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Adam Auckland

I write software, music and technical documentation. I'd like to think I'm a writer of some description...
  • rsync your project to your web server

    First, we need to check you have rsync on your development machine (not your production server). To check, open up a terminal and type

    rsync --version 

    You should get ...

  • Open all files of a type in Sublime Text 2

    The following command will open all .py files in the current directory or subdirectories in sublime.

    find . -name "*.py" -exec sublime {} \; 

    It also assumes sublime is ...

  • A Completely Unscientific Glance at Virtualization

    TechEmpower recently ran an interesting study comparing speeds of different web frameworks over here

    I'm going to ignore the framework comparisons. They've been discussed at length on the Web ...

  • Redirecting into AngularJS for friendly URLs

    If you've enabled the HTML5 history API functionality in AngularJS using

    $locationProvider.html5Mode(true) 

    you will probably notice that when you refresh the page in a browser, you get a ...

  • Building platforms (or designing for the future)

    The following is based on a talk I gave at the Insites Xmas day in December 2012.

    The monolithic Web

    Since the year 2000, web development platforms have become increasingly ...