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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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Rails Migrations and Auto Incrementing Migration Prefix Number
In your environment.rb file turn off timestamped migrations like so: config.active_record.timestamped_migrations = false
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How To Flush Your Permalink Structure in Wordpress When Using Taxonomies ...or Wordpress Taxonomies Not Working Instead I See A 404 Page
I didn't know this, but because of a linking problem using custom taxonomies in Wordpress, I was forced to find out. If you create a new taxonomy, it will not work immediately on the front facing end. Your users will be greeted by a 404, page not found in...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Connect to Postgres on Heroku using DATABASE_URL Config Var with PHP and PDO
Unfortunately PHP's PDO constructor doesn't take a database connection url (in a format that Heroku makes available as a config var) as an argument. It has its own, rather odd syntax. However, it's easy enough to extract url parts with the `parse_url`...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/10/2017
How to Dynamically Call a Method from a String in Swift
You have to subclass NSObject class Car : NSObject { func drive(){ print("Driving..") } } let car : Car = Car() car.perform(NSSelectorFromString("drive"))
Written by Sean Behan on 06/09/2018
How to Use RVM and POW with Ruby 2.0.0
In your project's root directory add a .ruby-version file and add the ruby version to the file ruby-2.0.0-p247 Next source RVM in the .powrc file, also in your project's root directory. source "$rvm_path/scripts/rvm" rvm use `cat .ruby-versio...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/19/2013