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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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Adding RSS Graffiti to my Facebook Page
I added the RSS Graffiti application to my Facebook account. It's a nifty app that lets you add any valid Rss/Atom feed to your profile (includes publishing to your wall) and to your pages.
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Using Formtastic to Cleanly Create Nice Looking Forms in Rails
Forms can easily get cluttered when you're dealing with a lot of form fields... er, ERB tags. I've written about extending Rails form builders, which certainly goes along way to shrinking your views where forms are used. The plugin Formtastic is even bett...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Parse Query Strings in PHP
Here is a quick snippet for parsing query strings in PHP. You can use the `parse_url` and `parse_str` methods. `parse_str` will create a variable for you populated with results. $url = "http://www.seanbehan.com/path/?param=key"; parse_str(parse_url...
Written by Sean Behan on 12/04/2017
Installing RedMine PM Software on Apache with Phusion and REE and Seeing a 404 Page Not Found Error on Installation
If you follow the instructions on how to install the Rails Redmine PM Software (available here) and are using Apache with Passenger (REE), you need to delete the .htaccess file that is kept in RAILS_ROOT/public directory. Otherwise you'll see a 404 page n...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Uploading Files with Curl
curl -i -F name=test -F filedata=@localfile.jpg http://example.org/upload Courtesy of http://ariejan.net/2010/06/07/uploading-files-with-curl/
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012