Automatically fix rotation of images

My camera stores the orientation of the images in the header, but this is not recognized by most programs.
To automatically fix the image rotations I use:

jhead -autorot

And to recursively rotate all images:

find . -name "*.JPG" -exec jhead -autorot -exonly {} \;

GoDaddy domains with webfaction hosting

In your GoDaddy account select Set Nameservers and then I have specific nameservers for my domains (Documented here)


Enter webfaction's domain name servers (Documented here):
ns1.webfaction.com
ns2.webfaction.com
ns3.webfaction.com
ns4.webfaction.com 


Wait an hour

Downloading data from GAE

As documented here you can download your data into a blob:

appcfg.py download_data --application=[app-id] --filename=[output dump file] --url=http://[app-id].appspot.com/_ah/remote_api

And then upload to another app:
appcfg.py upload_data --application=[app-id] --kind=[kind] --filename=[input dump file]


Or to work with structured data.

First generate the bulkloader file:

appcfg.py create_bulkloader_config --filename=bulkloader.yaml --url=http://[app-id].appspot.com/_ah/remote_api

Set the connectors to CSV

Download the data:

appcfg.py download_data --application=[app-id] --config_file=bulkloader.yaml --filename=[csv file] --db_filename=progress.sql --kind=[which entity]
--db_filename is important for large uploads to avoid re-uploading the same data

Deploying code with rsync

I use rsync to deploy code to my web server:

rsync --recursive --compress \
        --verbose --progress --stats \
        --times --perms --delete \
        --exclude "*~" --exclude "*.pyc"  \
        . login@server:path

This command will transfer the current directory and all sub-directories and files to my server, but only transfer modified files to save time and bandwidth.
verbose, progress, and stats display useful output
times / perms ensure the file timestamps / permissions are the same on my server
delete will delete remote files when deleted locally
exclude temporary files

Convert DVD to AVI

I tried a few programs to burn a DVD and found acidrip works best.

Remember:

• set size to around 1000 for each hour
• turn scale off
• detect the correct crop size
• preview results

Code syntax highlighting

I use this when I need to syntax highlight code snippets:
http://tohtml.com

Writing in Korean

Install ibus, ibus-m17n, ibus-hangul

Restart - I couldn't use ibus in Chrome or choose the Romaji keyboard option until restarting

Ctrl-Space to activate language. Change keyboard to Romaji for English keyboard.

Scim also has a Korean package but I couldn't get it to activate reliably.