Re: Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:09:05 +0000, rquadling@googlemail.com (Richard Quadling) wrote: >On 9 February 2010 14:20, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 09:19 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: >> >> Richard wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> >> I have extended the standard exception class to send me an email >> >> whenever an exception occurs. >> > >> > I did that once. Once being the operative word... :-) Ended up with >> > tens of thousands of emails one morning. At first I thought... "Wow, >> > maybe my popularity has grown somewhat". But it hadn't. >> >> I have something similar... a cron job that checks the error_log file >> every 10 minutes and sends me the contents if any exist. I also set a >> special header so I can be sure it's not spam and appropriately route it >> into my mail folder maze, Much less spammy :) >> >> Cheers, >> Rob. >> -- >> http://www.interjinn.com >> Application and Templating Framework for PHP >> >> >> Real developers don't have errors in their code; they're undocumented features ;) >> >> Thanks, >> Ash >> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk >> >> > >So, no documentation AND bugs!!! Gee. I really wouldn't want to rely >on that code base! So you don't use (or work with) any Microsoft product?