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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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How to Flatten and Merge Arrays in PHP
There is no built in function for taking a multi dimensional array in PHP and flattening it into a single array. However, it's pretty easy to accomplish in a one liner. Here is the code ...
Written by Sean Behan on 09/28/2018
Have Git Email Committers After Pushes
You need a Mail Transfer Agent MTA on the server. The easiest way is to install Sendmail, which Git uses by default. apt-get install sendmail Remember that /etc/hosts file needs the ip address to map to the domain name your sending mail from # vim /et...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Hello Rack
What is Rack? Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web servers, web frameworks, and sof...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
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
Deploying to Dreamhost
Remember to include the host declaration in the database.yml file when you deploy to Dreamhost. Dreamhost does not use "localhost" which is typically the default setting when using the mysql adapter and developing locally or even on a small site. At lea...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012