Parsing URL Parameters with Swift
Here is an extension you can use in your Swift (v4) projects that makes it easy to parse parameters from a url.
Given a url like, "http://example.com/?x=1&y=2", you can extract the x and y parameters into a key, value data structure.
Here is the s...
Written by Sean Behan on 09/23/2018
How to Merge a YAML File Into a Single Hash in Ruby
require 'yaml'
# Nested YAML structure from something-nested.yml
#
# nested:
# key: value
# key_two: value_two
# Procedural Approach to building a single Hash from nested YAML data structure.
@yaml = YAML.load_file("something-nested...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Using Grep To Find or Match All Links in an HTML Document
egrep -or "(http(s)?://){1}[^'\"]+" path/to/directory
You can further reduce to just return the images by piping again.
grep -r src views/ | egrep -o "(mailto|ftp|http(s)?://){1}[^'\"]+"
The -r flag is for a recursive directory scan....
Written by Sean Behan on 09/15/2013
Updating Your Twitter Status with cURL and a Bash Function
I'm usually at the command line so I wrote a little a bash function so that i can type
tweet this is really neat but kind of pointless
and it will update my twitter status! some characters trip it up but in general it's useful for most of my tweets. The...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Installing RedMine PM Software on Apache with Phusion and REE and Seeing a 404 Page Not Found Error on Installation
If you follow the instructions on how to install the Rails Redmine PM Software (available here) and are using Apache with Passenger (REE), you need to delete the .htaccess file that is kept in RAILS_ROOT/public directory. Otherwise you'll see a 404 page n...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
