Postgres doesn't have a basename function per se. But it's easy to accomplish. select regexp_replace('http://www.seanbehan.com/images/logo.png', '.+/', '') ; -- Will return logo.png

I'm a big fan of the yaml_db plugin. But I don't like running rake db:data:load, only to find that my db columns mismatch my model attributes, thus aborting the data import task. To quickly add/remove columns/attributes from a model and rebuild the datab...

The documentation for Python's shutil.make_archive is very confusing. Considering that the arguments to this function only need to be source and destination, makes it even more frustrating to try and reason about. Here are the relevant docs from the p...

It's short and sweet. $obj_from_array = (object)['key'=>'val']; echo $obj_from_array->key;

Here is a little ruby snippet that will download all pictures from a webpage. Rather than using XPath, we are going to first reduce the source code to capture everything inside of quotes. Some websites use JSON w/in a script tag to lazy load images an...