The KISS principle (acronym for “Keep It Simple, Stupid”) states that design simplicity should be a key goal and unnecessary complexity avoided. It serves as a useful principle in a wide array of disciplines, such as software development, animation, photography, engineering, and strategic planning. Common variants of the acronym include: “Keep It Sweet & Simple”, and “Keep It Short & Simple”. The form “Keep It Simple, Silly” is sometimes used in situations (for example, explaining the phrase to children) where “stupid” may be perceived as being too harsh.
April 12, 2008
Dont repeat yourself
Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY, also known as Single Point of Truth) is a process philosophy aimed at reducing duplication, particularly in computing. The philosophy emphasizes that information should not be duplicated, because duplication increases the difficulty of change, may decrease clarity, and leads to opportunities for inconsistency.
April 9, 2008
TinyMCE issue with WordPress 2.5 and gZip
I was having a problem trying to get the TinyMCE editor to display when creating/editing posts in my WordPress 2.5 installation. Only the HTML version would display and Firebug would display an error saying: Illegal Character in the file: /wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php?ver=20080327
I read lots of posts with other people having problem with the TinyMCE editor, and eventually I found out that gzip compression may be causing the problem. I turned off gzip compression from the hosting control panel and cleared the javascript cache (/wp-content/updates/js_cache/) by deleting the file(s) in there.
This fixed my issue. Hopefully this will help someone else too.
Accessing Exchange mailboxes from outside the office with Entourage (like RPC over HTTP)
I recently came across a very helpful article that describes how to setup Entourage to access your Exchange emails from outside the office network. This is the equivalent of RPC over HTTP for Outlook.
Keep reading to see the solution.