Logging

Stephan Schmidt writes about logging in his latest article. I think he has 7 mostly valid points and even 7 more in an older post, but there is one advice that is missing, which also invalidates one of his points: Use different logging hierarchies Why? Well Stephan writes in the first article: Logging in web [...]

Posted in: Design, Softwareentwicklung by Jens Schauder 3 Comments

Code Coverage for Oracle

I try to minimize the use of database specific programming languages like PL/SQL. It is just annoying to work with a language that is just badly designed and has hardly any serious tool support. It (and the IDEs around it) is lacking in so many ways. All the things I would expect from the most [...]

Posted in: Datenbank, Softwareentwicklung by Jens Schauder 2 Comments

Programming should be Taught just as a Craft

As everybody in the IT blogosphere knows by now Jeff Atwood started quite some discussion with his opinion that there might be too many rules out there for developers to follow. I think the opposite is true. I think the IT industry is still a mess because 90% of the members of this industry do [...]