• Just what is 'Best Practice' exactly?

    Updated: 2012-01-31 17:14:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground about All about me portfolio Some of my work hire me For freelance work ask me A question on formspring contact Send me an email Hide Menu 31 J A N 2012 Just what is Best Practice' exactly Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Best practices I've been an advocate of best practice' for a while now , in any random psychometric test I'll always come out rated as a perfectionist which may go some way as to explaining why I am constantly striving to make whatever process I am involved in either more efficient or generally just a smoother . transaction But some recent musing has left me wondering just what best practice' is When I sat down and really thought about what the term means to me I came up with some surprising . answers When I really

  • Dissecting business failures: Allowing scope creep from clients

    Updated: 2012-01-25 14:24:00
    , , , : : Shaun Mccran My digital playground about All about me portfolio Some of my work hire me For freelance work ask me A question on formspring contact Send me an email Hide Menu 25 J A N 2012 Dissecting business failures : Allowing scope creep from clients Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Best practices Project Management One of the most common forms of business failure that I have the misfortune to witness on a regular basis is the allowance of clients to instigate scope creep within . projects I have never understood how some industries accept scope creep as part of everyday business let me explain what I . mean I present to you a fictional scenario where I am going to buy a new car . I've travelled to my local Ford dealership and seen a car in the showroom that I like .

  • How to make hidden application icons transparent on Mac OS X

    Updated: 2012-01-25 03:10:07
    Geekology All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy . actors 5.5kmph in morning traffic . I console myself with the thought that 200 years ago on a horse-drawn carriage , I'd be . speeding Mon , 23 Jan 2012 07:59 Home Articles Blog Videos Subscribe This is a website by Willem van Zyl I'm a project manager , software developer , Apple evangelist and geek from South Africa I'm passionate about web and mobile application development , usability , productivity , physics , astronomy , science fiction and . fantasy If you would like to contact me , message me on Twitter or send me an email How to make hidden application icons transparent on Mac OS X 14 Aug 2009 In Mac OS X , clicking on the red button in an application's titlebar or clicking on the application's name in the

  • How to change the format of screenshots saved to your Desktop on Mac OS X

    Updated: 2012-01-25 03:10:07
    Mac OS X has several options for taking screenshots with shortcut keys or taking screenshots from the command line. By default these screenshots are copied to the clipboard or saved to your Desktop as PNG files. You can set these saved screenshots to one of several different filetypes using one of the commands below. To change the default screenshot filetype, open a new Terminal window and enter a command like this (replacing "{filetype}" with your preferred filetype): defaults write com.apple.screencapture type {filetype} ... then log out and back in to activate the changes. Permitted filetypes are "jpg", "png", "bmp", "gif", and "tiff".

  • Xcode and Objective-C resources for iPhone Application Developers

    Updated: 2012-01-25 03:10:06
    Geekology 1 1 3 for very large values of 1' 5.5kmph in morning traffic . I console myself with the thought that 200 years ago on a horse-drawn carriage , I'd be . speeding Mon , 23 Jan 2012 07:59 Home Articles Blog Videos Subscribe This is a website by Willem van Zyl I'm a project manager , software developer , Apple evangelist and geek from South Africa I'm passionate about web and mobile application development , usability , productivity , physics , astronomy , science fiction and . fantasy If you would like to contact me , message me on Twitter or send me an email Xcode and Objective-C resources for iPhone Application Developers 02 Jul 2009 If you'd like to become an iPhone Application Developer there are several resources available online and offline to get you . started There are two

  • How to uninstall Google Software Update on Mac OS X

    Updated: 2012-01-25 03:10:00
    Geekology I would love to change the world , but they won't give me the source . code 5.5kmph in morning traffic . I console myself with the thought that 200 years ago on a horse-drawn carriage , I'd be . speeding Mon , 23 Jan 2012 07:59 Home Articles Blog Videos Subscribe This is a website by Willem van Zyl I'm a project manager , software developer , Apple evangelist and geek from South Africa I'm passionate about web and mobile application development , usability , productivity , physics , astronomy , science fiction and . fantasy If you would like to contact me , message me on Twitter or send me an email How to uninstall Google Software Update on Mac OS X 02 Feb 2009 After trying out the Macintosh versions of Picasa and Google Quick Search Box the Google Software Updater keeps popping

  • How to compile and install command line tools on Mac OS X with MacPorts

    Updated: 2012-01-25 03:10:00
    Geekology I would love to change the world , but they won't give me the source . code 5.5kmph in morning traffic . I console myself with the thought that 200 years ago on a horse-drawn carriage , I'd be . speeding Mon , 23 Jan 2012 07:59 Home Articles Blog Videos Subscribe This is a website by Willem van Zyl I'm a project manager , software developer , Apple evangelist and geek from South Africa I'm passionate about web and mobile application development , usability , productivity , physics , astronomy , science fiction and . fantasy If you would like to contact me , message me on Twitter or send me an email How to compile and install command line tools on Mac OS X with MacPorts 01 Feb 2009 The MacPorts Project provides software installation , updating , and removal functionality to OS X

