Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

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Vodafone Sure Signal review

A product I'd been vaguely aware of, but have since discovered a lot more about is the Vodafone Sure Signal box.

This little white box uses your home broadband to create a 3G bubble in your own home. It is basically a mini, private 3G mast.

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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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Moving on

In a similar vein to Matt Gifford's recent blog post on 'Moving on' (read more here: http://www.mattgifford.co.uk/moving-on) I have the pleasure of announcing that I'm off to pastures new.

I'd like to thank my current employer TDA, a marketing agency in Cheltenham, for the opportunities working with them as afforded me. It has been a really interesting and diverse period of my career and I've been exposed to some really prominent UK brands, covering a wide range of technologies and market sectors.

Going forward I am extremely happy to have accepted a role at Vodafone as a Technical Architect. I'm really looking forward to working with such a recognised brand, and it's a really exciting prospect working for such a technology focussed company, with like minded individuals.

So to wrap up, 'Thanks to the old, and here's to the new'.

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Using JQuery to check Radio button selections

Ever wanted to check if a user has checked at least one option from a series of radio fields? JQuery makes this super simple, here's how to do it:

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