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I'm Sean.

I write about #software, #SaaS, #consulting and #mobile app development

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Programmatically Turn Off Comments in Wordpress with Filter
To turn comments off programmatically with a filter in Wordpress, you can set the post object's comment_status variable to "closed". Call the filter at some point after the post is loaded but before the comments are rendered. This is a hack, but I haven't...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Make Rails Lib Module Methods Available to Views
If you create a module in the lib/ directory of your Rails application you won't have access to those methods in your views. If you don't want to put those methods in a helper file, you need to add a method to your module that makes them available for you...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Email Obfuscation and Extraction from Text with Rails
There is a helper method for handling the obfuscation of email addresses in Rails. mail_to "me@domain.com", "My email", :encode => "hex" # => My email If you want to then extract an email address(or all email addresses) from a block of text here is the...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Super Simple Router for React Without Any Dependencies
Here is some very simple code to render React components dynamically without using a framework or routing library. It doesn't cover pushState and URL parsing, so in that sense it isn't a routing library. But it does let you render components from othe...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/16/2018
Rounded Corners with CSS
.rounded_corners { -moz-border-radius: 20px; -webkit-border-radius: 20px; -khtml-border-radius: 20px; border-radius: 20px; }
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012