The one thing that is different about this article from others around the web is that I wanted to do simple and easy stuff. I did not want to have a model or to put pictures in a database and so on I just wanted to store a resized image to the file system. Why the filesystem and not database? Database is like a funnel. You put and put and use and it isn’t something that you can easily extend or expand to fit easily your needs. There are extends and so on… and you can always hack around problems but why running into them in the first place? So my way was simple and easy without putting much effort in things that I don’t actually need.

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