If you have an string of numbers like "1,2,3" and you want to turn it into an array of integers you need to cast it into an integer array type. "{1,2,3}"::int[] This is commonly used together when grabbing a set using the ANY clause. sele...

Here is the Akismet.rb class, written by David Czarnecki. I've seen several tutorials online using this class, however, the class isn't available at David's blog. So... I reposted it here and at the pastie link below http://pastie.org/1150693 ...

In the Wordpress editor (html mode) you'll need to become friends with < and > if you plan on showing any code (php, html... xml, most languages actually) that readers will want to understand. I never thought about it, but assumed that the lt and...

To decorate an imported function in Python you would do something like this # in ./lib.py def function_name(): # function body And then in your program you could decorate it like this from lib import function_name function_name = decorat...

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...