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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 Create a Date Time Snippet in Sublime Text 2 (Dynamic Signature with Time Stamp)
You'll have to create a new plugin. From the menu bar select Tools > New Plugin Copy the Python script from the signature.py file. Remember to replace your email address (it's example.com). Save the file, signature.py, is fine. Next open up Prefer...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Why Doesn't Google Offer Dedicated Virtual Hosting?
AppEngine is nice, but it's a little limiting. No cron jobs, filesystem use nor customization with third party libraries, software, databases, languages, etc. You can't deploy PHP, Ruby and or your 'other' favorite web development tools. You can only use ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Chunk Large Files in Swift
How to Chunk Large Files in Swift (4.1) It takes a bit of work but this is the solution I found that finally worked, thanks to this Stack Overflow thread https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46464177/split-data-in-chunks-and-upload-to-server The example ...
Written by Sean Behan on 09/15/2018
using screen
Use screen when you want to manage multiple sessions in a terminal. Install it on Ubuntu sudo apt-get install screen There are a lot of options for screen. I won't go into them. I use screen most often when I shell into a remote server and want to hop i...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Collection Select Helper and OnChange Event in Rails
Given a collection of Active Record objects, you may use the collection_select helper method to produce a select form field. You need to pass in a number of arguments to the helper function. 1) object - your model object used in the collection 2) method ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012