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How to Fix Pypi Upload failed (403): Invalid or non-existent authentication information.
If you run into authentication failure when trying to upload packages Submitting dist/ to https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/ Upload failed (403): Invalid or non-existent authentication information. error: Upload failed (403): Invalid or non-existent...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/02/2017
Parsing URL Parameters with Swift
Here is an extension you can use in your Swift (v4) projects that makes it easy to parse parameters from a url. Given a url like, "http://example.com/?x=1&y=2", you can extract the x and y parameters into a key, value data structure. Here is the s...
Written by Sean Behan on 09/23/2018
Starting the Rails Console in Production Mode
To specify which mode you'd like the rails console to boot up in, just provide the string without any flags. ./script/console production ./script/console test ./script/console development If you're on windows, remember the backslash "\" rather than for...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Recursively Zip Up a Directory while Excluding Certain Files Based on File Extension Type
In the example below, I'm going to zip up a directory that includes images in both PNG and PSD file formats. However, I want to exclude the PSDs because they are huge! zip -r my-compressed-dir-without-psd.zip directory-to-zip -x '*.psd'
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Descending Sort By in Model For Active Record Hash on Created_at attribute
If you have a couple collections from the database and you want to sort it without the help of Active Record, take a look at the sort_by method on Array type. I've used this before when I have a couple of collections which are slightly different but I nee...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012