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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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How to Extract Time Information from a Natural Language String with a Regular Expression and PHP
You can easily extract time information from a string with a regular expression and PHP (or any language with regular expressions). $str = "Here is how to extract time info.. like 4:30 PM and 2:10 AM from a string in PHP"; $rgx = "/\d{1,2}(:?\d...
Written by Sean Behan on 02/26/2018
Rails Find All by Birthday: How to Find Upcoming Birthdays with ActiveRecord
There are a few ways to solve this problem. However, I think the easiest is to cache the day of the year that the user is born on as an integer. If stored alongside the timestamp we can quickly get a list but properly handle the full birthday elsewhere, s...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Install do_mysql Ruby Gem on Mac OS X
I ran into the same problem when installing mysql gem for Rails development. This fix worked for me http://seanbehan.com/programming/fixing-mysql-for-rails-2-2-development-on-mac-os-x/ The same thing works with the data objects gem. Just specify the path...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
TinyMCE Rich Text Editor: HELLO EDITOR Plugin Tutorial and Example
I wanted to create a button for the TinyMCE Rich Text Editor for Wordpress. It was tough to find good docs on the subject. There are a couple of useful posts out there but in general I found them lacking. http://codex.wordpress.org/TinyMCE_Custom_Buttons...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
OpenSSL Certificate Generation Information for Certificate Authority to Serve Traffic Over Https
apt-get install openssl openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024 openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr You'll be prompted to enter a password (don't forget it!) as well as fill in company identity information. The most important part is the ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012