Graceful Exits

Database design, as an intellectual exercise, can be tremendously satisfying. As one builds up relations and constraints, making your database just rigid enough to support the more intelligent model soon to be layered over it, it’s possible to feel a sense of future-problems-solved: this check will prevent the model from trying to call a service [...]

E-mail-based error reporting, whether from a system specifically designed to provide it (like Nagios) or as a bolt-on to an application or framework, is only as good as the underlying error diagnostics. So when one of our clients’ Coldfusion app sent me a message today with the brief summary “null null”, the server might as [...]

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