As we hopefully all agree good logging is a great asset. Yet I come across aweful styles of logging (and sometimes produce them myself). So I guess it is time for a small Antipattern collection. No Logging at All Exception Handler without any code are an obvious example of this, but reading a configuration file [...]
In about one of two projects the customer comes up with the requirement of ‘historization’ of data. And more often then not this lead to an unholy back and forth of discussions, prototypes and complaining. The reason for this as far as I can tell is: This is not a well defined requirement. It can [...]
Nearly everybody does some kind of logging in their application, but few do it in a well structured way. I’d like to point out some practices that I consider helpful in order to get the most out of your logging. This post will also work as a handout for my talk about logging at the [...]