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
Working with Branches in Git
Show all the branches
git branch
Create a new branch
git branch my_experimental_feature
Use that branch
git checkout my_experimental_feature
Pushing the new branch to a remote server
git push origin my_experimental_feature
Pulling that branch down...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
My First Python Package on PyPi - Command Line Blog
I wrote my first Python package over the weekend. It is a simple package that adds a basic blog API to an existing Flask application.
It's called `command_line_blog` and is available [on Github](https://github.com/seanbehan/command_line_blog) and [on ...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/02/2017
How To Fix ActiveRecord::ConnectionTimeoutError with Sinatra
If you get this error message
ActiveRecord::ConnectionTimeoutError could not obtain a database connection within 5.000 seconds (waited 5.001 seconds)
Try closing the connection after each request using "after" in Sintara.
# app.rb
after { A...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/09/2013
How to Extract the Title From an HTML Page with Ruby
This snippet will make a request to this page and extract the title from the title tag.
require 'open-uri'
html = open('http://www.seanbehan.com/how-to-extract-the-title-from-an-html-page-with-ruby').read
title = html.match(/(.*)/) { $1 }
pu...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/22/2013
