Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

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How best to approach introducing new development standards into a team

One of the issues I've been faced with is applying a hard and fast set of standards to a team of developers, whilst maintaining a balance of getting work out the door.

I can't just wade into the team with new process and Quality Assurance routines and not expect there to be a few bumps in the road.

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Bulmers Cider using QR codes to track and target landing pages

QR codes have been around for a while now but often people struggle to see any real value in them, or how to use them and obtain measurable results.

This blog article describes how the UK Cider manufacturer Bulmers have added a QR code onto their product labels and are effectively tracking QR scans through to a specific landing page within their site.

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2011

Book review: jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques: Beginners Guide

This is a review of a book that Packt Publishing (http://www.packtpub.com/) have just sent me: JQuery titles, jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques: Beginners Guide.

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JQuery Sortable Drag and Drop lists and a server side AJAX save

I was recently asked this question about creating and using elements with the JQuery drag and drop functions:

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1Shaun, I'd like to be able to drag items (let's say grocery items) onto a list (let's say a grocery list) using JQuery and PHP to process and save the list. I found you drag and drop tutorial but I want the droppable to be in a list form. Is this easy?

This article explains how you can use a few JQuery interactions to create a sortable drag and drop list and save its state to a server side processing template.

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