Simon Whatley

On Solving Problems

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge: Saturday, 10th May 2008
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world” – Albert Einstein (26th October 1929).
PHP.ini Permission Problems on Windows Vista: Sunday, 17th February 2008
Installing PHP is a relatively simple task one would think. Indeed it is simple, but configuring the php.ini isn’t; at least not so on Windows Vista! It is infuriating when such a relatively simple task is made inordinately complicated because of the nuances of Vista permissions. What started out as a 5 minute task took a significant number of hours searching for a suitable answer on Google, and not only by myself.
My Work Philosophy: Thursday, 5th March 2009
Okay, so many of the points below aren’t purely my philosophy, but ideas and principles I have picked up along the way throughout my [development] career. Some relate to the UNIX philosophy, or even the Zen of Python, but wherever they’re from, they can be applied to many other domains.