WordPress local dev tips: DB & plugins

This is one of those things I've struggled with so many times and don't know why I didn't fix sooner myself, but Mark Jaquith offers a brilliant solution to the problem of syncing your local development site with your production server:

http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/wordpress-local-dev-tips/

The key for me is autmoatically disabling plugins you don't want running locally and keeping everything in GIT even your wp-config file...  awesome.