Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

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Open Source Scotland Digital festival

Just saw on the Twitter-vine that there is an Open Source Scotland digital festival happening next year. It happens on the 13th-14th of April and looks like it is being pitched as a Digital Festival.

The speaker list is looking pretty impressive and there is a Twitter hash tag already #oss2012.

You can read more, and buy tickets here:

http://open-source-scotland.com/2012/

09
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2011

Ever had this conversation with a customer?

I saw this in my inbox this morning and just had to share it, it bears a striking resemblance to some of the conversations I've had with external and internal departments.

Made me chuckle so I thought I'd share it.

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07
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Removing the recommendation videos from Youtube after playback

You know when you watch a video on Youtube there are recommendations that follow it? Well you can turn those recommendations off if you want.

Here's how.

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Why I've had a re-think about auto detecting mobile users

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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