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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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Quick Syntax to Pipe an SQL Query Directly to a file
Here is a quick way to put the contents of a database table into a simple text file. This could be handy if for example, you just want to grab some emails and pop the results into a simple csv file. Your sql statement can be as creative as sql allows. All...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How To Install Pyscopg2 Python Postgres Driver on Mac OSX with Homebrew, Postgres.app and VirtualEnv
You might have to append the path of the Postgres.app bin directory to your path in order to install the Python driver for Posgres. export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin To find the location of the application try this ...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/19/2013
Rake DB Everything, Dump, Destroy, Create, Load
I'm a big fan of the yaml_db plugin. But I don't like running rake db:data:load, only to find that my db columns mismatch my model attributes, thus aborting the data import task. To quickly add/remove columns/attributes from a model and rebuild the datab...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Rails Select Tag and Onchange Event Calling a Remote Function with Default Option Selected
Here is a little code snippet that will fire off a request to update_client_path when you change the select field. This stands alone, rather than being apart of a larger form. The Client::CATEGORY argument is a hash, which I populated manually in my Clien...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Tag and Push a Release with Git
Set the `-a` and the `-m` flags like so git tag -a v1.0.0 -m "Note about the release goes here" Then to push the tag to a repository git push origin --tags And that's it! Here are the docs [https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tag...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/29/2017