  • Handling Keyboard Shortcuts Within Modular JavaScript Application Architecture

    Updated: 2012-01-20 21:40:00
    Yesterday, when using Gmail, I started to think about keyboard shortcuts. Specifically, I started to think about how keyboard shortcuts get routed within a modular JavaScript application architecture. If I have a module that can respond to the keyboard - but, that module is not supposed to "know" about the document at large - how does it listen for key-based events? I can think of two ways: 1) Either the application listens for keys and then directly invokes methods on encapsulated modules; o ... ead More raquo;

  • Using An IFrame To Override document.write() Inside A DOM (Document Object Model) Sandbox

    Updated: 2012-01-19 15:49:00
    Last week, I talked about loading GitHub Gist content after the DOM (Document Object Model) had loaded . This was a somewhat complex operation since the remote Gist Script tag uses document.write() in order to inject the Gist content into the calling document. If document.write() is called after the parent document has been "closed," the write() call will overwrite the ent ... ead More raquo;

  • Hosting Spotlight: PowerDNN Control Suite

    Updated: 2012-01-19 00:21:49
    : Register Login Home Projects jQuery WebTour DotNetNuke News Home Tuesday , January 31, 2012 Home Projects jQuery WebTour DotNetNuke News Hosting Spotlight : PowerDNN Control Suite Jan 19 Written : by Joe Brinkman 1 19 2012 7:21 AM The DotNetNuke community is composed of individuals and organizations that serve a wide range of needs for DotNetNuke users . 160 Whether it is the skin designer , module developer or web hoster , every part of the DotNetNuke ecosystem helps make it easy for our users to take full advantage of the DotNetNuke platform to run their website . 160 In this series of posts I’ll be focusing on the hosters in our community and looking at some capabilities that make each of them . unique PowerDNN has made quite a name for themselves in our community and like any good

  • Trying To Mimic LET Functionality In JavaScript Using Self-Executing Functions

    Updated: 2012-01-17 15:31:00
    Last night, I was listening to the Lately In JavaScript podcast . Among the many items discussed, one topic that was brought up was the emergence of the LET keyword in the next version of ECMAScript (the language on which JavaScript is based). LET allows for block-level variable binding; so, while the VAR keyword allows for function-level variable binding, LET allows variables to be define ... ead More raquo;

  • What should I study in college to get started with ColdFusion?

    Updated: 2012-01-13 17:16:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground about All about me portfolio Some of my work hire me For freelance work ask me A question on formspring contact Send me an email Hide Menu 13 J A N 2012 What should I study in college to get started with ColdFusion Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Social General Interest The other day I got a comment on a Blog article from a reader . The reader asked What should I study in college to get started with ColdFusion On one hand this is a massively open question , on the other I'd quite like to expand it even . further I never aimed for ColdFusion development whilst in education . I always wanted to be in I.T . developing applications but I had no inclination towards any particular development . language I'd guess that computer sciences would

  • Simple JQuery Google Analytics tracking object

    Updated: 2012-01-11 17:07:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground about All about me portfolio Some of my work hire me For freelance work ask me A question on formspring contact Send me an email Hide Menu 11 J A N 2012 Simple JQuery Google Analytics tracking object Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Google Javascript JQuery Each time I build a new project I find myself adding in several common objects from a variety of languages . One of those objects is a JavaScript based Google Analytics tracking . object Rather than embedding individual page tracking or event tracking within each element I prefer to create a JQuery listener to pick up any predefined classes or Id's and action them according to rules contained in the object . This means I don't have a load of inline analytics code to maintain and I

  • Using jQuery Deferred To Create Compound Objects From Multiple Asynchronous Data Sources

    Updated: 2012-01-11 16:02:00
    As of now, all of my experimentation with modular JavaScript application architecture has been exclusive to client-side code. That is, it involves Views and Controllers, but no real sense of any Model that is tied to a persistent data store. As I've started to think about experimenting with the Model facet of client-side MVC (Model-View-Contr ... ead More raquo;

  • My natural development pattern - software layer-ification

    Updated: 2012-01-06 17:33:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground about All about me portfolio Some of my work hire me For freelance work ask me A question on formspring contact Send me an email Hide Menu 06 J A N 2012 My natural development pattern software layer-ification Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Software Architecture Whilst reflecting on some of the projects I'd been through in 2011 I noticed a pattern that became more and more prominent as the year wore . on All of my project functionality was naturally splitting itself into independent service . layers All the projects I've architected for the last few years have followed one of several design patterns , whether they are project management or development patterns they have all followed similar principles . Similarly I am intimately

  • Book review: JQuery Mobile – a first look

    Updated: 2012-01-05 11:31:00
    , , , : : Shaun Mccran My digital playground about All about me portfolio Some of my work hire me For freelance work ask me A question on formspring contact Send me an email Hide Menu 05 J A N 2012 Book review : JQuery Mobile a first look Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Internet Explorer Mobile Javascript JQuery I was recently sent a copy of JQuery Mobile by Packt publishing for review . I've dabbled in the JQuery Mobile development language a fair amount , so I was interested to see what this book could teach me that may be different from the information out there in the . community I was quite interested to see how the author would approach a subject as broad as JQuery Mobile as it is a fairly diverse subject . The book starts off by setting the scene of what JQuery Mobile is

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