This regular expression matches non alphanumeric characters in a string. r = /[^a-z0-9]{1,}/i You can use it to create URL friendly slugs. slug = "hello world!".gsub(/[^a-z0-9]{1,}/i, '-').downcase # => hello-world In combination wit...

You need to read from STDIN rather than parse command line arguments. while $stdin.gets puts $_ end

I don't do much python development. I really like the language and there are a lot of great software projects out there for it. Tornado, for example, is a fast non-blocking web server in python, just open sourced by Facebook that is the engine behind Frie...

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 ...

There are a few 3rd party modules that do this sort of thing. But there is a pretty solution using out of the box Python functionality. You don't have to install any dependencies if you use the `re` module. import re text = ' asdfladf ljklasfj 2324...