge!
zip -r my-compressed-dir-without-psd.zip directory-to-zip -x '*.psd'
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012