# Dump the old database in its original encoding (latin1 in this example)
mysqldump --default-character-set=latin1 SOURCE_DATABASE > db.sql

# Replace sql code to reflect new encoding (utf8 in this example)
sed -e 's/SET NAMES latin1/SET NAMES utf8/g' -i db.sql
sed -e 's/CHARSET=latin1/CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci/g' -i db.sql

# Import the db.sql into the database (which must be created with the correct new encoding)
mysql --default-character-set=utf8 -u root -p TARGET_DATABASE < db.sql

Of course, you should know what you are doing.

Now you might run into infinite redirect issue if use together with mod_rewrite. Add this line in the mod_rewrite .htaccess file for each folder under /mnt/projects to stop this.

RewriteBase /

Update:
The similar effect can be achieved via mod_rewrite. Put this into /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, or apache2.conf but it needs to be loaded first before virtualhost/conf.d. The point here is to let virtualhost config to override this wildcard.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    UseCanonicalName Off
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/icons/
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.starfall.local$
    RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /mnt/projects/%1/public/$1
</VirtualHost>

You may still need to add “RewriteBase /” in case of infinite redirect.

From what I tested this new method handles:
- allow wildcard request to point to /mnt/projects/SUBDOMAIN_NAME/public
- it doesn’t not interfere with subsequent rewrite rule usually present in .htaccess

This allows to point multiple wildcard domain names (canonical or not) to a particular ip or hostname.

First create a Automatic Proxy Configuration file say wildcard.pac, which is basically a javascript file:

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
    if (dnsDomainIs(host, ".customhost.local")) {
        return "PROXY customhost";
    }

    return "DIRECT";
}

Note:
“.customhost.local” is basically the pattern to detect
The “customhost” in “return “PROXY customhost”;” is whatever solvable hostname you want, or it can be an ip.

You can use this to config multiple local fake domain names for development purpose, pointing them (e.g. project1.myhost.local, project2.myhost.local to an apache server at 192.168.1.2).

Now to load this pac file, each browser/os is slightly different.
Safari/IE/Chrome: use system network setting, just find the Automatic Proxy Configuration and load the pac file just created.
Firefox/Opera: use their own network config in Preferences

To make Lion’s samba share follow symbolic link, you need to modify “ProgramArguments”
from:

<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
     <string>/usr/sbin/smbd</string>
</array>
</code>

to:

<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
     <string>/usr/sbin/smbd</string>
     <string>--no-symlinks</string>
     <string>false</string>
</array>

On remote server (note the “–bare” is important otherwise you won’t be able to push):

mkdir /home/vincent/projects/repo.git
cd /home/vincent/projects/repo.git/
git init --bare

On local, cd into the local repo directory first

git remote add origin ssh://username@remoteserver/home/vincent/projects/repo.git
git push origin master

In future you can just clone:

git clone ssh://username@remoteserver/home/vincent/projects/repo.git

Some notes from reddit:

#6 There is little to no performance difference between a cached selector and chaining. The ONLY difference would be shorter code (less bandwidth used?).

#9 This is just plain wrong. DOM manipulation can be extremely fast if you know what you are doing. He uses this example

The faster way to do this would be

frag = $('<ul id="menu"></ul>');
listItem = $('<li></li>')
for (var i = 1; i < 100; i++) {
  frag.append(listItem.clone().text(i));
}
$('#header').prepend(frag);

#14 Use jQuery’s utility functions
“.each(), for example, relies on anonymous function calls. This can be REALLY slow”

#15 not really much of a performance tip
#16 is REALLY finicky and hard to profile.

git status | grep "modified\|new file" | awk '{print $3}' | while read file; do mkdir -p `dirname deploy/"$file"`; cp $file deploy/$file; done

Or, use this to create the deploy folder for commits done in the last 2 days: (the code may generate some error output saying certain files don’t exist, because it’s trying to copy the files you deleted in commits, they are harmless just too lazy to put check in)

git whatchanged --since "2 days ago" | grep ^: | awk '{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2}' | while read file; do mkdir -p `dirname deploy/"$file"`; cp $file deploy/$file; done

ColorBox

sudo apt-get install python-django libapache2-mod-wsgi python-mysqldb python-setuptools

Virtualhost

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName tang.local
WSGIDaemonProcess snake display-name=%{GROUP}
WSGIProcessGroup snake
WSGIScriptAlias / /mnt/host/snake/apache/django.wsgi

Alias /static  /mnt/host/snake/static
</VirtualHost>

WSGI script

import os
import sys
sys.path.append('/mnt/host')
sys.path.append('/mnt/host/snake')
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'snake.settings'

import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

Note: only need sec=ntlmssp for Mac