Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

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Scotch On the Rocks – day two review

Following quickly on the heels of my first article about the 2010 Scotch on the Rocks, is my run down of the second day. I'll apologise now for this being quite so wordy, but I've tried to keep things succinct. I'd also like to say up front how much I enjoyed this years Scotch on the Rocks. It was a great venue, with great speakers, covering a very wide variety of topics.

It was a very intense two day thought explosion, where your left feeling kind of drained, but also with a ridiculous amount of 'development energy'.

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Scotch On the Rocks – day one review

Monday was the first day of the 'Scotch on the Rocks' 2010 Adobe conference (sponsored by Fuzzy Orange). I went along for a couple of reasons. To see what has been happening in the community, what development ideas people were throwing around as it is a bit of a two day think tank, and to put some faces to the Twitter accounts I've been following.

This article is a breakdown of the first days seminars I attended, and some thoughts and considerations about the content on show.

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Nvidia driver fries two of my graphics cards within four days of each other

I have been running two Nvidia 8800GTX graphics cards in a home pc, for about two to two and a half years now, they have been running fine, until last week, when they both went pop, within four days of each other!

This article explains my findings on this, and my ongoing discussions with Nvidia about a potentially fatally flawed driver release, and incredibly badly timed Warranty Expiration.

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Building Intelligent sessions into your framework

Have you ever been logged into an application and had your session timeout, then when you log back in you are returned to a different place altogether?

This article deals with a way to mark where a user was in your application and return them to that location when they log back in. It also allows a user to deep link into an application. IE when they have a bookmarked link instead of being passed to the home page, they are passed through to their original destination.

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