I usually change some of the default settings when I use the Paperclip plugin. For most of my projects I don't like having separate directories for each image that is uploaded. I prefer, in this instance, to put avatars of different sizes together under o...

This snippet will make a request to this page and extract the title from the title tag. require 'open-uri' html = open('http://www.seanbehan.com/how-to-extract-the-title-from-an-html-page-with-ruby').read title = html.match(/(.*)/) { $1 } pu...

import hashlib print hashlib.sha1("My wonderful string").hexdigest() print hashlib.md5("My other wonderful string").hexdigest()

It's not immediately apparent how to import/export the links in your Wordpress blogroll. One would expect that the import/export tool, used to backup/restore Wordpress posts and pages would handle this functionality as well. But the import/export tool has...

If you're working with an XCode application, either iOS or MacOS, and want to do a completely clean build and delete the cache, it's simple. Execute this command from the command line.. defaults delete your.apps.bundle.id Where "your.apps.bundl...