{"id":605,"date":"2011-10-20T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T10:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2011-10-24T07:35:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T05:35:05","slug":"it-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/10\/it-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"IT &#8216;tips&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few &#8216;IT&#8217; tips<\/p>\n<p>1. When you are looking into a problem &#8211; always check the obvious things first<\/p>\n<p>2. If you cannot solve a problem yourself &#8211; read the manual<\/p>\n<p>3. Don&#8217;t trust users to explain &#8216;what&#8217; the problem is. Those are just symptoms<\/p>\n<p>4. Remember, computers &#8216;can&#8217; make mistakes &#8211; very fast ones these days!<\/p>\n<p>5. Out of memory errors usually are not because of memory problems&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>6. Never give users more functionality than they need &#8211; otherwise you have to maintain that too!<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0 The best debugging tool is a message box (alert in js) &#8211; just don&#8217;t forget to take them out again!<\/p>\n<p>and some general wishdom&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. Never assume things will always go well. They generally have a habit not to<\/p>\n<p>2. Never underestimate the power or impact of users doing stupid things<\/p>\n<p>3. You only get 2 kinds of hard drives&#8230; those that have failed, and those that soon will. Apparently these days this rule applies to most hardware components&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>4. Crysis wasn&#8217;t created in one day, but you can play through it in a day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few &#8216;IT&#8217; tips 1. When you are looking into a problem &#8211; always check the obvious things first 2. If you cannot solve a problem yourself &#8211; read the manual 3. Don&#8217;t trust users to explain &#8216;what&#8217; the problem &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/10\/it-tips\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[40,81,24],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-fun","tag-stuff","tag-tip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}