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Install Rmagick on Ubuntu with MagickWand
apt-get install librmagick-ruby1.8 apt-get install libmagickwand-dev gem install rmagick The last command will spit out a bunch of "No definition" comments. There are no rdocs available and this is why.
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Get a Random Item from an Array in PHP
Use this snippet for grabbing a random item from an array in php $fruits = ['apple', 'banana', 'carrot', 'date', 'elderberry']; echo array_rand(array_flip($fruits)); // => 'banana' PHP's `array_flip` makes the keys the values and the valu...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/10/2017
Intercepting the Wordpress Loop with Pre_get_posts
#deprecated (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts#Post_.26_Page_Parameters) Using the "pre_get_posts" filter you can intercept the Wordpress loop and override or set attributes in the "$query" object. This is useful because you c...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Simple Way to Calculate the Odds of Something Happening
Here is a quick way to express a chance of something happening. This is an example in JavaScript that gives you a 1 in 3 chance of being true. [true, false, false].sort(function(){ return Math.random() >= 0.5 ? 1 : -1 })[0] Basically, we popu...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/27/2017
Git Feature Branch Naming Strategy
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton Typically, we have three main branches at any given time in a project lifecycle. master, development and staging. Master is production ready code, d...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012