Reset your Drupal password without email.

I deal with Drupal sites often, and one of the most often recurring issues is a forgotten/lost password for the admin account. Sometimes, the site isn't yours, and you simply were told the wrong info to log into the site but you have FTP access. Other times, you simply don't want to go through the hassle of sending yourself an e-mail, clicking a reset link, and editing your password through the profile settings page. There has to be an easier, faster way, right? Well, the answer is here.
The best way to deal with this is to make a script that does every bit of the password reset all in one go. The downside to this script is it is incredibly insecure. You will want to name it something funny random, like gudgoin.php or idungiveafk.php, place it in the root directory of the site, and delete it from the server right after using it.

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Output clean JSON data from Twitter API v1.1 using PHP

I was making a mobile app with Tersus (WYSIWYG RAD) as a school project, and I noticed Twitter no longer has an open XML feed. I looked around and most of the Twitter apps I saw were outdated or simply used the Twitter widget (JS only). For that reason, I took a few hours out of my day to develop a workflow for interacting with Twitter in PHP using the TwitterOAuth library, which is a very nice object-oriented abstraction layer for the generic OAuth library (included with previously mentioned library).

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What is FOSS? Why should anyone support it?

TLDR: FOSS FTW!

FOSS is short form of Free Open Source Software. At this point, you may be thinking, "Wait, isn't open source always free?" The answer is simply no. Free is a relative term and can have multiple meanings depending on what context it is used in. In the case of open source projects, you are always free to openly share the source code, but that is the only right you are definitely permitted. Free open source refers to another set of rights, the freedom to redistribute commercial products based on the open source project. It also means being free of viral licensing requirements, like being obligated to share the source code of something that is based on an open source project.

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