PHP has some default limits that do not work out of the box when you want to work with uploading very large files. So there are a few configuration changes you have to make to the defaults that come with PHP. These are defined in you php.ini file. The...

How to Chunk Large Files in Swift (4.1) It takes a bit of work but this is the solution I found that finally worked, thanks to this Stack Overflow thread https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46464177/split-data-in-chunks-and-upload-to-server The example ...

I love the Rails reload! function when in the console. I need it in Irb. To get it back this is what I did. If you don't already have an .irbrc file in your home directory, just create it. vim ~/.irbrc or textmate if you prefer mate ~/.irbrc Add this...

curl -i -F name=test -F filedata=@localfile.jpg http://example.org/upload Courtesy of http://ariejan.net/2010/06/07/uploading-files-with-curl/

If you ever want to render a partial but don't want an error thrown you can either check for the existence of the file first params[:controller]+"/sidebar" if File.exists?(RAILS_ROOT+"/app/views/"+params[:controller]+"/_sidebar.html.erb") %> or you ca...

Listing all files and directories using PHP 5. <?php $files = array(); $dir = dir("."); while(false!==($file=$dir->read())): if(($file{0}!=".") && ($file{0}!="~") && (substr($file, -3)!="LCK") && ($file!=basename($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]))): ...

These aren't all of them, but I think they are some of the most useful. # making a directory in another directory that doesn't yet exist... FileUtils.mkdir_p '/path/to/your/directory/that/doesnt/exist/yet' # recursively remove a directory and the conten...

Git can track the file permissions on your source. This can be good, but for small projects on a webserver where permissions change from time to time, and permissions on development app don't match or matter anyway, it's often easier to just skip this che...