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Just what is 'Best Practice' exactly? |
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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.
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Dissecting business failures: Allowing scope creep from clients |
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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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Why I've had a re-think about auto detecting mobile users |
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A while back now I wrote a short article on how to detect a mobile user by reading the user agent value from their browser (Link: http://www.mccran.co.uk/index.cfm/2010/6/4/Simple-Coldfusion-script-to-detect-if-a-user-is-on-a-Mobile-platform). I've since reversed my stand on doing this for a number of technical and User Experience based reasons.
This blog article is an exploration of those reasons.
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Architectural issues with AJAX requests and user journeys |
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The more I use non standard ways of loading data and online content the more issues I uncover with how users can interact with a platform.
Adopting new technologies to build applications is all well and good but what implications does this bring to bear on your users? How do they apply their normal usage habits to your new and differently architected application?
