Reason for Great Specs

"A flaw caught in a spec takes 1 minute to fix. A flaw caught during development takes 10 minutes to fix. A flaw caught during testing takes 100 minutes to fix. A flaw caught after release takes...well...let's just say more than 100 minutes."

Reference: www.softwarebyrob.com/articles/47.aspx

Paint.NET Black & White Tip

Layer -> Adjustments -> Black & White

Escaping Characters in HTML

http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/chap06.shtml

New Daily Reads

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
http://www.miketaber.net/
http://www.scottonwriting.net/sowBlog/
http://www.bugbash.net/comic/1.html

Reason to Find the Root Cause of Problems

Someone who fixes a problem but doesn't take the time to find out what caused it is doomed to never become an expert in their field. Experience is not years on the job, it's learning to recognize a problem before it occurs, which can only be done by knowing what causes it in the first place. (Software by Rob: http://www.softwarebyrob.com/articles/Personality_Traits_of_the_Best_Software_Developers.aspx)

java.net.ConnectException Connection Refused

I recently resolved a very frustrating problem (java.net.ConnectException Connection Refused) with Blogger.com and posted the solution to http://blogger-support-issues.blogspot.com/. When I changed my ftp user, the original user had permissions and landed in /wwwroot/blogs/ never seeing /wwwroot/ folders. The issue seems to have cropped up in my archive settings as I'd changed the default publishing settings to: /wwwroot/blogs/blog/ but my archive settings were: /blogs/blog/ which resulted in the error.

Also, I changed my ftp host name from "example.com" to ftp.example.com.