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Old but gold

This is a collection of links that I took fry my old blog (in Portuguese): Code Like a Girl Idiot Proof Website Software Fable Remember: This Stuff Is Supposed To Be Fun How To Write Unmaintainable Code Hidden Features Of: C C++ Perl and Others

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Writing good log messages

In the last posts I presented general guidelines to improve your logging practices. Today we’ll discuss further about how and what you log. We will focus in some techniques to help you write clear and descriptive log messages.

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A little more about logging

A friend of mine, who read the first article, asked me to elaborate further about good logging practices. Hence, I decide to go over some of them, point the problems and discuss the alternatives. I will try to discuss the items in the order they appeared on the article. To start this series of texts, […]

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The 10 commandments for writing good logs

Given how easy is to log your application flow these days, it comes as no surprise that many developers abuse and misuse them.  There are many anti-patterns that can be applied to logging and this article tries to help you avoid some of them.