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

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...

You can use CLGeocoder geocodeAddressString method. It will return an array of CLPlacemark objects that contain gps coords and city, location info. let address = "Burlington, Vermont" CLGeocoder().geocodeAddressString(address, completionHandler...

This code assumes you're using the UIImagePickerController. If not you will need to get an image url another way. But, If you are using UIImagePickerControllerDelegate then it will supply the asset's url in the `info` dictionary . From the asset's url...

You have to subclass NSObject class Car : NSObject { func drive(){ print("Driving..") } } let car : Car = Car() car.perform(NSSelectorFromString("drive"))

Is your app connected to the internet? You can use this standalone class to check! There are no dependencies so you can copy/paste it into your project without needing to install another framework. With this class it's as simple as running `Reachabili...

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...

You can add this snippet to your application, say for instance in your `viewDidLoad` function, that will print to the XCode console, the location of your app while it's being developed. // prints the location of asset my-added-file.txt that you've ad...

If you want to find the location of your log file in Postgres, you'll need to hop into a Psql session.. psql dbname Then it's as simple as running.. show data_directory ; Which will output the data directory, in my case.. /Users/sea...

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...