Changing WordPress Password With MySQL Query

Wordpress has a built in password recovery tool that works by emailing you a link.  To recover your password this way, click Forgot your password on the login page and type the email associated with your account. Sometimes though we will find the need to manually reset the password with MySQL.  To do this, first [...] Read More

Resizing Videos With ffmpeg or avconv

In FFmpegand AvLib, filters are an invaluable tool where much of the magic happens.  The scale filter is our friend when resizing videos.  Let's look at a couple of examples:   Imagine we want a 400x300px output video: sudo ffmpeg -y -i /home/tom/sourceVid.mp4 -strict -2 -c:v libx264 -vf scale=400x300 /home/tom/myScaledVid.mp4 Note, you cannot use odd [...] Read More

Creating Screen Captures With Certain Aspect Ratio · Useful Console Script

If you're showcasing your work on a website, you very well might need to overlay screencast videos over devices.  We recommend using chrome and firefox and using the following script to get the aspect ratio just right for the recording: window.setInterval(function() { var winDims = {w:$(window).width(), h:$(window).height()}; console.log(winDims.w + "x" + winDims.h + " ... [...] Read More

Cropping and Trimming Videos w/ ffmpeg or avconv

Trimming and cropping are ways to reduce the video dimensions or length.  We'll call trimming when you want a subset of a video's time and cropping when you want a subset of the total video dimensions.  We'll also cover the case when we want to scale the cropped/trimmed video Trim Video: Take 5 seconds starting [...] Read More

How To Get The Tracking ID in JavaScript · Google Analytics

Sometimes we may want to fetch the tracking ID that was used to set up the Google analytics tracking when the pages loaded.  This code gets the tracking id: ga.getAll()[0].b.data.values[':trackingId'] Read More

Searching Linux Folder For File With Phrase in Contents

This will do a recursive search through the folder /search/through/this/folder for the phrase: for this phrase grep -rnw '/search/through/this/folder' -e 'for this phrase' Gotta love Linux! Read More

Check Your Python Version

python -V This will print the version you're on: Python 2.7.12 Read More

Installing Python on Linux

sudo apt-get install python If you're writing a bash script to install programs for a fresh server, it's a good idea to add the -y flag to force the install without being prompt to confirm sudo apt-get install python -y Read More

How to Check if Python is Installed Linux

which is a very helpful command in linux- when we pass which a command it looks through our machine for where the application lives in our filesystem. which python Will eaither return an empty line or the path to the application on disk: /usr/bin/python Wondering Which Python Version You're On? python -V This will print [...] Read More

PHP Global Variables $GLOBALS

When you define a variable in global scope in PHP, you can sometimes have difficulty acccessing the variable from within another function call, if not explicity passe. Luckily, in PHP, the $GLOBALS variable holds all of our globally defined variables: $myVar = 123; myFunction(); function myFunction() { echo $GLOBALS["myVar"]; //123 } That said, the usual [...] Read More