Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

25
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2012

Dissecting business failures: Allowing scope creep from clients

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.

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13
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2012

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

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.

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11
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2012

Simple JQuery Google Analytics tracking object

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.

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06
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2012

My natural development pattern - software layer-ification

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.

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