Nerd programming post alert.

[larryv]

I had a coding epiphany the other day - kind of a "duh" moment. We've been doing error handling for the applications we've built for at least the last ten years or so. I get hundreds of them a day for just one of my applications. I use them as a general gage of the health of the application. If I start getting ten times as many emails for a

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[gypsywoman816]

How the frack is it that when you explain programming type stuff, I can understand it perfectly, but, when we try to get our internal programmers and engineers to try to explain stuff to the not so technical people on our staff (as we are a publishing company, there's quite a few), it's fucking gibberish?

[larryv]

Thank you :-) I think the ability to explain technical concepts to lay people is one of my strong suits. I know its not something most developers can do. I think its why they keep me around here.

[ronmaxwell]

Great job! That is really cool.

P.s. When did you think of that? Sometimes my "eureka moments" are on the train going home.

[howlingcoyote]

I love Fiddler2, I taught 3 of our 5 programmers at work how to use it.

I learned about something called Elmah recently... you'd have to secure it, and it has a NASTY ...uh... feature where it shows the AUTH_PASSWORD value. But you can figure out the first, and the second is slated for release....soonish.

http://code.google.com/p/elmah/

[larryv]

We used to use ELmah here on one of our products. The application was web based and got a LOT of hits. There were so many errors being reported we had to shut it off because it was just piling on that much more network traffic.