How To Create Blurry Background Images Programmatically from the Command Line or with Ruby
Turn this
into this
You can use ImageMagick to make blurry images.
To install with Homebrew on OS X.
brew install imagemagick
After installing you can run from the command line
convert yourimage.png -channel RGBA -blu...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/24/2013
Installing Ruby on Rails 3, MySQL, Git, Ruby Enterprise Edition, Passenger (Mod_Rails) on Ubuntu with Rackspace Cloud.
Short and sweet. Here all the commands I run in this order to set up a brand new box. It usually takes about 10 - 15 minutes on a 256 MB RAM instance. Compiling Ruby Enterprise Edition, which is super easy, will take the most amount of time. It will seem ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Simple SQL for Counting New Signups
Here is a little snippet that will return new signups (or new records) for today
select id, email, created_at::date date from signups
where email not in (select distinct email from signups where created_at < current_date)
Written by Sean Behan on 07/13/2017
Listing Files and Directories with PHP
Listing all files and directories using PHP 5.
<?php
$files = array(); $dir = dir(".");
while(false!==($file=$dir->read())):
if(($file{0}!=".") && ($file{0}!="~") && (substr($file, -3)!="LCK")
&& ($file!=basename($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]))):
...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
PHP Paypal IPN Script
Simple script for posting a valid response back to Paypal service after a sale is completed using the Paypal Instant Checkout payment method.
<?php
// read the post from PayPal system and add 'cmd'
$req = 'cmd=_notify-validate';
foreach ($_POST as $k...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
