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How To Edit Videos Using FFmpeg

December 8, 2015December 8, 2015 ~ Prateek Joshi ~ Leave a comment

Editing videos can be a huge pain if you don't have the right tools. We know that there are a lot of tools available for image editing. You can quickly crop, resize, or manipulate an image without skipping a beat, but you can't do the same for videos. Let's say you want to resize a … Continue reading How To Edit Videos Using FFmpeg

Enabling Tab Autocomplete In Python Shell

October 27, 2015October 11, 2015 ~ Prateek Joshi ~ 3 Comments

It's fun to play around with Python. One of its best features is the interactive shell where we can experiment all we want. Let's say you open up a shell, declare a bunch of variables and want to operate on them. You don't want to type the full variables names over and over again, right? Also, it's difficult … Continue reading Enabling Tab Autocomplete In Python Shell

How To Schedule Tasks On Linux

April 19, 2014April 20, 2014 ~ Prateek Joshi ~ Leave a comment

Let's say you have a website that does some heavy lifting. This means that you have designed a backend and hosted it on your web server. Now, you might want to run some processes periodically like generating thumbnails or enriching data in the background. The reason for this is that we don't want to interfere with the … Continue reading How To Schedule Tasks On Linux

CMake vs Make

February 1, 2014August 4, 2014 ~ Prateek Joshi ~ 40 Comments

Programmers have been using CMake and Make for a long time now. When you join a big company or start working on a project with a large codebase, there are all these builds that you need to take care of. You must have seen those "CMakeLists.txt" files floating around. You are supposed to run "cmake" … Continue reading CMake vs Make

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